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are there any good books on the 20th-century history of San Francisco? particularly the city-planning, infrastructure, all the nerdy stuff.

#1 5:11am Mar 22nd 2012 via YoruFukurou

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@mattb ask @enf perhaps? @leyink has a book called something like The City and the Grid that's somewhat impressionistic but interesting.

#2 5:31am Mar 22nd 2012 via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to mattb

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@paulmison la grille sur les collines? @aaronofmontreal mentioned that one.

#3 5:32am Mar 22nd 2012 via YoruFukurou in reply to paulmison

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@paulmison @mattb @leyink Maybe it's _The Grid Meets the Hills_ (amazon.com/San-Francisco-…)?

#4 5:48am Mar 22nd 2012 via web in reply to paulmison

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@paulmison @mattb @leyink The only account I know from inside the Planning Dept is Jacobs's _Making City Planning Work_ amazon.com/Making-City-Pl…

#5 5:49am Mar 22nd 2012 via web in reply to paulmison

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@paulmison @mattb For unrealized schemes my favorite is Visionary San Francisco amazon.com/Visionary-San-…

#6 5:51am Mar 22nd 2012 via web in reply to paulmison

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@paulmison @mattb From the 1950s optimism perspective there is Mel Scott's _The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in Perspective_

#7 5:55am Mar 22nd 2012 via web in reply to paulmison

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@mattb I'll pull up my greater biblio of SF history tomes, but there is a musty wiki at foundsf.org that is crammed with goodies.

#8 5:56am Mar 22nd 2012 via web in reply to mattb

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@neb nice link, thank you.

#9 5:57am Mar 22nd 2012 via Twitter for iPad in reply to neb

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@mattb Have you seen Rebecca Solnit's "Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas"?

#10 5:58am Mar 22nd 2012 via Twitter for Mac in reply to mattb

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@enf @paulmison @mattb Yes that's it. I found it at a Glen Park bookstore.

#11 5:58am Mar 22nd 2012 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to enf

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@mattb @paulmison Anne Moudon's _Built for Change_ is good for the 1970s code changes trying to recover the old patterns that had been lost

#12 5:58am Mar 22nd 2012 via web in reply to mattb

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@mattb Go to the Prelinger library.

#13 5:59am Mar 22nd 2012 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to mattb

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@mattb off the top of my head: "Imperial SF", "Lost SF", the resources at SPUR, William Stout, and the California History series by Starr.

#14 5:59am Mar 22nd 2012 via web in reply to mattb

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@leyink @paulmison @mattb I got my copy at William Stout Architectural Books on Montgomery if anyone else is looking for it.

#15 5:59am Mar 22nd 2012 via web in reply to leyink

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@paulmison @mattb For transit stuff there is The White Front Cars of San Francisco/The People's Railway/Inside Muni

#16 6:01am Mar 22nd 2012 via web in reply to paulmison

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@mattb The history center might have recommendations? They have things like: sfpl.org/index.php?pg=2… /via Stacy Kozakavich househistories.wordpress.com

#17 6:01am Mar 22nd 2012 via web in reply to mattb

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@paulmison @mattb Lawrence Halprin wrote what he was trying to do w/ Justin Herman Plaza, Ghirardelli square, etc in _Cities_ and _Freeways_

#18 6:03am Mar 22nd 2012 via web in reply to paulmison

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@mattb Also check Green Apple Books on Clement Street, they have a SF history section upstairs w/ good finds

#19 6:04am Mar 22nd 2012 via Twitter for Mac in reply to mattb

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@enf thanks for all the suggestions. Looks like I have a lot to look up.

#20 6:34am Mar 22nd 2012 via Twitter for iPad in reply to enf

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@mattb Hope I wasn't too overwhelming! I can talk about this stuff endlessly.

#21 6:35am Mar 22nd 2012 via web in reply to mattb

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@enf when I lived in Berlin I learnt about the city's history through books like amazon.com/Ghosts-Berlin-… - blends architecture and sociology.

#22 6:39am Mar 22nd 2012 via Twitter for iPad in reply to enf

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