Treasure Island On San Francisco Bay
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San Francisco S Treasure Island
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Author : Jason Pipes
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2007
San Francisco S Treasure Island written by Jason Pipes and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Reclaimed from a sandy shoal in the San Francisco Bay, Treasure Island is a man-made creation built in 1936 during the same era that saw the construction of such California icons as the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay Bridge. Situated next to rocky Yerba Buena Island, it was initially planned to serve as the location of the new San Francisco airport, but its first official duty was to host the 1939 World's Fair. The island's amazing and varied history includes the Golden Gate International Exposition, a U.S. naval station, a Pan-American seaplane base, mock nuclear tests, tragic fires, and many more dramatic events since it rose from the bay. In addition, a number of historic structures remain on Treasure Island, largely frozen in time since they were constructed in 1936.
A Cartograph Of Treasure Island In San Francisco Bay
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Author : Ruth Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
A Cartograph Of Treasure Island In San Francisco Bay written by Ruth Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Description: A bird's-eye-view, pictorial map of the fair. Includes index to buildings.
Urban Reinventions
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Author : Lynne Horiuchi
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2017-09-30
Urban Reinventions written by Lynne Horiuchi and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-30 with History categories.
When it was built in 1937, Treasure Island was considered to be one of the largest man-made islands in the world. Located in the middle of San Francisco Bay, the 400-acre island was constructed out of dredged bay mud in a remarkable feat of Depression-era civil engineering by the US Army Corps of Engineers. Its alluring name is an allusion to the fabled remnants of the California Gold Rush found in the ocean sediment that formed the island. This collection of essays tells the story of San Francisco’s Treasure Island—an artificial, disconnected island that has paradoxically been central to the city’s urban ambitions. Conceived as a site for San Francisco’s first airport in an age of automobile and air transport, Treasure Island hosted the Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) in 1939 and 1940, celebrating the completion of the Golden Gate and the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridges. With particular focus on Asia and Latin America, the GGIE promoted peace, harmony, and commerce in the Pacific. Treasure Island’s planned use as an airport was scuttled when World War II abruptly reversed the exposition’s message of Pacific unity, and the US government developed Treasure Island and the adjacent Yerba Buena Island into a naval training and transfer station, which processed 4,500,000 military personnel on their way to the Pacific theater. In the midst of a twenty-first-century high-tech boom and in one of the most expensive real-estate markets in the world, the city of San Francisco and its developers have proposed an ambitious model of military base reuse and green urbanism—a new eco-city of about 19,000 residents on Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island. The project is synonymous with a growing global trend toward large-scale, capital-intensive land developments envisioned around ideas of sustainability and spectacular place making. Seen against the successive history of development, future visions for Treasure Island are part of a process of building and erasure that Horiuchi and Sankalia call urban reinventions. This is a process of radical change in which artificial, detached, and delimited sites such as Treasure Island provide an ideal plane for tabula rasa planning driven by property, capital, and state control. With essays by contributors well known for their interdisciplinary work, Urban Reinventions demonstrates how a single site may be interpreted in multiple ways: as an artificial island, world’s fair site, military installation, a semi-derelict relic of past lives, a toxic site of nuclear waste, and a future eco-city and major real estate development. The volume offers a wide spectrum of critiques of race, imperialism, gendered Orientalism, military land use, property capital exchange, new eco-cities, sustainability, and waste as a byproduct of development. The book will be of interest to general readers as well as teachers, scholars, and practitioners in the fields of geography, architecture, city planning, urban design, history, environmental studies, American studies, Asian studies, and military history, among others.
Treasure Island
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Author : Leonard Warner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Treasure Island written by Leonard Warner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Golden Gate International Exposition categories.
Treasure Island San Francisco Bay Calif Hearing On The Navy S Current And Prospective Occupancy Of Treasure Island May 27 1943
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on navasl affairs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1943
Treasure Island San Francisco Bay Calif Hearing On The Navy S Current And Prospective Occupancy Of Treasure Island May 27 1943 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on navasl affairs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1943 with categories.
Treasure Island On San Francisco Bay
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939
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Treasure Island On San Francisco Bay
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Author : Chicago and North Western Railway Company
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939
Treasure Island On San Francisco Bay written by Chicago and North Western Railway Company and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with Golden Gate International Exposition categories.
San Francisco Bay Region Ship Homeporting Treasure Island Naval Station
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
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Treasure Island On San Francisco Bay
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Author : Southern Pacific Company
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939
Treasure Island On San Francisco Bay written by Southern Pacific Company and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with Exhibitions categories.
Brochure promoting travel to the San Francisco World's Fair by way of the Northern Pacific Railway.
Treasure Island
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Author : New York Central Railroad Company
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1940
Treasure Island written by New York Central Railroad Company and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1940 with Golden Gate International Exposition categories.