Title: Leiken Enterprises's Proposal for Golden Gateway, Site Plan, ground level (Raster Image)
- Raster data
- 2019
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Stanford)
Dates
- Issued: 2019
- Coverage: 1963
Publishers
- Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis
Summary
The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency held a design competition for the Golden Gateway Redevelopment site. This 51-acre area had been home to a large produce market, which was run by many Italian Americans who lived in the North Beach neighborhood. This plan is part of the Leiken Enterprises's entry into the competition. This project traces the history of urban planning in San Francisco, placing special emphasis on unrealized schemes. Rather than using visual material simply to illustrate outcomes, Imagined San Francisco uses historical plans, maps, architectural renderings, and photographs to show what might have been. By enabling users to layer a series of urban plans, the project presents the city not only as a sequence of material changes, but also as a contingent process and a battleground for political power. Savvy institutional actors--like banks, developers, and many public officials--understood that in some cases to clearly articulate their interests would be to invite challenges. That means that textual sources like newspapers and municipal reports are limited in what they can tell researchers about the shape of political power. Urban plans, however, often speak volumes about interests and dynamics upon which textual sources remain silent. Mortgage lenders, for example, apparently thought it unwise to state that they wished to see a poor neighborhood cleared, to be replaced with a freeway onramp. Yet visual analysis of planning proposals makes that interest plain. So in the process of showing how the city might have looked, Imagined San Francisco also shows how political power actually was negotiated and exercised. Sidney Leiken Enterprises and Theo G. Meyer and Sons. (2019). Leiken Enterprises's Proposal for Golden Gateway, Site Plan, ground level (Raster Image). Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/xh797zx2465 This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.
Subjects
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- City planning
- Imagery and Base Maps
- Planning and Cadastral
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-122.4093967, -122.3858514, 37.8024156, 37.7899663)
- Geometry: BBOX (-122.4093967, -122.3858514, 37.8024156, 37.7899663)
Provider
Stanford
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Sidney Leiken Enterprises, Theo G. Meyer and Sons. Leiken Enterprises's Proposal for Golden Gateway, Site Plan, ground level (Raster Image). Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Raster data. https://purl.stanford.edu/xh797zx2465
Format
GeoTIFF
Languages
- English