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Title: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's Proposal for the Golden Gateway site plan (Raster Image)
Contributors:- Raster data
- 2019
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. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. (2019). Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's Proposal for the Golden Gateway site plan (Raster Image). Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/qc346fc1989 This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.
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Title: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's Proposal for the Golden Gateway (Raster Image)
Contributors:- Raster data
- 2019
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.
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Title: Map of Boston and vicinity
Contributors:- Not specified
- 1890
Summary: Indexed to depots, hotels, churches, theatres, and prominent buildings and institutions. North oriented to the upper left. 34 x 28 centimeters
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Title: Map of the State of Minnesota
Contributors:- Not specified
- 1874
Summary: This copy issued as double page spread (no. XIX, XX) of an atlas.; Shows county boundaries as of 1870. 50 x 70 centimeters
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Title: Map of Michigan and Wisconsin.
Contributors:- Not specified
- 1874
Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. From: American household and commercial atlas of the world. No. 15-16. 1 map: hand col.; 53 x 75 cm
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Title: Northern Georgia, ca. 1864 (Raster Image)
Contributors:- Raster data
- 2013
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
- Merrill, W. E. (William Emery), 1837-1891.
- Margedant, Wm. C. (William C.)
- United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers.
Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Part of northern Georgia : compiled under the direction of Capt. Wm. E. Merrill, chief, Top'l Eng'r, D.C. It was published ca. 1864. Scale [1:253,440]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Georgia West State Plane NAD 1983 (Fipszone 1002) coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, roads, railroads, and more. Relief shown by hachures. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.
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Title: Map of the Ohio River, reduced from the following surveys: 1837-8, Lieut. Sanders, U.S. Eng'rs, Pittsburgh to Letart, 234 miles, 1844, C.A. Fuller, U.S. civ. eng'r, Letart to Clipper Mills, 37 miles, 1867-68, W.M. Roberts, U.S. civ. eng'r, Clipper Mills to Cairo, 696 miles, with additions & corrections from later surveys
Contributors:- Nautical charts
- 1881
Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Publication date of Sept. 14, 1881 supplied by U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers. 52 maps on 38 sheets. Maps made under the direction of Major W.E. Merrill, Corps of Engineers, by C. Moser. Imprint: [Washington, D.C. , 1881] Dimensions: on sheets 49 x 73 cm