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A Negotiated Landscape examines the transformation of San Francisco's iconic waterfront from the eve of its decline in 1950 to the turn of the millennium. What was once a major shipping port is now best known for leisure and entertainment. To understand this landscape Jasper Rubin not only explores the built environment but also the major forces that have been at work in its redevelopment. While factors such as new transportation technology and economic restructuring have been essential to the process and character of the waterfront's transformation, the impact of local, grassroots efforts by planners, activists, and boosters have been equally critical. The first edition of A Negotiated Landscape won the 2012 prize for best book in planning history from the International Planning History Society. Much has changed in the five years since that edition was published. For this second edition, Rubin provides a new concluding chapter that updates the progress of planning on San Francisco's waterfront and examines debates over the newest visions for its development.

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• List of Abbreviations(p. xi)
• Acknowledgments(p. xiii)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• 1 Oceans Apart: The San Francisco Waterfront Now and Then(p. 21)
• 2 A Sea Change(p. 54)
• 3 In the Absence of Plans: Grand Schemes of the 1950s and 1960s(p. 94)
• 4 Don't Fill Me In: The Rise of Regulation and the Decline of Modernist Visions(p. 132)
• 5 In Local Hands: New Pressures of the 1970s(p. 161)
• 6 The Best Laid Plans(p. 178)
• 7 Questionable Results: The Northern Waterfront in the 1970s and 1980s(p. 207)
• 8 A Waterfront Planned: The 1990s and the New Millennium(p. 247)
• 9 Whose Waterfront?(p. 269)
• Notes(p. 329)
• Index(p. 377)

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San Francisco's location adjacent to one of the "deepest natural channels in North America" gave its maritime expansion early importance. The book begins in 1950, with San Francisco as a major port. Port development was subsequently impacted, first by lack of space to accommodate containerization in the 1960s and next by the advent of 1970s environmental laws, which brought a proliferation of uncoordinated permitting authorities and regulations. The author traces a mind-bending sequence of official plans, controversies, and battles among groups associated with waterfront-related activities, housing, and commercial and recreational developments. Beyond natural limitations, "a mixture of governmental hubris, poor strategic decision making and, most critically, complex development politics hampered San Francisco's ability to reinvent its waterfront." The book will mainly interest San Francisco residents and urban planning specialists, but its minutely detailed treatment (well illustrated with maps and pictures) covers the evolution of planning, land-use policy, and environmental regulation over a 50-year period. After a somewhat turgid introduction, the book's narrative is often enlivened with vivid descriptions. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals; general readers. --Frank T. Manheim, George Mason University

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Jasper Rubin is associate professor of urban studies and planning at San Francisco State University.