City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco

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Figure 1a. [top] “I’ve lived my life so that I can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell.” George Woolf (1898–1972), first president, Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment. Photo, Ira Nowinski. Figure 1b. [bottom] Eviction of International Hotel residents, midnight, August 4, 1977. Four hundred police and sheriff’s deputies confronted two thousand defenders of the tenants. Photo, Rachelle Resnick. Figure 2. Mr. Bream, Joyce Hotel (torn down for Yerba Buena Center), 1971. Photo, Ira Nowinski. Figure 3. Mendelsohn House (Robert Herman, architect), TODCO’s 189-unit low-income housing development for seniors, across from Moscone Center and adjacent to Museum Parc, luxury apartments; named for TOOR’s second president , Peter Mendelsohn. Photo, ©Richard Barnes. Figure 4. Bust of Mayor George Moscone (in office 1976–78); artist Robert Arneson. Photo, M. Lee Fatheree, courtesy of Foster and Monique Goldstrom, Oakland, California. Figure 5. San Francisco’s diversity: homeless man in front of Moscone Center. Photo, Gary Fong, courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle. Figure 6. “San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein put on a convention hat and said ‘Whoopee!’ this morning after the announcement by Democratic National Committee officials that San Francisco had been selected as the site of the Democratic National Convention in 1984” (Peninsula Times-Tribune, April 21, 1983). Photo, Joe Melena, courtesy of the Peninsula Times-Tribune. Figure 7a. [top] Yerba Buena Gardens: carousel center, Moscone Convention Center behind it, Sony Metreon on left, Marriott Hotel looming above it. Photo, Perretti & Park Pictures, courtesy of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency. Figure 7b. [bottom] “We’re not blocking traffic—we are traffic” (Critical Mass biker). San Francisco’s monthly Critical Mass bike ride; Howard Street, passing Moscone Convention Center. Photo, Chris Carlsson. Figure 8. Response to gentrification in the Mission District. Photo, Frederic Stout, stoutfoto. Figure 9a. [top] Cartoon by Ken Alexander, ©San Francisco Examiner; used with permission. Figure 9b. [left] Official seal, San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (“Everyone wants to live in the city of San Francisco.”) Figure 10. San Francisco mayor Willie Brown (1996–2004).“Willie Brown’s life is about a black man being smarter, harder working and better skilled, and rising to tremendous power in an entirely white world” (John Jacobs, McClatchy Newspapers). Photo, Dennis DeSilva, courtesy of the mayor’s press office. ...