## Metadata * Author: [[John King]] * ASIN: B0BWL4LZL1 * ISBN: 1324020326 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BWL4LZL1 ## Highlights The classical look was inspired by a twelfth-century bell tower in Seville, Spain, — location: [70](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=70) ^ref-55403 --- They also showed how automobiles had become synonymous with the American way of life, glorifying individual convenience over shared communal landscapes — location: [82](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=82) ^ref-1398 --- San Francisco’s Embarcadero has been recast as a lifestyle zone. — location: [95](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=95) ^ref-55646 --- San Francisco mayor Art Agnos in 1990 staked his political future on tearing down the Embarcadero Freeway that had been damaged in an earthquake the year before—and alienated so many car-dependent voters that he was defeated when he ran for reelection. — location: [103](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=103) ^ref-38587 --- American newcomers after the Gold Rush stole thousands of acres in the city from Mexican Californians, who had been promised the right to continued property ownership in the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War. They moved onto the contested land, declared it to be their own, and then leveraged courtroom delays and confusing legal processes to outlast their victims. — location: [271](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=271) ^ref-45360 --- The mausoleum’s setting was the high establishment confines of Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, — location: [393](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=393) ^ref-27253 --- “Spite politics — location: [565](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=565) ^ref-50865 --- “nowhere in the world has nature presented such an admirable site” for a grand suspension bridge. — location: [1120](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=1120) ^ref-63311 --- Bay Area artists and writers signed an ad that declared, “The Golden Gate is one of nature’s perfect pictures—let’s not disfigure it.” — location: [1130](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=1130) ^ref-60033 --- It’s not as if there were no competing options: the city that same year asked voters to approve a $50 million bond to build a subway below Market Street and provide an alternative to clogged roadways. Voters said no. — location: [1234](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=1234) ^ref-30317 --- The general idea of world trade centers dated back at least to the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, where, even as the deadliest war in history neared, a building was devoted to the theme of “World Peace through World Trade.” The end of World War II seemed to signal that such centers’ moment had come, and civic leaders saw one as a way to reaffirm San Francisco as the trading gateway between the United States and the Pacific Rim. — location: [1399](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=1399) ^ref-38286 --- His chosen city’s residents “can no longer sit quietly and ruminate on past glories,” he wrote in 1948’s The San Francisco Book. “The scenery? Beautiful, but no scenery can be quite as beautiful as a home to see it from.” — location: [1422](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=1422) ^ref-32855 --- Cars were the future of urban movement, so a metropolis like San Francisco must accept car supremacy if it had any hope of long-term prosperity. — location: [1522](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=1522) ^ref-40495 --- “an ideal place for a poet and artist to live, especially one who considered himself a kind of expatriate,” in the words of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, — location: [1685](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=1685) ^ref-49809 --- “In the Eastern states, you feel two-dimensional,” Alan Watts, — location: [1697](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=1697) ^ref-3867 --- “San Francisco reminds you that you have a third dimension as well.” — location: [1698](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=1698) ^ref-62572 --- Orchestrated product launches were old hat to the fifty-nine-year-old Magnin, who had turned one of his family’s department stores, Joseph Magnin, into a thirty-two-store West Coast success known for its chic anticipation of fashion trends. — location: [1717](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=1717) ^ref-56329 --- “a continuous world’s fair.” — location: [1731](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=1731) ^ref-46986 --- and a big reason was that Roth and his design team grasped the changing nature of what drew people to San Francisco: they wanted to feel like they were part of a continuum, where new sensations and experiences didn’t clash with what came before. — location: [1851](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=1851) ^ref-65321 --- “Some people seem to think the waterfront should be phased out and devoted to rose gardens,” fumed Morris Weisberger, head of the unions’ Maritime Trades Council. “This, to me, is silly. The waterfront built San Francisco.” — location: [1877](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=1877) ^ref-54816 --- Yet the very shape that repelled so many people is what made Pereira’s pyramid iconic once the shock wore off. — location: [1910](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=1910) ^ref-6682 --- Rose Pak—a vocal supporter during the 1987 campaign who had pull with neighborhood voters—would meet with him privately and insist the neighborhood’s visitor-driven economy would die without easy freeway access. — location: [2248](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=2248) ^ref-34378 --- Inside, the ground floor of the space renovated by the Port in 1962 held parking spaces for agency vehicles, — location: [2328](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=2328) ^ref-19641 --- Once the travelers returned home, plans changed: they decided to push the retail spaces ten feet into the central passage, narrowing it, banishing glass walls wherever possible and instead securing the front of each storefront or stall with artful metal grills. — location: [2461](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=2461) ^ref-48913 --- The building sits directly on the foundation’s concrete slab, so there’s no basement or crawl space. The only way to add plumbing for shops and restaurants was for workers to climb into rowboats with their tools and head beneath the building at the lowest possible tide, day or night. Using floodlights to guide them, and ropes to steady their boats amid the ricocheting tides, workers would drill into the peak of each groined vault, where the concrete was “only” three feet thick. Then, workers hustled to get as much done as they could before tides rose too high. The pipes had to be stainless steel so that salt water wouldn’t corrode them—and tough enough to not be damaged too much by flotsam and jetsam swept in from the bay. — location: [2523](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=2523) ^ref-4163 --- linger, — location: [2619](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=2619) ^ref-30383 --- The powerfully composed clocktower was inspired by the Giralda bell tower of Spain’s Seville Cathedral. — location: [2664](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=2664) ^ref-25002 --- This explains the new plaza’s location. The elevated zone is calibrated to meet the high end of anticipated water levels through at least 2070: the bay edge along the walk includes a solid concrete — location: [2940](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=2940) ^ref-22565 --- voters banned hotels in 1990, and the state’s Bay Plan from 1968 bans housing. — location: [3177](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=3177) ^ref-63089 --- Michele Meany thought of to Konte. — location: [3296](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=3296) ^ref-8359 --- the Chrysler looks better than ever. — location: [3381](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BWL4LZL1&location=3381) ^ref-53139 ---