Making the Mission: Planning and Ethnicity in San Francisco

by Ocean Howell

In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, residents of the city's iconic Mission District bucked the city-wide development plan, defiantly announcing that in their neighborhood, they would be calling the shots. Ever since, the Mission has become known as a city within a city, and a place where residents have, over the last century, organized and reorganized themselves to make the neighborhood in their own image.

In Making the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022614139X
• ISBN13: 9780226141398
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"