Selling the city
gender, class, and the California growth machine, 1880-1940
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Author
Publication
2004 - Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif, California
Language
English
Word Count
53,750 words, Guess
Page Count
215 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3681562M
- ISBN-100804748756
- OCLC Control Number54022404
- OCLC Control Numbersellingcitygende0000simp
- Library of Congress Control Number2003027045
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- Goodreads664735
- LibraryThing2350252
Classifications
- DDC305.4/09794
- LCCHQ1438.C2 S55 2004
Description
"Between 1880 and 1940, California cities were in the vanguard in creating comprehensive city plans and zoning ordinances that came to characterize modern American city growth. This book reveals the means by which property-owning middle-class women achieved entry into the male-dominated sphere of urban planning. It suggests that women in California were not excluded from public life. Instead, they embraced the middle-class ideology of propertied self-interest and participated to the fullest extent possible in the urban struggle for regional dominance that shaped this period of western history. Likewise, as urban historians have presented this story as essentially male, this work suggests that although California's urban elite often maintained a division of labor along traditional gender lines, they clearly worked in a cross-gender alliance to shape a regional identity based on a commitment to urban growth."--BOOK JACKET.
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