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Starting in the 1950s, SFPHA advocated for urban renewal projects in San Francisco's largely Black Fillmore neighborhood that would ultimately displace at least 4,000 people [4] and remove 4,700 homes. In 1959, the San Francisco Planning and Housing Association was reorganized into the San Francisco Planning and Urban Renewal Association.
By the 1970s, the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency had forced out 50,000 African Americans from the Fillmore District in order to build new housing and new commercial buildings. [ 21 ] [ 23 ] [ 19 ] They had bulldozed the neighborhood but then left empty lots for some 30 years, destroying the once vibrant black community.
The firm's notable current work includes the new headquarters for The Walt Disney Company, [1] the global headquarters for Citigroup, [2] Moynihan Train Hall and the expanded Penn Station complex, [3] and the restoration and renovation of the Waldorf Astoria in New York City; [4] airport projects at O'Hare International Airport, [5] Kansas City ...
The San Francisco Planning Department officially identifies 36 neighborhoods. Within these 36 official neighborhoods are a large number of minor districts, some of which are historical, and some of which are overlapping. [citation needed] Some of San Francisco's neighborhoods are also officially designated as "cultural districts". [citation needed]
The Urban Design Element of the San Francisco General Plan; Allan Jacobs and Donald Appleyard, Toward an Urban Design Manifesto. Working Paper published 1982; republished with a prologue in the Journal of the American Planning Association, 1987. [2] Making City Planning Work (1980) Looking at Cities (1985) Great Streets (1995)
On the operating side, funding comes from San Francisco's general fund, transit passenger fares, fines and fees the agency charges, grants, and revenue from parking facilities. [10] On the capital side, funding comes from at least 38 different sources at the local (San Francisco), regional (Bay Area), state, and federal levels. [11]
Kofi S. Bonner is an American architect and planner widely known for the heading the redevelopment of the city of Emeryville, California.In 1995, Bonner was the deputy executive director of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency before resigning to become the director of community & economic development for the city of Oakland, California. [1]
The city of San Francisco (U.S.A.) carried out its process between 1982 and 1984. The main motivation behind starting strategic urban planning processes was the attempt to adequately react to problematic situations (mainly economic crisis or standstill). At the beginning of the 21st century, this kind of organization is not reactive but proactive.