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Beach Street Quick-Build Project
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Bike Routes to Look Forward To | Offprint
A hopeful view toward the future of biking in the Bay
The Water’s Edge: Empire, Race, and the Global History of Oakland, California, 1848-1980
Author(s): Klein, Andrew Nelson Carver | Advisor(s): Kelley, Robin D.G. | Abstract: This dissertation explores historical intersections between capitalism, race-making, environmental change, and U.S. foreign relations from the vantage of Oakland’s waterfront. It tracks the evolution of this geostrategic coastline since it emerged as a coal-powered nexus of railroads, steamships, and military installations during American colonization. Revising the story of Oakland’s development from a global perspective, my project documents how local boosters, businessmen, and bureaucrats forged intimate ties with far-flung territories administered by U.S. troops and landowners. Combining social and environmental history with methods from Black studies, I map the transformation of Oakland’s fertile estuary into an infilled hub of postindustrial commerce, a vital node of military logistics, and a focal point for racialized labor migration. Simultaneously, this dissertation reveals how, over the long twentieth century, Black, Indigenous, Chinese, and other working-class Oaklanders found footholds on the harbor, often repurposing its imperial routes for dramatically different ends. Drawing on archives and oral histories in Cuba, Hawai‘i, and across the continental United States, I trace Oakland’s tradition of radical internationalism, most visible in the antiwar and Black Power movements of the sixties, to multi-generational struggles over the governance of coastal land. I argue that Oakland’s waterfront both bridged the continental and overseas expansion of an ascendant world power and came to serve as a proving ground for alternative forms of globalization. “The Water’s Edge” therefore offers a critical reappraisal of the generally place-bound history of North American urbanism and far-reaching lessons for building just cities in a present defined by global environmental crises.
Weekend Transit Hacking: Peninsula to Oakland | Offprint
I have close friends who live in Oakland which is across the Bay from me. We generally meet in the city to hang out...
497 days car-free in the South Bay | Offprint
Reflections on car-free living in the South Bay and why I finally gave in,
A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards | The Center for Land Use Interpretation
The First Map of Oakland, California: An Historical Speculation as Solution to an Enigma on JSTOR
Jack J. Studer, The First Map of Oakland, California: An Historical Speculation as Solution to an Enigma, California Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Mar., 1969), pp. 59-71
Offprint News | Offprint
News and updates from the Offprint team. New features, changes, and the occasional deep dive.
Reflections from the Alpine Trail | Offprint
The unfulfilled promise of Bay Area slow and leisurely cycling.
Deploy San Francisco | DigitalOcean
Deploy San Francisco is an in-person conference where you'll learn to navigate what's next in AI with infrastructure insights and strategies. Register for free.
South Bay Map Night (OpenStreetMap), Tue, Jul 9, 2024, 7:00 PM | Meetup
Every other week, [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/) enthusiasts from across San José and the South Bay meet to share tagging advice, hatch mapping plans, and
S.F. is building housing for artists. Now it has to decide who gets it
San Francisco is creating a formal process to determine who qualifies as an artist, a new certification required for city residents hoping to live in this affordable housing development.
East of these golden shores; architecture of the earlier days in Contra Costa and Alameda Counties | WorldCat.org
East bay heritage : a potpourri of living history | WorldCat.org