Hunters Point & India Basin Industrial Park (Raster Image)

Description:

This layer is a georeferenced image of Hunters Point & India Basin Industrial Park in San Francisco. This map was originally created by the Bayview-Hunters Point Joint Housing Committee and the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency in 1969. A scanned version of this map was georeferenced as part of the Imagined San Francisco project. This project traces the history of urban planning in San Francisco, placing special emphasis on unrealized schemes. Rather than using visual material simply to illustrate outcomes, Imagined San Francisco uses historical plans, maps, architectural renderings, and photographs to show what might have been. By enabling users to layer a series of urban plans, the project presents the city not only as a sequence of material changes, but also as a contingent process and a battleground for political power. Savvy institutional actors--like banks, developers, and many public officials--understood that in some cases to clearly articulate their interests would be to invite challenges. That means that textual sources like newspapers and municipal reports are limited in what they can tell researchers about the shape of political power. Urban plans, however, often speak volumes about interests and dynamics upon which textual sources remain silent. Mortgage lenders, for example, apparently thought it unwise to state that they wished to see a poor neighborhood cleared, to be replaced with a freeway onramp. Yet visual analysis of planning proposals makes that interest plain. So in the process of showing how the city might have looked, Imagined San Francisco also shows how political power actually was negotiated and exercised. Bayview-Hunters Point Joint Housing Committee and San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (2022). Hunters Point & India Basin Industrial Park (Raster Image) (Raster Image). Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/nq732wy3436 This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Resource Link:

https://purl.stanford.edu/nq732wy3436

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/nq732wy3436

Language:

English

Creator:

San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (San Francisco, Calif.) and Bayview-Hunters Point Joint Housing Committee

Publisher:

Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Resource Type:

Digital maps

Subject:

City planning, Urban renewal, and Imagery and Base Maps

Temporal Coverage:

1969

Date Issued:

2022

Spatial Coverage:

San Francisco (Calif.)

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

GeoTIFF