- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: University Press of Kansas (September 1992)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 070060555X
- ISBN-13: 978-0700605552
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.3 x 1.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 358 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"A well-written and thoroughly documented account of the city's transition." -- Choice
"DeLeon has a gift for storytelling. He takes readers on a fascinating tour of San Francisco's political world." -- San Francisco Daily Journal
"Power brokers and citizens alike would do well to read this book." -- San Francisco Examiner
"This keen study roughs out the contours and illuminates the shadows of The City's political terrain between 1975 and 1991." -- San Francisco Magazine
"DeLeon has a gift for storytelling. He takes readers on a fascinating tour of San Francisco's political world." -- San Francisco Daily Journal
"Power brokers and citizens alike would do well to read this book." -- San Francisco Examiner
"This keen study roughs out the contours and illuminates the shadows of The City's political terrain between 1975 and 1991." -- San Francisco Magazine
Book Description
When Art Agnos campaigned for mayor of San Francisco in 1987, he articulated and defended the "left" isms-liberalism, environmentalism, and populism. He won. Seeing Agnos as a defender of slowgrowth vs. progrowth, the city's progressives had high hopes. But to their disappointment, in the wake of the passage of Proposition M-the most restrictive growth control legislation of any large U.S. city-Agnos supported waterfront development and proposals to build a new baseball stadium in China Basin and a large residential and business development in Mission Bay. In 1991 Agnos ran for reelection. He lost. Left Coast City provides insight into how San Francisco's progressive coalition developed between 1975 and 1991, what stresses emerged to cause splintering within the coalition, and how the coalition fell apart in the 1991 mayoral campaign. Focusing on San Francisco's turbulent political history, non-conformist traditions, and ethnic and cultural diversity, political scientist Richard DeLeon analyzes the successes and failures of the progressive movement as it topples the business-dominated progrowth regime, imposes stringent controls on growth and development, and achieves political control of city hall. Although the movement has achieved national recognition as a possible vanguard of social and political change in this country, DeLeon argues that a new progressive regime has not yet emerged to replace the defunct progrowth regime. Having helped to create chaos out of order, progressive leaders now face the task of creating order out of chaos.
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A must read for those interested in San Francisco politics,
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This review is from: Left Coast City (Paperback)
If you are at all interested in the new role of cities in the global economy or San Francisco politics, this is the book to have. The most informative book on San Franicisco politics to date. Theoretically sophisticated and a readable case study at the same time
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A must read for those interested in San Francisco politics,
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This review is from: Left Coast City (Paperback)
If you are at all interested in the new role of cities in the global economy or San Francisco politics, this is the book to have. The most informative book on San Franicisco politics to date. Theoretically sophisticated and a readable case study at the same time
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Essential in understanding San Francisco Politics,
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This review is from: Left Coast City: Progressive Politics in San Francisco, 1975-1991 (Hardcover)
I have read this book and learned about San Francisco politics in a manner that could only be paralleled by an education at San Francisco State University. Highly informative and highly recommended.
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