Agenda• One last word on

Portland!• Orienting thoughts on

San Francisco• The Legacy of Urban

Renewal in SF• The Tenderloin• Hollow City Discussion

San Francisco Demographics• Population: 837,500– Second-most densely populated city in U.S.

• Racial Demographics (2013 Estimate)– White alone 54.30%

• White alone, not Hispanic or Latino: 41.60%

– Asian alone 34.40% – Hispanic or Latino: 15.30% – Black or African American alone 6.00% – American Indian and Alaska Native alone 0.80% – Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone

0.50% – Two or More Races: 4.10%

• Median Family Income: $73,802• Homeownership Rate: 37%• People 25+ w/ Bachelor’s or higher: 52%

Urban Renewal: The Fillmore Neighborhood

• 1935: San Francisco <1% African-American• 1942: Executive Order 9066

– 5,000+ Japanese residents relocated• 1950s:

– Middle-class black homes– Jazz and nightclubs: “Harlem of the West”

• 1959 - 1970: – ~20,000 people displaced– 4000+ businesses pushed out– 64 square blocks bulldozed– Cleared areas remained vacant for ~10 years

• 1972: Jim Jones “People’s Temple” locates in the Fillmore

Western Addition Redevelopment (1961)

"There is no moral distance ... between the facts of life in San Francisco and the facts of life in Birmingham. Someone's got to tell it like it is. And that's where it's at.” – James Baldwin, 1963

The Mission District: Resistance to Urban Renewal

• Mission Coalition Organization (1967-1973): – Inspired by threat of urban

renewal in the Mission– Diverse mix of churches,

radical political groups, and Latino cultural organizations

– Went on to work on social issues, like hunger, schools, etc.

Mission Coalition Organization (1970)

The Tenderloin

The Tenderloin

Hollow City Discussion• What did you think of the images? – What role can photography play in neighborhood-level

struggles?– Can remembering be a form of resistance?

• Why is Solnit interested in San Francisco?– “The technology boom and the accompanying housing crisis

have fast-forwarded San Francisco into the newest version of the American future” (14).

• What did you think of her defense of San Francisco bohemians? (pages 18-19)– “Cities are both the administrative hub from which order,

control, and hierarchy emanate and, traditionally, the place where that order is subverted” (18)

• “Love of place should not be confused with nationalism, which is ferocious identification with an abstract idea or an ethnicity. To love one’s place is to love particulars, details, routines, memories, minutia, strangers, encounters, surprises. It’s common now for lovers of rural places to fight to preserve them, and what they love is usually the appearance of a place, the activities possible in that place, sometimes the fauna as well as the flora and form, but also what that place means.

• Love of a city is a more complicated thing, in that it’s a love of one’s fellow humans in quantity, for their eccentricities and frailties, as well as a love of buildings, institutions such as Halloween in the Castro or the Chinese New Year Parade, particular places, ethnic mixes; but also the love of one’s liberation by and in connection to these phenomena” (30).

• “San Francisco used to be the great anomaly . . . We were the sanctuary for the queer, the eccentric, the creative, the radical, the political and economic refugees, and so they came and reinforced the city’s difference” (31)

• “San Francisco has been not only the great refuge for the nation’s pariahs and non-conformists; it has been the breeding ground of new ideas, mores and movements social, political, and artistic. To see the space in which those things were incubated be homogenized into just another place for overpaid-but-overworked producer-consumers is to witness a great loss, not only for the experimentalists, but for the world that has benefited from the better experiments (and been entertained by the sillier ones).” (34).

Reminders• Friday: – Submit Annotated

Bib• Tuesday:– Readings now on

the blog!– Quiz in class

• Thursday:– Happy

Thanksgiving!