Lec 11 - Bay Area Divided The Micro Geography of the...

2/28/06
Bay Area Divided
The Micro Geography of the Metropolis
Lecture 11
• Segregated Suburbia
o Developers
 Mass housing development didn’t really originate till 1920s
 Entire tracks were developed with hundreds of houses built at once
• Very homogenous
• Used to only build few houses at a time
o Used to develop very heterogeneous housing
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This development style started in California, not Long Island, New York
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Doelger built most of the Southwest San Francisco neighborhoods including Sunset
• West San Francisco all these 1920s style houses, not Victorian
o Covenants
 Deed covenants
• Introduced widely in 1900
• Restrict the use of property
• Racial covenants (white-only suburbs)
o Caused racial exclusion in neighborhoods
o Piedmont had Jewish streets
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Presidio Terrace – classic suburb with covenants
o Zoning
 Invented in early 1920s, city ordinances
• Separation of use
o Industrial, commercial, residential
o Single vs. multi-family homes
• Minimum lot sizes
o Made sure that houses remain relatively large sized to exclude the poor
• Started in Berkeley
o Borax and Mason-McDuffie helped develop the Claremont District in 1906
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LA adopts zoning in 1908, New York in 1915
o Hoover’s Model Zoning Ordinances, 1920s
 Zoning spread across the country
o Finance
 Mortgage Loans
• Only available to upper classes < 1930
• Working class rented
• Racial discrimination
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