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