Artists’ Live-Work Housing in San Francisco Oral History Project recordings, 2020-2021
- Physical description
- 11 born-digital interview recordings and transcripts.
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| Call number | Note | Status |
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| SC1590 |
Note: This is a digital collection that can only be accessed online.
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Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Kahan, Michael B.
Contents/Summary
- Summary
- This oral history project traces the changes of San Francisco’s live-work lofts from their beginnings in the 1970s, through the passage of the 1980s ordinance that legalized them, and finally through the 2001 provision that halted further development of these spaces. It seeks to add to our understanding of the city’s counterculture and its history of intentional communities, as well as of the forces that drive property development and gentrification in the city. In a broad sense, the project seeks to understand how neighborhoods and cities have been shaped by artists, and how artists’ roles in their communities have changed over time. Michael Kahan, Co-Director of the Program on Urban Studies, served as the project coordinator. The project’s steering committee includes: Robin Balliger, Chris Carlsson, Abby Chen, Janet Delaney, LisaRuth Elliott, Jackie Francis, David Prowler, Meg Shiffler, Aaron Shkuda, Debra Walker. Michael Kahan and Nova Meurice (’22) conducted interviews for the project. Interviews were conducted virtually over Zoom. Interview subjecs include Debra Walker, Margie O'Driscoll, Jill Scott, Susana Montana, Gwen Roginsky, Peter Wiehl, Irene Zhou, Geoff Schmidtt, Lynn Adler, Laurence Kornfield, and Ralph Scott.
Subjects
- Subjects
- Meurice, Nova
- Walker, Debra
- O'Driscoll, Margie
- Scott, Jill, 1952-
- Montana, Susana
- Roginsky, Gwen
- Wiehl, Peter
- Zhou, Irene
- Schmidtt, Geoff
- Adler, Lynn
- Kornfield, Laurence
- Scott, Ralph
- Stanford University. Urban Studies.
- Loft living.
- City planning.
- Artists. > California > San Francisco
- Live-work lofts.
- Intentional communities
- San Francisco (Calif.)
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2020
- Cite as
- Preferred citation: Artists’ Live-Work Housing in San Francisco Oral History Project recordings (SC1590), Dept. of Special Collection and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
- Source
- Transferred by Michael Kahan.
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