Review: Garden Neighborhoods of San Francisco: The Development of Residence Parks, 1905–1924, by Richard Brandi

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Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: Garden Neighborhoods of San Francisco: The Development of Residence Parks, 1905–1924, by Richard Brandi Garden Neighborhoods of San Francisco: The Development of Residence Parks, 1905–1924. By Richard Brandi. (Jefferson, North Carolina, McFarland & Company, 2021. 223 pp.) Erica Schultz Erica Schultz Forget Me Not History Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2023) 92 (4): 678–680. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.4.678 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Erica Schultz; Review: Garden Neighborhoods of San Francisco: The Development of Residence Parks, 1905–1924, by Richard Brandi. Pacific Historical Review 1 November 2023; 92 (4): 678–680. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.4.678 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search Richard Brandi’s Garden Neighborhoods of San Francisco examines the prevalence of early twentieth-century residence parks situated across the western half of San Francisco. Building on research undertaken as a historic preservation consultant and in partnership with local historians, Brandi documents over thirty subdivisions that real estate developers proposed, initiated, or completed with varying success. He argues that these residence parks form a distinctive yet underappreciated landscape within the city. Brandi begins with an overview of how national economics, planning movements, and land use controls and the local topography, street grid, public transit network, and evolving architectural styles shaped the physical development of San Francisco from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. As property owners densely rebuilt the eastern half of the city devasted by the 1906 earthquake and fires, amateur and experienced real estate developers acquired and subdivided sparsely settled tracts of land to the west. Over the next two... You do not currently have access to this content.

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