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A City for Children
Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950
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A City for Children
Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950
About this book
American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast cities, especially in California, where the migration boom at the end of the nineteenth century permanently changed the urban fabric of these newly diverse, plural metropolises.
In A City for Children, Marta Gutman focuses on the use and adaptive reuse of everyday buildings in Oakland, California, to make the city a better place for children. She introduces us to the women who were determined to mitigate the burdens placed on working-class families by an indifferent industrial capitalist economy. Often without the financial means to build from scratch, women did not tend to conceive of urban land as a blank slate to be wiped clean for development. Instead, Gutman shows how, over and over, women turned private houses in Oakland into orphanages, kindergartens, settlement houses, and day care centers, and in the process built the charitable landscape—a network of places that was critical for the betterment of children, families, and public life. The industrial landscape of Oakland, riddled with the effects of social inequalities and racial prejudices, is not a neutral backdrop in Gutman's story but an active player. Spanning one hundred years of history, A City for Children provides a compelling model for building urban institutions and demonstrates that children, women, charity, and incremental construction, renovations, alterations, additions, and repurposed structures are central to the understanding of modern cities.
In A City for Children, Marta Gutman focuses on the use and adaptive reuse of everyday buildings in Oakland, California, to make the city a better place for children. She introduces us to the women who were determined to mitigate the burdens placed on working-class families by an indifferent industrial capitalist economy. Often without the financial means to build from scratch, women did not tend to conceive of urban land as a blank slate to be wiped clean for development. Instead, Gutman shows how, over and over, women turned private houses in Oakland into orphanages, kindergartens, settlement houses, and day care centers, and in the process built the charitable landscape—a network of places that was critical for the betterment of children, families, and public life. The industrial landscape of Oakland, riddled with the effects of social inequalities and racial prejudices, is not a neutral backdrop in Gutman's story but an active player. Spanning one hundred years of history, A City for Children provides a compelling model for building urban institutions and demonstrates that children, women, charity, and incremental construction, renovations, alterations, additions, and repurposed structures are central to the understanding of modern cities.
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INDEX
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
abortion, 115–16
Acorn Redevelopment Project, 327–28, 327, 342
Addams, Jane: and culture, 190, 400n66; influence of, 169, 183–84, 298; and libraries, 227–28; and playgrounds, 218; and repurposing, 25, 167; and the settlement movement, 144, 167, 178, 183–84, 191, 209, 242; support of railroad strike, 168; at White House conference, 253; and working mothers, 404n107. See also Hull House
Adeline Street, Oakland, 6, 15, 304
Adler, Felix, 149
admissions policies: for day nurseries, 300, 327; for elder care, 102, 379n103; for orphanages, 24, 48, 66, 90, 106, 117, 118, 122, 123, 264, 272, 418n54. See also racial integration; racial segregation
adobe construction, 45
adolescence, 196, 222
adopted homes, 251
adoption, 124–25
Aesthetic Movement, 188
African Americans: artists’ depictions of, 199; black churches, 73, 122, 263, 303–4, 305, 317, 340; black power movement, 28, 344; civil rights movement, 315; and class, 314–15, 320–21, 324–25, 329; day nurseries for, 291–93, 307–29; Dred Scott decision, 15; elder care for, 106, 304; and homeownership, 335–36; migration to Oakland, 15, 263, 271, 305–6, 320, 334–35; mortality of infants, 117; orphanages for, 45, 268, 291, 307, 309–29; political advances of, 106; in railroad employment, 6, 15, 112; in reform schools, 258; in San Francisco, 15, 305; and unions, 323; and urban renewal, 27–28, 331–43; and urban space, 316–18, 329; women’s clubs for, 106, 180, 209, 214, 215, 291–93, 304–25; and YWCAs, 26, 316–17, 318, 320, 325. See also racial integration...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Series Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- One. New Ideas from Old Things in Oakland
- Two. The Landscape of Charity in California: First Imprints in San Francisco
- Three. The Ladies Intervene: Repurposed and Purpose-Built in Temescal
- Four. The West Oakland Home: The “Noble Work for a Life Saving” of Rebecca McWade
- Five. The Saloon That Became a School: Free Kindergartens in Northern California
- Six. The Art and Craft of Settlement Work in Oakland Point
- Seven. “The Ground Must Belong to the City”: Playgrounds and Recreation Centers in Oakland’s Neighborhoods
- Eight. Orphaned in Oakland: Institutional Life during the Progressive Era
- Nine. Childhood on the Color Line in West Oakland: Day Nurseries during the Interwar Years
- Epilogue
- Oral Histories and Interviews
- Abbreviations Used in the Notes
- Notes
- Index
- Series List