Demolishing a Historic Hotel: A Sociology of Preservation Failures in Davis, California
Up one levelPdf files of John Lofland's 2003 book of the above title. The book is 380 pages divided here into 13 pdf files. This large number of pdf files is required because the book features photographs and other graphics, such as maps, which are "memory intensive."
- Front & back cover
- 001-024
- Half title page; title page; copyright and dedication page; Brief Contents; Detailed Contents; Chapter 1, Introduction.
- 025-034
- Part I introduction, A Historic Hotel: Eight Decades, 1920s-1990s; Ch. 2, Before the Building.
- 035-058
- Ch. 3, Heyday Decades, 1920s; Ch. 4, Heyday Decades, 1930s-40s.
- 059-094
- Ch. 5, Neglect Decades, 1950s-70s.
- 095-126
- Ch. 6, Neglect Decades, 1980s-90s.
- 127-190
- Part II introduction, Preservation Failures: Two Years, 1999-2000; Ch. 7, Designation Failure; Ch. 8, Feasibility Study Failure.
- 191-206
- Ch. 9, Celebration Success.
- 207-246
- Ch. 10, Facadectomy Failure.
- 247-292
- Ch. 11, Freeze Failure.
- 293-320
- Part III introduction, Demolishing: Two Months, Fall, 2000; Ch. 12, Demolition Processes.
- 321-342
- Ch. 13, Demolition Moments.
- 343-380
- Part IV introduction, Consequences and Causes; Ch. 14, Consequences; Ch. 15, Causes: A Sociology of Preservation Failures; Sources, Methods, Acknowledgements; References; By and About the Author.