Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Seeing Green in San Francisco: City as Resource Frontier

Knuth, Sarah

Seeing Green in San Francisco: City as Resource Frontier Thumbnail


Authors



Abstract

The early 21st century witnessed a boom in green building in San Francisco and similar cities. Major downtown property owners and investors retrofitted office towers, commissioned green certification, and critically, explored how greening might pay. Greening initiatives transcend corporate social responsibility: they represent a new attempt to enclose and speculate upon “green” value within the second nature of cities. However, this unconventional resource discovery requires a highly partial view of buildings’ socio‐natural entanglements in and beyond the city. I illuminate these efforts and their obscurities by exploring the experience of an exemplary green building in San Francisco, an office tower that has successively served as a headquarters organizing a vast resource periphery in the American West, a symbol and driver in the transformation of the city's own second nature, a financial “resource” in its own right, and most recently, an asset in an emerging global market for green property.

Citation

Knuth, S. (2015). Seeing Green in San Francisco: City as Resource Frontier. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 48(3), 626-644. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12205

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Sep 8, 2015
Online Publication Date Nov 27, 2015
Publication Date Nov 17, 2015
Deposit Date May 23, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Antipode
Print ISSN 0066-4812
Electronic ISSN 1467-8330
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 48
Issue 3
Pages 626-644
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12205

Files

Accepted Journal Article (310 Kb)
PDF

Copyright Statement
This is the accepted version of the following article: Knuth, Sarah (2016). Seeing Green in San Francisco: City as Resource Frontier. Antipode 48(3): 626-644 which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12205. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.





You might also like



Downloadable Citations