TY - SER AU - Chuo Li TI - Postwar Urban Redevelopment and the Politics of Exclusion : The Case of San Francisco’s Chinatown PY - 2019/// PB - Sage KW - urban renewal KW - places KW - downtown KW - racial politics KW - ethnic community KW - places KW - public housing KW - planning eras/approaches N2 - This article examines the landscape changes of San Francisco's Chinatown resulting from urban redevelopment after World War II. It describes the contested process of community development and documents the intricacies of Chinatown's spatial struggles. Socially constructed as a space of “otherness,” San Francisco's Chinatown illustrates the ways in which urban redevelopment process interacted with the social and cultural tensions of a plural and liberal urban society. It also reveals how the existing categories of ethnicity and cultural identity have been renegotiated over time UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/1538513218755043 ER -