Hollow City The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism,9781859843635

Hollow City The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism

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ISBN13: 9781859843635
ISBN10: 1859843638
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-09-17
Publisher(s): VERSO
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Summary

Reporting from the front lines of gentrification in San Francisco, Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg sound a warning bell to all urban residents. Wealth is just as capable of ravaging cities as poverty.

Author Biography

Rebecca Solnit is author of, among other books, Wanderlust, A Book of Migrations, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, the NBCC award-winning River of Shadows and A Paradise Built In Hell. A contributing editor to Harper’s, she writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in San Francisco.

Urban archaeologist and artist Susan Schwartzenberg is the author of Market Street, a visual study of San Francisco’s main artery, as well as photo-essays in several books, including Reclaiming San Francisco.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Paperback Edition v
Wrecking-Ball Overture
1(11)
San Francisco, Capital of the Twenty-First Century
12(26)
Tools for Managing Loyalty
38(4)
The Shopping Cart and the Lexus
42(22)
Three Photographers and the Transformation of Yerba Buena
64(10)
A Real Estate History of the Avant-Garde
74(36)
Last Barricades
110(8)
Skid Marks on the Social Contract
118(18)
Amnesia Is a Club
136(12)
San Francisco in Chains
148(4)
Delivered Vacant
152(21)
Notes 173(8)
Acknowledgements 181

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