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Title: City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco, Revised and Updated Edition by Chester Hartman, Sarah Carnochan ISBN: 0520086058 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 17 June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2
Rating: 2
Summary: not very interesting
Comment: After reading _The Power Broker_, I was expecting a similar expose of the power politics that went in to San Francisco's redevelopment. _City for Sale_ did not live up to my expectations. Hartman's style is very dry and he gives us very little insight into the people who were involved in the battles that shaped modern San Francisco. He relies almost exclusively on secondary or tertiary sources and presents too much information without distilling and analyzing it.
Hartman spends little more than a page on San Francisco's public transit woes. He ignores the development of BART - which operates almost exclusively as a conduit for suburban workers to go to and from the financial district and serves virtually none of San Francisco's neighborhoods. He also offers little insight into the city's homeless problem - people are drawn to San Francisco because it is the only city in the area that pash cash to homeless people.
I was most disappointed that after Hartman spent 385 pages outlining how the city's business establishment had virtually controlled urban redevelopment for the last 30 years - he spends the last 15 pages trying to blame San Francisco's gentrification problems on computer programmers in their mid-20s. This book was written so recently and yet Hartman's analysis is already incorrect - silicon valley people in their mid-20s are no longer a threat to San Francisco - but the business interests downtown and in Pacific Heights who obviously created the mess still have the same control over the city's affairs.
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Title: Left Coast City: Progressive Politics in San Francisco, 1975-1991 by Richard Edward Deleon ISBN: 070060555X Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A California State of Mind: The Conflicted Voter in a Changing World by Mark Baldassare ISBN: 0520236483 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 07 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin (California Studies in Critical Human Geography) by Gray A. Brechin ISBN: 0520229029 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 05 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Rebuilding the Inner City by Robert Halpern ISBN: 0231081154 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970 by Matt Garcia ISBN: 0807849839 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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