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Title: Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism by Rebecca Solnit, Susan Schwartzenberg ISBN: 1-85984-363-8 Publisher: Verso Pub. Date: 26 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Shallow City: History of Its Flux from Origins to Eternity
Comment: The historical journey Solnit takes through the reoccurring demise of San Francisco's bohemian culture only leads to sob stories in the end and does little for her cause. Remember, these now run-down neighborhoods and homes were expensive and new when first built 100 years ago. Yes, it's horrible that in our time the materially rich are pushing the spiritually rich out of the city, but the book only shows that artists will one day come back again. It may not be the same as when we first came, but that's life - nothing stays the same.
Rating: 3
Summary: A mild success
Comment: Although Rebecca Solnit writes with a deliberate and sometimes myopic agenda, her style is extraordinarily effective in evoking sympathy. It is elegaic in nature and the entire book reads as a eulogy, a fact reinforced by the shuttered structures and funeral processions presented in Schwatzenberg's photo essays. The digressions into such realms as the origins of Bohemia don't seem irrelevant or excessive but merely an extension of the beauty of the writing and presentation.
Although the issue has become less pressing with the collapse of the fervor of the internet economy, it should be noted the type of mass evictions in favour of live/work lofts is still a common occurrence in San Francisco, and that housing is still beyond the means of many ordinary San Franciscans. Despite the less fervent pace of gentrification, those in the funeral procession presented in the opening pages will not be returning to their homes; the character of their neighbourhood will not be restored.
The work is a mild success. Although somewhat obsolescent, it is still relevant, whether because of its still necessary impressions on the hearts of those who read it, or as a presentation of a historical phenomenon. But furthermore, as a literary work, and as a visual work, it is beautiful both in its prose and photography.
Rating: 1
Summary: DOA
Comment: Well now that the dot com bubble has burst volume II can be the eviction of gentrification.
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Title: Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit ISBN: 0140286012 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 05 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City by Neil Smith ISBN: 041513255X Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $40.95 |
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Title: River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit ISBN: 0670031763 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 27 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland by Rebecca Solnit ISBN: 1859841864 Publisher: Verso Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs ISBN: 067974195X Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 November, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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