Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley

San Francisco is changing at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, the Bay Area has been reshaped by Silicon Valley. The richer the region gets, the more unequal and less diverse it becomes, and cracks in the city’s facade–rapid gentrification, an epidemic of evictions, rising crime, atrophied public institutions–are growing wider. Inspired by Studs Terkel’s classic works of oral history, Cary McClelland spent years interviewing people at the epicenter of recent change, from venture capitalists and coders to politicians and protesters, capturing San Francisco as never before.

Author: Cary McClelland
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/19/2019
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780393357431
Language: English