Overview

Reporting from the front line of gentrification in San Francisco's Mission District, Solnit projects the end of city life for bohemians and the baleful consequences for American culture. Solnit is rueful about the decision of cities like SF to increase rents so that poor people, artists and writers can no longer afford to live there.

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Author:   Rebecca Solnit ,  Susan Schwartzenberg
Publisher:   Verso Books
Imprint:   Verso Books
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 18.80cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 18.80cm
Weight:   0.411kg
ISBN:  

9781859843635

ISBN 10:   1859843638
Pages:   190
Publication Date:   17 September 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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So many people who kept American cities alive and creative through dark decades, when capital abandoned the city, have become victims of capital's recent triumphant return to the city. This beautifully composed and crafted book tells their story. It is a compelling vision of our emerging global culture of displaced persons - Marshall Berman Passionate, potent, and to the point, Solnit's polemic embodies American political and social writing at its best. - Publishers Weekly One day we all woke up and San Francisco had become a bohemian entertainment park without bohemians. Those were the golden days of virtual capitalism. Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg help us to understand why this happened. Their book is necessary to understanding our new place in a brand new scary world. - Guillermo Gomez-Pena Schwartzenberg's images survey more than thirty years of upheaval in the name of 'urban renewal', and Sonit's text brings urgency to the question of whether a place in which h artists, activists, and members of diverse races and classes can no longer afford to live is fated to become a 'city of presentation without creation' - New Yorker

Author Information

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including a trilogy of atlases and the books The Mother of All Questions, Hope in the Dark, Men Explain Things to Me; The Faraway Nearby; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper's.

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