Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area

Abstract

Front Cover; Advance Praise for Pictures of a Gone City; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: The Golden Economy; Beneath the Glitter; Introduction to part I; Chapter One: Tech City; Beyond the Myth of Immaculate Innovation; Chapter Two: Boom Town; Winning and Losing the Economic Lottery; chapter Three: Gold Mountain; Wealth, Inequality, and the Class Divide; Chapter Four: City at Work; Making and Fighting for a Living; Part II: The New Metropolis; Urban Transformation and the Tech Boom; Introduction to part II; Chapter Five: The New Urbanism. Remaking the Heart of the CityChapter Six: Bubble by the Bay; Anatomy of a Housing Crisis; Chapter Seven: Metro Monster; Size, Sprawl, and Segregation; Part III: Facing the Future; Dreams, Nightmares, and Political Realities; Introduction to part III; Chapter Eight: Saving Greenland; Environmentalism in the Age of Global Warming; Chapter Nine: Tech World; Utopias and Dystopias of the IT Revolution; Chapter Ten: The Right Fight; What Future for the Left Coast?; Bibliography; About the Author; Index.