Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism

Reporting from the front lines of gentrification in San Francisco, Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg sound a warning bell to all urban residents. Wealth is just as capable of ravaging cities as poverty.

Author: Rebecca Solnit
Publisher: Verso
Published: 09/17/2002
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 7.18h x 7.38w x 0.47d
ISBN13: 9781859843635
ISBN10: 1859843638
BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | General
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban

About the Author
Rebecca Solnit is author of, among other books, Wanderlust, A Book of Migrations, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, the NBCC award-winning River of Shadows and A Paradise Built In Hell. A contributing editor to Harper's, she writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in San Francisco.

Urban archaeologist and artist Susan Schwartzenberg is the author of Market Street, a visual study of San Francisco's main artery, as well as photo-essays in several books, including Reclaiming San Francisco.