Imperial San Francisco At 20: More Relevant Than Ever

On November 22, 2019, at noon, Gray Brechin will speak about his book, Imperial San Francisco, at the Mechanics Institute in San Francisco.

When U.C. Press published ISF in 1999, it spent 16 weeks on the Chronicle’s best-seller list and has never gone out of publication. Now considered a classic of urban studies, it uses San Francisco as an example of how all great cities  wreck the hinterlands upon which they depend for the sake of those who own and run them, especially — in the modern world — the “thought-shapers” who control the mass media. Author Gray Brechin will revisit its thesis in light of the self-inflicted crises that today confront the world’s cities in light of climate chaos, wealth inequality, and human overpopulation.

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