A useful companion for travelers, educators, or longtime residents, this guide: Features over 100 must-visit sites to explore and learn from. Demonstrates how to read the landscape for historical clues.
Whether you're a San Franciscan looking to uncover your city's secrets or seeking an authentic experience beyond the tourist track, this stylish e-guide makes sure you experience San Francisco beneath the surface.
His distinction between the 'romantic' and the 'rationalist' approaches to the formation of the city's parks is illuminating."—Newsletter of the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society "Written in a clear and fluid style . . . the ...
This edition adds sixty new female private eyes to the roster and includes an afterword that assesses the current state of the genre's new and old novels. A comprehensive bibliography and a character list update the field through mid-1994.
Along the way you'll meet characters like the city's foremother Juana Briones, Gold Rush entrepreneur Levi Strauss, confectioner Domenico Ghirardelli, gangster Al Capone, the rock legends of Haight-Ashbury, activist politician Harvey Milk, ...
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.