Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture is an anthology of fresh appraisals of the contrarian spirit of the city. The official story of San Francisco is one of progress, development, and growth. But there are other, unofficial, San Francisco stories, often shrouded in myth and in danger of being forgot-ten, and they are told here: stories of speculators and land-grabbers, immi-grants and minorities, sailors and waterfront workers, and poets, artists, and neighborhood activists.

Reclaiming San Francisco includes historians, geographers, poets, novelists, artists, art historians, photographers, journalists, citizen activists, an architect, and an anthropologist. Passionate about the city, they want San Francisco to be more itself and less like the city of office towers, chain stores, theme parks, and privatized public services and property that appears to be its immediate fate. San Francisco is not alone in being transformed according to the dictates of the global economy. But San Franciscans are unusual in their readiness to confront the corporate agenda for their city.
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