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City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco, Revised and Updated Edition by Chester Hartman

devinsf's review

4.0

I don't usually make broad comments like this, but anyone interested in the postwar history of SF should read this book. It's written by one of the key lawyers in several of the lawsuits against the Yerba Buena Center redevelopment project in the South of Market during the 60s and 70s — and, as you might expect, is an extremely critical look at the topic. Hartman provides a background on the organizations which led up to the formation of the Redevelopment agency, then goes into a thorough blow-by-blow of the South of Market story. Note: readers interested in the Western Addition RDA projects should look to other histories, this one is specifically about Zone D.