Book Reviews: Book Review of Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism , by Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg -- Blue Rectangle

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

Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg

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Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg "Hollow City" is about San Francisco. And it was written in 2000 and it's a non-fiction book about kind of the housing crisis that hit San Francisco and the whole Bay Area during and towards the end of the dot.com boom. So, it's all about how these neighbors, neighborhoods were developed so rapidly that everyone's evicted. All the buildings are sold and in all that happening, they lost their character. Chapter by chapter, Solnet will tell maybe one specific tale of a friend, artist friends of hers who lives say in the Mission District, and kind of tell their story of how they got kicked out of their apartment because their building was sold. And then to accompany, a photographer, Schwartzenberg, does some really incredible and powerful photos the city. I guess the only thing I didn't like about "Hollow City" was, just that it was such a snapshot. It was just a look at the year 2000. I'd recommend this book to people who live in San Francisco. It is full of really interesting information about San Francisco's neighborhoods, what they used to be like, how they're changing what they're like now. I'd give "Hollow City" three stars.