Alex Schafran writes about urban and regional change. Born and raised in the Bay Area, he is currently Lecturer in Urban Geography at the University of Leeds.Visit alexschafran.com for tour dates and speaking engagements.

"[A] deep and complex analysis of why the Bay Area of Northern California . . . remains deeply racially and class segregated and facing an affordable housing crisis."

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPreface: The Personal and the PoliticalIntroduction: Ghosts in the Machine1 • The Suburbanization of Segregation2 • The Postindustrial Garden3 • The Dougherty Valley Dilemma4 • The Reproduction of Babylon and the Gentrification Dilemma5 • Silicon San Francisco and the West Bay Wall6 • The Altamont Line and the Planning Dilemma7 • The Regionalist Dream8 • The Unrealized CoalitionConclusion: Resegregation and the Pursuit of Common PurposeNotesReferencesIndex

Alex Schafran writes about urban and regional change. Born and raised in the Bay Area, he is currently Lecturer in Urban Geography at the University of Leeds.Visit alexschafran.com for tour dates and speaking engagements.

"[A] deep and complex analysis of why the Bay Area of Northern California . . . remains deeply racially and class segregated and facing an affordable housing crisis."

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPreface: The Personal and the PoliticalIntroduction: Ghosts in the Machine1 • The Suburbanization of Segregation2 • The Postindustrial Garden3 • The Dougherty Valley Dilemma4 • The Reproduction of Babylon and the Gentrification Dilemma5 • Silicon San Francisco and the West Bay Wall6 • The Altamont Line and the Planning Dilemma7 • The Regionalist Dream8 • The Unrealized CoalitionConclusion: Resegregation and the Pursuit of Common PurposeNotesReferencesIndex

Alex Schafran writes about urban and regional change. Born and raised in the Bay Area, he is currently Lecturer in Urban Geography at the University of Leeds.Visit alexschafran.com for tour dates and speaking engagements.

"[A] deep and complex analysis of why the Bay Area of Northern California . . . remains deeply racially and class segregated and facing an affordable housing crisis."

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPreface: The Personal and the PoliticalIntroduction: Ghosts in the Machine1 • The Suburbanization of Segregation2 • The Postindustrial Garden3 • The Dougherty Valley Dilemma4 • The Reproduction of Babylon and the Gentrification Dilemma5 • Silicon San Francisco and the West Bay Wall6 • The Altamont Line and the Planning Dilemma7 • The Regionalist Dream8 • The Unrealized CoalitionConclusion: Resegregation and the Pursuit of Common PurposeNotesReferencesIndex