City on the Edge

Why it’s on the list: Weber — a tech-and-politics editor who covered the city from the Industry Standard through the San Francisco Standard — tells thirty-five years of San Francisco from the early-1990s slump to Daniel Lurie’s inauguration, drawing on about 200 interviews, and reads the fight over the city as a rehearsal of culture wars that went national.

Where I heard about it

• A saved Amazon link — I saved the link without a note of who pointed me to it.

Connections

• San Francisco — the subject.
• City Building — the portfolio idea this sits closest to.