By Rose Aguilar & Laura Wenus
Your Call, KALW
April 24th, 2018
On this edition of Your Call, UC Berkeley geography professor emeritus Richard Walker discusses his new book, Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Walker calls San Francisco the “jewel in the crown of capitalism, the tech capital of the world and a gusher of wealth from the Silicon Gold Rush.” But there is a dark side to success on the Left Coast: extreme inequality, displacement, underpaid workers, and a relentless housing crisis. Why has the tech boom excluded so many people, particularly people of color and immigrants? What will it take to tackle these issues?
