By Kate MurphySan Jose Mercury NewsJune 28th, 2018 The geographer Richard Walker is out with an unflinching examination of the…
The Dark Side of the Silicon Gold Rush: Q&A with Richard Walker, Author of Pictures of a Gone City
By Richard FloridaCityLabJuly 3rd, 2018 Pictures of a Gone City is the culmination of the life’s work of Richard A.…
San Francisco Is So Expensive, You Can Make Six Figures and Still Be ‘Low Income’
By Karen ZraickNew York TimesJune 30th 2018 In the latest sign of the astronomical cost of living in parts of…
Richard Walker Interviewed on The Commonwealth Club
Commonwealth Club of San FranciscoSeptember 25th, 2018 The Bay Area is currently the jewel in the crown of capitalism—the tech…
Richard Walker Interviewed on Recode
Recode Decode with Kara SwisherMarch 21st, 2019 Historian and urbanist Richard Walker, a professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, talks with…
San Francisco; or, How to Destroy a City
Making the Left Coast PossibleApril 2019 Richard Walker has played a crucial role in shaping our understanding of the Bay…
Pictures of a Gone City Reivewed in Antipode Journal
By Sarah KnuthAntipodeMarch 2019 It is a timely moment to have a left geographic conversation about Richard Walker’s recent book,…
San Francisco; or, How to Destroy a City
By Shannon MatternPublic BooksMarch 27th, 2019 In Cities, Knowledge, and the Digital Age, a new partnership between Public Books and…
Richard Walker at the California Historical Society, January 9, 2019
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How Should the Bay Area Tackle Inequality and Poverty?
By Rose Aguilar & Laura WenusYour Call, KALWMay 10th, 2018 On this edition of Your Call, Richard Walker returns for…