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City on the Edge: Technology, Politics, and the Fight for the Soul of San Francisco
Jonathan Weber follows San Francisco’s transformation from a troubled regional city into the center of the internet economy. Drawing on decades of reporting and interviews with politicians, entrepreneurs, activists, and artists, he examines the alliance between technological ambition and the city’s countercultural identity. Success brought extraordinary wealth alongside housing shortages, homelessness, and widening divisions over public life. Weber traces successive booms, the pandemic’s disruption, and the rise of artificial intelligence, showing how the city’s political struggles reveal tensions that extend well beyond the Bay Area.
- Publisher
- Atria Books
- Publication date
- 2026-06-09
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN
- 9781668074916
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