Books published by Verso Books

Reporting from the front line of gentrification in San Fransisco's Mission District, The author draws on architectural history, urban studies and the images of photographer Susan Schwartzenberg, to project the end of city life for bohemians and its baleful consequences for American culture.

This collection of essays recommend Ernst Bloch's work as a challenge to older models of historical materials and utopian emancipation, and give specific examples of how that work can contribute to current debates about, for example, utopia, nationalism and collective memory.