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Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin. Talking with author Gray Brechin.
Season 22
Episode 18
Published 2 years, 6 months ago
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San Francisco's great wealth creation in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as the emergence of dynastic family elites largely developed as a result of exploitation of nearby natural resources. But most great cities have followed a similar path. And today's Silicon Valley fortunes are little different in that respect, but substitute the mining of academic excellence for natural resources.