. San Francisco. Building the American Dream City
first edition
2002 · San Francisco
by Alexander, James Beach and James Lee Heig
San Francisco: Scottwall Associates, 2002 First edition. Small folio. xiv, 402pp. Profusely illustrated with color and black & white photographs, facsimiles, drawings, maps, and floor plans. Index. Blue cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A large handsome book illustrated with 455 archival photographs, maps and drawings and 140 full-color photographs. The authors explore the intimate connection between people and the structures they build, and show how people changed the city, and how the city inspired its citizens, from the city's founding in 1776 to the present. Crammed with photographs of San Francisco architecture, many architectural details, etc.. (Inventory #: 8370)