Designing San Francisco

This was a really interesting look at how San Francisco became the city it us today, with a lens on the key people (particularly husband and wife teams) who shaped preservation and urban renewal in the City. The book focused particularly on the Ghirardelli Square, The Embarcadero Center, and the Transamerica Building. It changed my context of understanding the land battles (and giveaways) that shaped the modern downtown, and a different outlook on how law suites have prevailed to force the cities hand due to past dealings which essentially gave away large parts of the cities public lands to for profit developers. I slowed down reading it, but would highly recommend it.