California Forever: a Bibliography
My sources for the article "Big Tech's Urban Hero." If you want one and hit a paywall, send me a note and I'll see what I can do. I didn't include much journalistic coverage; this is the deep academic and research work. Also more books this time.
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Kehrig, Matthias, and Nicolas Vincent. The Micro-Level Anatomy of the Labor Share Decline. w25275, National Bureau of Economic Research, Nov. 2018, p. w25275, https://doi.org/10.3386/w25275.
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Longstreth, Richard. City Center to Regional Mall: Architecture, the Automobile, and Retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950. MIT Press, 1998.
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RHJ Editorial Collective. “Covid-19 and Housing Struggles: The (Re)Makings of Austerity, Disaster Capitalism, and the No Return to Normal.” Radical Housing Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, May 2020, pp. 9–28, https://doi.org/10.54825/APWX1864.
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Rogers, Adam. “I Looked at the Plans for the New City Proposed by Silicon Valley Elites. They’re Really Terrible.” Insider, 29 Sept. 2023, https://www.businessinsider.com/california-forever-silicon-valley-billionaire-city-plans-are-terrible-2023-9.
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Sadowski, Jathan. “Who Owns the Future City? Phases of Technological Urbanism and Shifts in Sovereignty.” Urban Studies, vol. 58, no. 8, June 2021, pp. 1732–44, https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098020913427.
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Sumagaysay, Levi, and Ben Christopher. “Tech-Billionaire Promises for a New City, from Roads to Water, Are Worth Hundreds of Millions of Dollars — If They’re Binding.” CalMatters, Feb. 22, 2024, https://calmatters.org/economy/2024/california-forever-promises/.
Wegmann, Jake. “Death to Single-Family Zoning…and New Life to the Missing Middle.” Journal of the American Planning Association, vol. 86, no. 1, Jan. 2020, pp. 113–19, https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2019.1651217.
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Yrigoy, Ismael. “Unpacking Capital Switching: Value, Rentierism and Displacement in Absolute and Relative Forms of Switching.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 47, no. 6, Nov. 2023, pp. 940–56, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13183.