Oakland and the Boom - A Bibliography
Some of the academic and institutional research that went into the SF Standard article "San Francisco Is Booming. Why Is Oakland Still Slumping?" If you have trouble surmounting a paywall on any of this, ping me and I'll see what I can do.
Cielo, Cristina. Civic Sideshows: Communities and Publics in East Oakland. Working Paper Nos. 2004-2005.01. ISSC Working Paper Series. University of California, Berkeley, 2005.
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0ns787hk.
Hayes, Kathy, and Semoon Chang. “The Relative Efficiency of City Manager and Mayor-Council Forms of Government.” Southern Economic Journal 57, no. 1 (1990): 167. https://doi.org/10.2307/1060487.
Johnson, Katherine M. “Captain Blake versus the Highwaymen: Or, How San Francisco Won the Freeway Revolt.” Journal of Planning History 8, no. 1 (2009): 56–83. https://doi.org/10.1177/1538513208324570.
Madrigal, Alexis. The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City. MCD, 2025.
McElroy, Erin, and Alex Werth. “Deracinated Dispossessions: On the Foreclosures of ‘Gentrification’ in Oakland, CA.” Antipode 51, no. 3 (2019): 878–98. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12528.
McNeill, Donald. “Governing a City of Unicorns: Technology Capital and the Urban Politics of San Francisco.” Urban Geography 37, no. 4 (2016): 494–513. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2016.1139868.
Pope, H. Lavar. “Hyphy Rap Music, Cooptation, and Black Fanatics in Oakland, CA (1994–2010).” Souls 16, nos. 3–4 (2014): 242–68. https://doi.org/10.1080/10999949.2014.970471.
Ramírez, Margaret M. “City as Borderland: Gentrification and the Policing of Black and Latinx Geographies in Oakland.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 38, no. 1 (2020): 147–66. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775819843924.
Saxenian, AnnaLee. “The Origins and Dynamics of Production Networks in Silicon Valley.” Research Policy 20, no. 5 (1991): 423–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/0048-7333(91)90067-Z.
Schwarzer, Michael. Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption. University of California Press, 2021.
Summers, Brandi T. “Oakland and the Ghosts of Urbicide.” Places Journal, March 2026.
https://placesjournal.org/article/oakland-and-the-ghosts-of-urbicide/.
Walker, Richard. “Another Round of Globalization in San Francisco.” Urban Geography 17, no. 1 (1996): 60–94. https://doi.org/10.2747/0272-3638.17.1.60.
Werth, Alex. On Loop: Black Sonic Politics in Oakland. University of California Press, 2025.