San Francisco

The Private City: The founding oligarchy of San Francisco

Name: The Private City: The founding oligarchy of San Francisco
Start: 2009-06-03T01:00:00
End: 2009-06-03T01:00:00
Location: SPUR Urban Center

Evening Forum

6:00 p.m. | Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Nineteenth-century San Francisco went from a rough-and-tumble boomtown to a Victorian city with cosmopolitan ambitions. Its development was controlled by a small group of oligarchs: miners, industrialists, financiers and real estate speculators who hoped to forge a world-class metropolis in a single generation, enriching themselves in the process. Join panelists Chris Carlsson, social historian; Chris VerPlanck, architectural historian; Jeannene Przyblyski, artist, historian and professor at the San Francisco Art Institute; and exhibition curator Benjamin Grant.

Location

SPUR Urban Center

654 Mission Street

San Francisco, CA 94105

Admission

Free to members
$5 for non-members

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Sponsorship payments: Will not be refunded, as sponsorship benefits take effect immediately and are on-going through the date of the event.

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