(Part 2) Top products from r/sanfrancisco

While I agree with you that SF is certainly "known", there's a reason brands (and, you could definitely treat/consider a city as a brand) continue to advertise. Colgate's been known for a LONG time, but if you talk to their CMO I doubt he/she would ever be content that people are "familiar enough" with Colgate for the time being, so they'll drop their ad spend for the next decade or so until they need to re-up brand awareness.

Good book that explores the subject (with a scientific slant) -
http://www.amazon.com/How-Brands-Grow-What-Marketers/dp/0195573560

To be clear, I don't know why a city that already has more demand than supply for all that is "SF" and yet clearly doesn't want to let itself get on with the times and grow needs to advertise, I DO feel that were it trying to capitalize on its growing popularity, hosting the Superbowl would re-inforce and further that agenda.

It's much, much more complicated than that. GM perhaps put the last nail in the coffin of the streetcar system in many cities, but their demise was attributable to a number of complex social, economic, policy, and technological forces.

If you would like to learn more, this is a very comprehensive and academic, but still readable study: http://www.amazon.com/Los-Angeles-Automobile-Making-Modern/dp/0520073959

It focuses on LA, but many of the same dynamics hold true for the Bay Area.

I was taught to do caricature when I worked in theme parks. I learned a lot from How to Draw the Marvel Way and studying great comic artists like Moebius and classic pen and ink artists like Charles Dana Gibson

This book is a good read

One of the core ideas is that, counterintuitively, technological connectivity has made space in cities more valuable, not less, because despite things like video chat and email, etc, the best place for a business is still in the places where people are physically nearby.

Interesting local history. This was commissioned by homeowner Pat Montandon, biological mother of author Sean Wilsey who wrote Oh The Glory of it All, personally one of my favorite books ever, delving into San Francisco high society and all sorts of dysfunction. The book created a real stir amongst the Pacific Heights set when it was written 9 years ago.

I enjoyed this book quite a bit. There were parts that were a bit slow but the book covered a lot of parts of the city that don't get much formal writing about. I read it back to back with Imperial San Francisco and enjoyed that book immensely.

> reading a report from an economist for Trulia

what about other economists who would for state universities, like Enrico Moretti or Edward Glaser or any number of other economists? Will you accept their peer reviewed claims?

Thanks, u/ianmillham! Yeah, well it's a hair salon, so no dog in residence. What can you do?

I don't generally know what the hell I'm doing with watercolor. Ultimately it does what it wants, so I just hope for the best.

One book that has been really helpful/inspiring/fun/awesome is Urban Watercolor Sketching by the German punk rock drummer-turned-artist Felix Scheinberger. Can't recommend it highly enough.

Chapter 6 of The captured economy has a great summary of how we got to where we are. Give a copy to your coworker.

If you're interested, you could read Mistakes Were Made, (But not by Me)

Don’t take my word for it:

Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation: How Silicon Valley Will Make Oil, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Electric Utilities and Conventional Cars Obsolete by 2030 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692210539/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_zk.7Ab6XXDYSB

I actually thought of that exact Onion page when I saw the photo.

This book has been sitting on my coffee table for many years and it never gets old:
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Dumb-Century-Presents-Headlines/dp/0609804618

Same here. Had to google it

I know the name "Peter Thiel", but this is the first I've heard of the book.

I read it in "The Mammoth Book Of Fantasy".

http://www.amazon.com/How-Many-Trucks-Truck-Pictureback/dp/0679878106

While the topic is laundromats... its much bigger issue. Cities need diversity, and diversity in services...
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Life-Great-American-Cities/dp/067974195X

So go the laundromats, bars, hardware stores, any specialty shops, florists, shoe repair, pet stores, thrift stores... it goes on. All these are being sacrificed for high density housing.

You could make a case that the period, roughly, 1945 to 1980 in NY was one of the great creative nexuses of human history. I recently finished reading two memoirs: The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag by Edward Field and City Boy by Edmund White, both of which took place in pre-Juliani NY. The city they depicted was endless, exciting, personally transformative, and immensely creative.

Read them also makes me realize that people often don't realize it when they're living through one of those times and that almost certainly we are right here in SF.

All of that's not to diminish the problems that NY had. The city practically went bankrupt in the 70s and had to be bailed out by the federal government, and the ever escalating crime badly traumatized the psychy of NY.

This totally makes me think of Pat Murphy's The City, Not Long After. A fun, if bohemian, take on San Francisco after a vague, non-violent, population die-off.

http://www.amazon.com/Among-Thugs-Bill-Buford/dp/0679745351
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It's as real as shows get. It was created by a former homcide reporter for the Baltimore Sun and the show was on HBO (aka, uncensored). The creator, David Simon, also wrote the book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

The characters (criminals, cops, and politicians) and most events on the show were based on real life. He takes liberties to make social/political commentary and to adapt to television, it's not a documentary. I recommend you give it a shot before dismissing it as just another cop show. This is far from your average cop show. In fact, I wouldn't even say it's a cop show. It's a show about the war on drugs and decline of the American city as told through the stories of cops, dealers, addicts, politicians, schools, and the media.