Books
Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1999
Read the 2006 introduction
Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream
with photographer Robert Dawson
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1999
Reclaiming San Francisco
Chapter: Pecuniary Emulation: The Role of Tycoons in Imperial City-Building. City Lights Books, January, 1998
Indestructable By Reason of Beauty: The Beaumanance of a Public Library Building
View PDF version. Lead essay in a book on the San Francisco Public Library building. Greenwood Press, 2003.
At Work: The Art of California Labor
View online version. Foreward. With Mark Dean Johnson and Tillie Olsen.
Fool’s Paradise: A Carey McWilliams Reader
View PDF version. Introduction. Heyday Books, 2001.
Phoebe Apperson Hearst as Patron of Architecture and Urban Planning
Chapter in a unpublished catalogue for an exhibition on the Phoebe Hearst International Competition for the University of California, University Art Museum, Berkeley.
A Place of Light and Power: The Restored San Francisco Gas Light Company Building
San Francisco, Tapestries Publishing, 2000.
On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art, 1900-1950
View online version. Chapter: "Politics and Modernism: The Trial of the Rincon Annex Murals." A collection of essays by national scholars. University of California Press, 1996.
Visionary San Francisco
View PDF version. Chapter: "San Francisco: The City Beautiful." Exhibition catalog for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Prestel Verlag, Munich, 1990.
The Meaning of Gardens
View PDF version. Chapter: "Grace Marchant and the Global Garden." M.I.T. Press, 1990.
The Urban Edge
Chapter: "Urban Waterfront Restoration on the California Coast." California Coastal Conservancy, 1985.
The Anthropology of World's Fairs
View PDF version. Chapter: "Sailing to Byzantium: The Architecture of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition." Edited by Professor Burton Benedict, Lowie Museum of Anthopology and Scolar Press, London and Berkeley, 1983 (reprinted in California History, Summer, 1983.)
SEE ALSO: Articles by Gray Brechin