After the 1906 Earthquake and fire, San Francisco leaders built relief cottages to house the homeless. Some of those tiny ...
Marc Norton’s bedroom looks out at the hollowed scaffolding where a pair of rare San Francisco cottages had stood since 1907. Now, if you squint, you can peer through the wooden beams to a house on ...
Foreword / by Paul S. Sutter -- Introduction -- Making land, making a city -- Catastrophe and its interpretations -- Bread lines and earthquake cottages -- Rebuilding and the politics of place -- ...