Written in the months after the earthquake and fire of April 1906, these two essays ask what kind of city should rise from the ashes. Bancroft compares San Francisco with the great planned cities of the world, recalls its growth from the trading hamlet of Yerba Buena, and weighs the grand beautification schemes against the rush to rebuild as before.
A short, impassioned document of the 1906 disaster by California’s foremost nineteenth-century historian. Download the free EPUB.