Recode Decode: Richard Walker

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Historian and urbanist Richard Walker, a professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his latest book, Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area. In this episode: How California has historically been affected by economic growth; the Bay Area’s first tech boom, the 1849 gold rush; why has California had so many booms?; the social impacts of this change; waking up to the downside of tech prosperity; “money is literally burning holes in their pockets”; the "bottleneck effect” that created the housing crisis and shoved out the working class; why “just build more” isn’t a realistic solution; what does “gone city” mean?; taxes, job growth and the coming recession; how the ubiquity of tech will spur innovation — but not necessarily in San Francisco; and why taxing the rich and big corporations creates equality. Today's show is brought to you by Microsoft Azure. Check out: Azure.com/trial to sign up for a trial today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sabotage, hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:05.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:10.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:14.8	Watch the Verges documentary, Lisa's final act, now on YouTube.
0:19.8	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor at Large of Recode.
0:25.4	You may know me as the one person posting disgusting photos of San Francisco on Instagram, but
0:29.4	in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Rico D-code from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:34.4	Today in the red chair is Richard Walker, a professor emeritus at UC Berkeley who studies
0:38.9	human, economic and urban geography as well as the history of California.
0:43.6	He's the author of several books and his most recent one is called Pictures of a Gone
0:47.9	City, tech and the dark side of prosperity in the San Francisco Bay area.
0:52.5	It's a very important topic for people who live here and it's really gotten quite problematic
0:57.2	for those who live here.
0:58.8	Welcome to Rico D-code Richard.
1:00.4	Thank you very much Cara.
1:01.4	Good to be here.
1:02.4	Good.
1:03.4	We both have cold, so we're going to, we're sound very like Husky and everything else in
1:06.2	coffee and it makes me sound better.
1:08.4	Yeah, absolutely.
1:09.4	So let's talk a little bit about your background.
1:11.8	I want to get into this because the issues around San Francisco have never been worse.
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