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Ask HN: Any good Silicon Valley Photo coffee table books?

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Re: Ask HN: Any good Silicon Valley Photo coffee table books?

#21

A bit of an aside. But I would love a book on the comprehensive history of silicon valley up to and describing the crisis we face today of housing and everyone leaving.

> the crisis we face today of housing and everyone leaving

Well, which is it? ;)

Re: Ask HN: Any good Silicon Valley Photo coffee table books?

#22

A bit of an aside. But I would love a book on the comprehensive history of silicon valley up to and describing the crisis we face today of housing and everyone leaving.

So, I bought this and haven’t actually read it yet, so take my suggestion with a grain of salt, but I’ve _heard_ that this, from 2017, is good: https://www.amazon.com/Peopling-Silicon-Valley-1940-Present/...

I read this ages ago and it was good, but it’s 24 years old now: https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Silicon-Valley-Entrepre...

Re: Ask HN: Any good Silicon Valley Photo coffee table books?

#24

A bit of an aside. But I would love a book on the comprehensive history of silicon valley up to and describing the crisis we face today of housing and everyone leaving.

The book would be short. The “me generation” takes control, zeroes interest rates after they crash the world economy in 2008. Roll the clock forward 10 years, nimbyism plus importing cheap labor and allowing the housing market to be used as a Ponzi scheme because who cares about younger generations as long as the children of the 60s can buy vanity wineries, and all own multi-million dollar homes, drive corvettes or whatever Biden is ridin.

Re: Ask HN: Any good Silicon Valley Photo coffee table books?

#25

Not a book, and a bit self promotional, but I have a small photo series I worked on https://mkaz.com/silicon-valley/ Also, look for Silicon Valley '07 by Gabriele Basilico, it's a photo book - not a huge coffee table book but pretty good with about 80-100 photos from 2007

Nice work. That Sun Microsystems one should be the same as the Facebook one, but the back of that sign ;) (as I see you've included in the FB writeup. Good show)

Re: Ask HN: Any good Silicon Valley Photo coffee table books?

#28

A bit of an aside. But I would love a book on the comprehensive history of silicon valley up to and describing the crisis we face today of housing and everyone leaving.

The book would be short. The “me generation” takes control, zeroes interest rates after they crash the world economy in 2008. Roll the clock forward 10 years, nimbyism plus importing cheap labor and allowing the housing market to be used as a Ponzi scheme because who cares about younger generations as long as the children of the 60s can buy vanity wineries, and all own multi-million dollar homes, drive corvettes or w…

I'm still waiting on my winery and my Corvette, but maybe that's because I was born in the 1950s.

Re: Ask HN: Any good Silicon Valley Photo coffee table books?

#29
I bought San Francisco Dream (Yoko Takahashi) a while back. It had a lot of photos that reminded me of what it felt like when I had just moved here.

Possibly not an answer to your question, but just in case someone else reading finds it interesting.

https://leicastoresf.com/collections/lssf-photobooks/product...

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