Podcasts about gone city tech

Today's episode of APEX Express is preempted by special programming for KPFA's 2025 Spring Fund Drive. Liam O'Donoghue speaks with renown geographer and author Richard Walker about his view of cities as living organisms and the role industry plays in development and ongoing health of cities. This live event which took place in Berkeley, California on March 27, 2025. To support our mission and receive Richard Walker's book Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area as a thank-you gift, please donate here or call (800) 439-5732 (800-HEY-KPFA).   The post Special Spring Fund Drive Programming: Richard Walker on the Role of Industry in Building Cities appeared first on KPFA.

From the gold rush to the tech boom, this region has been shaped by successive waves of business growth and decline. Every generation, new investments, innovations, and industries have led the way in building the Bay Area, attracting immigrants, and impacting every aspect of life here. For better or worse, the legacy of these trends is the world we live in today. In this episode, urban geographer Richard Walker, author of “Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area,” discusses the pros and cons of these boom/bust cycles and explores the history of local development through the lens of Big Business. As the Bay Area's economy faces an uncertain future under the threat of a global trade war and a looming “AI revolution,” this wide-ranging conversation gives context to our often bewildering present. Don't forget to follow the East Bay Yesterday Substack for updates on events, boat tours, exhibits, and other local history news: https://eastbayyesterday.substack.com/ For photos and links related to this episode, visit: https://eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/industry-makes-and-breaks-the-bay-area/ Donate to keep this show alive: www.patreon.com/eastbayyesterday

In just a few short days we’re going to reach the close of another decade, and here in the Bay Area an awful lot has happened over the course of that decade -- from athletic triumphs, to the tech boom and backlash, to a series of punishing wildfire disasters -- so after a whole decade of nonstop Bay Area news, the question is what’s still worth remembering?  On this edition of KCBS In Depth we look back at some of the biggest Bay Area news stories from the past ten years to find out what they might have to teach us about the next ten.  Guests:  Roger Noll, a Stanford emeritus professor of economics who specializes in the business of sports Richard Walker, an emeritus professor of economic geography at UC Berkeley and the author of "Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area"  Dr. Scott Stephens, a professor of fire science and the chair of the Division of Ecosystem Science at UC Berkeley specializing in wildfire science, fire ecology and forest policy management Hosts: KCBS Radio reporters Keith Menconi, Doug Sovern, Matt Bigler, Margie Shafer and KCBS Sports Anchor Kevin Radich 

Richard Walker, professor emeritus of geography at U.C. Berkeley, is a student of the renown Marxist geographer David Harvey. Walker brings an approach to his analysis that includes, economics, urban design, politics, and the environment, as well as the history of California. He’s the author of several books, including his most recent: "Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area

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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Doug Henwood interviews UC Berkeley professor emeritus Richard Walker, about his latest book, Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area. The post Behind the News – May 24, 2018 appeared first on KPFA.

In this 52-minute podcast, Richard Walker, author of Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity, discusses the negatives impacts that the Tech Boom has had in the analog world - housing, sprawl, labor, you name it.... Richard talks about the origins of the book, then moves on to  inequality (min. 6), why we hate the word "class" (min. 11) and then discusses the culture of commuting and the tech buses (min. 13). He then highlights regulation challenges (min. 25), the push-pull of private vs. public services (min. 33), tax optimization and whether sustained regulatory chance is possible (min. 40).  POST-INTERVIEW BONUS: Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Pictures of the Gone World, no. 11 - Closing out his first century, the eternal poet reads the poem that fits so frighteningly well with the Bay Area's Tech Boom and its impacts, despite being written in 1955 (min. 53). Special thanks to City Lights Books for their kind permission.   Feed your soul. Keep listening. 

Richard Walker discusses his eye-opening book “Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area.” The post Fund Drive Special: Richard Walker on the Bay Area appeared first on KPFA.

‘All of the teams are working end-to-end in a group of a good handful of Flexporters, meaning that the clients will know exactly who to go to if they can’t find the answer in the platform and self-serve themselves.’ - Anders Schulze Welcome to the seventh episode of the ETAPP podcast, where industry professionals give insight in the digital transformation of the maritime and logistics sector. Hosted by Sven Goyvaerts, journalist and business analyst based in Antwerp. In this episode we welcome Anders Schulze, General Manager at Flexport’s San Francisco headquarters. Flexport was founded 5 years ago and it is the first international freight forwarder and customs broker built around an online dashboard. This episode is supported by Dockflow (https://www.dockflow.be), an Antwerp-based startup leveraging new technologies for better data governance in global trade networks. The compilation video of Ter land, ter zee & in de lucht can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIZfhXHTuv0&t=30s For a review of Richard A. Walker’s book ‘Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity’, go to https://brooklynrail.org/2018/04/field-notes/Only-Connect-A-Review-of-Richard-Walkers-Pictures-of-a-Gone-City Sailing on San Francisco bay provided by https://www.mayonthebay.com Theme music by Sven Goyvaerts, Gonzalo Silva & Jethro Tull - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
In this conversation recorded on Wednesday April 4th, we discuss tech culture in San Francisco, Flexport’s product, their Net Promoter Score and their process of how they manage to achieve it.  
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