The San Francisco Civic Center: A History of the Design, Controversies, and Realization of the City Beautiful Masterpiece

The San Francisco Civic Center tells the 150-year story of San Francisco’s city halls and Civic Center. The grandest collection of monumental municipal buildings in the United States, the Civic Center is one of the finest achievements of the American reformist City Beautiful movement and a stunning manifestation of one of the nation’s most dynamic and creative cities.