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Rachel Brahinsky

Rachel Brahinsky is the Faculty Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Affairs at the University of San Francisco. She received her Ph.D in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. Her writing and research focuses on race, gender, and urban development. She is also the chair of the California Studies Association.

Stories by Rachel Brahinsky

World View July 15, 2013
“The Right to the City” in the San Francisco Landscape

Can you see the politics peeking out of the urban fabric that you move through each day? If not, keep looking: evidence of political struggles is built into the San Francisco landscape. There are signs, for example, of the age-old tension over “the right to the city” on... Read more

history, class, civil rights, urban development

Stories by Rachel Brahinsky

“The Right to the City” in the San Francisco Landscape