Gray Brechin

Gray A. Brechin (born September 2, 1947) is an American geographer, architectural historian, and author. He is the founder and Project Scholar of The Living New Deal based at the U.C. Berkeley Department of Geography. Brechin is a frequent and popular speaker, especially on subjects related to the history and legacy of the New Deal and the history of San Francisco.^[1]

Brechin is known for his early work on the

In 1992, Brechin and photographer Robert Dawson were awarded the Lange-Taylor Prize by Duke University, funding their collaboration on a five-year project that was published in March 1999 as Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream.^[2] The San Diego Historical Society reviewed the book as a necessary reference "to all California environmentalists and policymakers", though its photographs and text focused largely on Northern California rather than the whole state.^[4]

Dawson and Brechin decided in 2002 to write a book documenting the many construction and beautification efforts of the 1930s sponsored by the

• Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin (1999), University of California Press[8]
• Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream (with photographer Robert Dawson), (1999) University of California Press.
• The Living New Deal

References

External links

• Gray Brechin, Ph. D. -- Historical Geographer & Author
• "A look at the New Deal's local legacy", Episode 73 podcast by East Bay Yesterday

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