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| Books "Indestructable By Reason of Beauty: The Beaumanance of a Public Library Building" lead essay in a book on the San Francisco Public Library building to be published by Greenwood Press in 2003. Introduction to Fool's Gold: A Carey McWilliams Reader, Heyday Books, 2001.  Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1999.  Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream [with photographer Robert Dawson], Berkeley, University of California Press, 1999. "Phoebe Apperson Hearst as Patron of Architecture and Urban Planning" [chapter in a unpublished catalogue for an exhibition on the Phoebe Hearst International Competition for the University of California], University Art Museum, Berkeley. "A Place of Light and Power: The Restored S.F. Gas Light Company Building," San Francisco, Tapestries Publishing, 2000.  "Pecuniary Emulation: The Role of Tycoons in Imperial City-Building," in Reclaiming San Francisco, City Lights Books, January, 1998. "Politics and Modernism: The Trial of the Rincon Annex Murals" in California: The Modernist Impulse, 1900-1950 [a collection of essays by national scholars] University of California Press, 1996. "San Francisco: The City Beautiful," in Visionary San Francisco, the catalog for a 1990 exhibition at the SF Museum of Modern Art, published by Prestel Verlag, Munich. "Grace Marchant and the Global Garden," in The Meaning of Gardens, M.I.T. Press, 1990. "Sailing to Byzantium: The Architecture of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition," in The Anthropology of World's Fairs, edited by Professor Burton Benedict, Lowie Museum of Anthopology and Scolar Press, London and Berkeley, 1983 (reprinted in California History, Summer, 1983.) "Urban Waterfront Restoration on the California Coast," The Urban Edge, California Coastal Conservancy, 1985. Journals, Periodicals and Newspapers •"Keeping The Faith", San Francisco Chronicle, Tuesday, December 27, 2005 •"High Head in the Deep Below" [a paper co-presented with Noel Kirschenbaum on underground power production in the Comstock mines at the National Association of Mining Historians' Organization in Aberystwyth, to be published in forthcoming NAMHO Proceedings. "•The Broken Promised Land," Terrain, Summer 2002. •"Manifest Destiny at San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition," Aula 2, 2001. •"Power Elites: How UC Berkeley — and Stanford — were founded of, by and for the ruling classes." San Francisco Examiner Magazine, January 30, 2000 •"How Paradise Lost" [from Farewell, Promised Land], Mother Jones, November/December, 1996. •"Conserving the Race: Natural Aristocracies, Eugenics, and the U.S. Conservation Movement," Antipode, July, 1996. •"The Destruction of Knowledge in the Age of Information," The Ampersand [Quarterly of the Pacific Center for the Book Arts], Spring/Summer, 1996 •"Unfinished Business: Bernard Maybeck's Phoebe Hearst Memorial for Cal," California Monthly, November, 1993. •"Termites [the raiding of the Pribiloff seal herds]," Upriver, Downriver, Fall, 1993. •Review of Guide to Eastbay Creeks," Museum of California Magazine, Fall, 1993. •"Ashes to Ashes: Bernard Maybeck's Fireproof Houses," San Francisco Chronicle, November 24, 1991. •"Ruins and How They Get That Way," New York Times, August 11, 1991. •Interview with three Bay activists, Bay On Trial, Spring, 1991. •"Florence Boynton's Temple of the Wings, SF, April, 1991. •"The Cabins at Echo Lake," Countryside, May, 1991. •"Prayers From the Past: Early Synagogues of San Francisco," SF, November, 1990. •"Good Earth: The Terra Cotta Creations of Gladding, McBean, SF, October, 1990. •"Henry Doelger Builds the Sunset," SF, June, 1990. •"Architectural Treasures of Alameda," SF, May, 1990. •"San Francisco's Unbuilt Megafollies," SF, May, 1990. •"Phoebe Hearst's Plan for U.C.," SF, April, 1990. •"New Deal Landscapes," SF, January, 1990. •"Imprisoned By Dreams: Reagan, Focus, and Consumer Media," Bay Guardian, December 28, 1989. •"Public Monuments of San Francisco," SF, November, 1989. •"St. Francis Wood," SF, September, 1989. •"Curse of the Downtown Stadium," Bay Guardian, August 23, 1989. •"Hetch Hetchy's Temples of Water, SF, July, 1989. •"Petaluma Palimpsest," SF, June, 1989. •"The Stones of Colma," SF, May, 1989. •"North Beach of the Senses," Focus, February, 1989. •"Mercury's Lasting Legacy," Peninsula, May, 1988. •"The Lost Creeks," Peninsula, March, 1988. •"Restoring Streams in California's Cities," Headwaters, March-April, 1988. •"Frank Lloyd Wright in Northern California," Northern California Home and Garden, November, 1987. •"Aces Wild," California Monthly, November, 1987. •"USS MISSOURI: The Big Questions Remain," Bay Guardian, August 12-19, 1987. •"Public Gardens of the Bay Area," Focus, July, 1987. •"Sermon on the Mountain" [Mt. San Bruno], Focus, May, 1987. •"Public Art Restoration," Focus, March, 1987. •"The Global Garden," Focus, March, 1987. •"A Span for All Seasons," Focus, January, 1987. •"Let's Build A Library!" Focus, December, 1986. •"Defying the Growth Gods," Focus, October, 1986. •"Choreographer of Space" [Larry Halprin], Focus, August, 1986. •"New Wave Organ" [Frank Oppenheimer], Focus, July, 1986. •"Monadnock Renewed," Focus, May, 1986. •"Forgotten Father" [Charlie Starbuck], Focus, April, 1986. •"Body Politics" [San Francisco cemetery removal]. Focus, March, 1986. •"Freeway Follies," Focus, January, 1986. •"State of Grace," Focus, December, 1985. •"Space Saver" [Frederick Law Olmsted in California, Focus, November, 1985. •"The Wrong Stuff" [Philip Johnson critique], and "Revenge of Mission Bay," Focus, October, 1985. •"A Matter of Trust," [Tim Such and the public trust doctrine], Focus, September, 1985. •"The Fort Mason Renaissance," Focus, August, 1985. •"A Case for Books," Focus, June, 1985. •"San Francisco: History of A Dynamo," Christian Science Monitor, May 29, 1985. •"Crippled Creek Champs" [urban stream restoration], Focus, April, 1985. •"Kingdom of the Dolphins," Focus, March, 1985. •"A Tale of Three Cities" [San Francisco, New York, and Venice compared], and •"Earthly Delights" [David Attenborough], Focus, February, 1985. •"Praising the Preservationists," Focus, January, 1985. •"Sulla Collina: Una Casa di Irvin Goldstine," Abitare, December, 1985. •"Toward A City Worthy of Its Name," Focus, December, 1984 [First of the series called Cityscapes.] •"Down the Drain" [Kesterson poisoning], Focus, August, 1984. •"Sick Transit," Focus, July, 1984. •"Living the Dream in Berkeley," California Monthly, March-April, 1984. •"Hold on to Herbst," San Francisco, March, 1984. •"Progress in San Francisco: It Could Have Been Worse," San Francisco, October, 1983 •"South of Market: The Irrelevance of Urban Planning," San Francisco, July, 1983. •"Fair Extraordinaire," California Monthly, December, 1982. •Book review of Building the Dream by Gwen Wright, California Monthly, May, 1982. •"1360 Montgomery," Metro, September, 1982. •"San Francisco Bay: Progress and Threat," Defenders of Wildlife, August, 1980. •"Mono Lake," Sierra Club Yodeler, February, 1979. •"Mono Lake," Defenders of Wildlife, August, 1980. •"Attic Treasures" [Outdoor theaters and pageants in California], California Monthly, December, 1978. •"A Little Place in the Country" [Victorian estates on The Peninsula], California Monthly, October, 1978. •"Epitaph for a Dying Lake," California Living, October 1, 1978. •"Classical Dreams, Concrete Realities" [Mediocritizing the Berkeley campus], California Monthly, March, 1978. •"History of the Aeolian Harp," Folk Harp Journal, March, 1977. Gray Brechin also wrote numerous articles on the architecture, architects, and preservation issues of San Francisco for the Heritage Newsletter, on the buildings of Berkeley for the Berkeley Gazette and Daily Californian, and on Mono Lake for the Mono Lake Newsletter. |