The Bay Area was a groundswell for experiments in communal living during the 1960s and ’70s. Few would associate the utopian spirit of those projects, which were often motivated by the desire to leave the city and its ills, with the urban encampments that have come to shape the region’s public landscape in more recent years. In Front Street: Resistance and Rebirth in the Tent Cities of Techlandia (304 pages; Astra House), however, Brian Barth makes a case for a spiritual lineage leading directly from the countercultural collectivism of the ’60s to the camps cropping up in San Jose and […]
On ‘Front Street: Resistance and Rebirth in the Tent Cities of Techlandia’ by Brian Barth
by Ana Tuazon
