YLG Steering Committee Book List
The following books and podcasts were sourced from ULI SF’s YLG Steering Committee members and are updated on a quarterly basis.
We hope you enjoy!
Books About San Francisco
- Season of the Witch
- Golden Gates
- From the Ground Up – The Business of Building in the Age of Money
- Cool Gray City of Love – 49 Views of San Francisco
- The Barbary Coast – An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld
Other Real Estate Books
- Order Without Design – How Markets Shape Cities
- A Field Guide to American Houses
- Making it in Real Estate: Starting Out as a Developer
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- Soft City – Building Density for Everyday Life
- Inventing Future Cities
- Rethinking Real Estate: A Roadmap to Technology’s Impact on the World’s Largest Asset Class
- Urban Analytics
- Other People’s Money
- The Real Estate Game
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
- Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur
- Zeckendorf: The autobiography of the man who played a real-life game of Monopoly and won the largest real estate empire in history
- A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Books About Career & Professional Growth
- The Defining Decade – Why Your Twenties Matter
- Grit
- StrengthsFinder
- Welcome to the United States of Anxiety
- Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
- The Alchemist
- The Innovator’s DNA
- Building An A Team
- What It Take: Lessons in Pursuit of Excellence
- The Book of Beautiful Questions: The Powerful Questions That Will Help You Decide, Create, Connect and Lead
- A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
Podcasts!
- Leading Voices
- Masters of Business – Bloomberg
- Real Estate Investing For Your Future
- Bigger Pockets
- Real Perspectives
- Lusk Perspectives
- The Best Minds in Real Estate RCLCO
- Invest Like the Best
- Pivot – by Vox Media and New York Magazine
- Fifth Wall Podcast
- Infill – YIMBY Action
- The Weeds – Zoning our way through it
- Rethinking
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