The following books and podcasts were sourced from ULI SF’s YLG Steering Committee members and are updated on a quarterly basis. Please contact Arman Monfared at [email protected] if you would like to submit any feedback on or suggested additions to the list.

We hope you enjoy!

Books About San Francisco

• Season of the Witch by: David Talbot
• Golden Gates by: Conor Dougherty
• From the Ground Up – The Business of Building in the Age of Money by: Douglas Frantz
• Cool Gray City of Love – 49 Views of San Francisco by: Gary Kamiya
• The Barbary Coast – An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld by: Herbert Asbury

Other Great Books About Real Estate

• Order Without Design – How Markets Shape Cities by: Alain Bertaud
• Making it in Real Estate: Starting Out as a Developer by: John McNellis
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by: Matthew Desmond
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities by: Jane Jacobs
• Soft City – Building Density for Everyday Life by: David Sim
• Inventing Future Cities by: Michael Batty
• Rethinking Real Estate: A Roadmap to Technology’s Impact on the World’s Largest Asset Class by: Dror Poleg
• Urban Analytics by: Alex David Singleton, Seth Spielman, and David Folch
• Other People’s Money by: Charles V. Bagli
• The Real Estate Game by: William J. Poorvu
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by: Robert A. Caro
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by: Richard Rothstein
• Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur by: James A. Randel
• Zeckendorf: The autobiography of the man who played a real-life game of Monopoly and won the largest real estate empire in history by: William Zeckendorf
• A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by: Sara Ishikawa

Books About Professional & Personal Growth

• The Defining Decade – Why Your Twenties Matter by: Meg Jay
• Grit by: Angela Duckworth
• StrengthsFinder by: Tom Rath
• Welcome to the United States of Anxiety by: Jen Lancaster
• Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business by: Charles Duhigg
• The Alchemist by: Paulo Coelho
• The Innovator’s DNA by: Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen
• Building An A Team by: Whitney Johnson
• What It Take: Lessons in Pursuit of Excellence by: Stephen A. Schwarzman
• The Book of Beautiful Questions: The Powerful Questions That Will Help You Decide, Create, Connect and Lead by: Warren Berger
• A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas by: Warren Berger
• Predictably Irrational by: Dr. Dan Ariely

Podcasts About Real Estate and Economics!

• Leading Voices with Host and ULI SF member Matt Slepin
• Masters of Business – Bloomberg with Host Barry Ritholtz
• Real Estate Investing For Your Future brought to you by RealCrowd
• Bigger Pockets with Hosts Brandon Turner and David Greene
• Real Perspectives brought to you by The Registry/Mighty Dot Media
• Lusk Perspectives brought to you by the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate
• The Best Minds in Real Estate RCLCO hosted by RCLCO leadership
• Invest Like the Best with Host Patrick O’Shaughnessy
• Pivot – by Vox Media and New York Magazine with Hosts Kara Swisher and NYU Professor Scott Galloway
• Fifth Wall Podcast
• Infill – YIMBY Action
• The Weeds – Zoning our way through it with Host Matt Yglesias and guest Emily Hamilton
• Rethinking with Host Dror Poleg

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