About Richard A. Walker

RICHARD WALKER is Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught from 1975 to 2012. He has written on a diverse range of topics, including co-authoring two classics in economic geography, The Capitalist Imperative (1989) and The New Social Economy (1992). He has written extensively on California, including The Conquest of Bread (2004) and The Atlas of California (2013)(co-authored), and on the San Francisco Bay Area, in The Country in the City (2007) and Pictures of a Gone City (2018). Walker has received awards for his work from the Fulbright program, Guggenheim Foundation, Association of American Geographers, California Studies Association, and Western History Association. Prof. Walker is currently the Director of the Living New Deal, a public service project to educate Americans about the achievements of the federal programs under President Franklin D. Roosevelt