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Modern Architecture Hill Climb: Bicycle Ride
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“Join architects & SFBC members David Baker and Robin Levitt and planner Rob Bregoff for a guided ride past some of the city’s most spectacular post-earthquake homes. It will look at works by Second Bay Area Tradition architects and contemporaries, including buildings by Richard Neutra, William Wurster, Gardner Dailey, Henry Hill, and Anshen + Allen. […]
This Week in Livable Streets Events
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This week is packed full of stimulating discussions to work your brain, and wraps up with the last Sunday Streets of the season to work your body. The Labor History Bike Tour will do a little of both! Here are the week’s highlights. Tuesday: SPUR Lunchtime Forum: Job sprawl and the polycentric megaregion. Is the […]
San Jose Celebrates First ViaVelo, Opens Downtown Streets to People
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A family enjoying the warm day and car-free streets. Photos: Matthew Roth. San Jose kicked off its first ViaVelo Saturday with the opening of seven blocks of San Fernando Street downtown to bicycle riders, skaters, and pedestrians who enjoyed five hours of car-free space. Several hundred people showed up, many of them families and the […]
This Week: Define the Bay Area, Activating Alleys, 8th Ave. Neighborhood Way
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Here are this week’s highlights from the Streetsblog calendar: Tuesday How Would You Define the Bay Area? Is the Bay Area just the nine counties that touch the Bay? That definition doesn’t capture our patterns of working, playing and connecting in our megalopolis. Join SPUR for a workshop in crowd-mapping and an exercise to understand how to define […]
Update on BART Work Between Glen Park and Daly City
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While the rest of the Bay Area was heading to the beach this Labor Day weekend, BART was working around the clock between Glen Park and Daly City, repairing tracks and switches. This was the fourth weekend closure necessary for the work. As before, bus bridges were provided between Daly City, Balboa Park and Glen […]
This Week in Livable Streets Events
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This week, join a screening and discussion of the film The End of Suburbia, get a sneak peek at work being done on the city’s library branches, and spot some of the city’s avian wildlife on two wheels. Here are the highlights from the Streetsblog calendar: Tuesday: SPUR Lunchtime Forum: Greening Apartment Buildings. Join green […]