Opening party: Reclaim Market Street! Exhibition

From SPUR:

In 2015, Market Street will be remade as the culmination of a four-year public process called the Better Market Street Project. Reclaim Market Street!, created by the Studio for Urban Projects, augments this ongoing community program by staging a series of interventions that engage the public in changing the street. Accompanying these events is an exhibition at the San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR). The exhibition will provide context and depth to the pilot projects that take place over the course of the exhibition, highlighting the many ways in which cities, nationally and internationally, are engaged in reimagining their public spaces through experimental urban planning. Please check http://spur.org/exhibitions for related events and programming.

Join us at the SPUR Urban Center Gallery on September 6 to celebrate the opening of Reclaim Market Street! with spirited gallery talks, refreshments and presentations.

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