SPUR: Up Your Alley: Small Streets to Public Spaces

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San Francisco’s alleys and small streets offer great opportunities for intimate, human-scale open spaces while improving pedestrian conditions and the environment. Join several practitioners engaged in retrofitting these spaces in conversation about the opportunities and pitfalls: Dave Winslow of the SF Planning department on Linden Alley and Kevin Conger of CMG Landscape Architects on the Yerba Buena Street Life Plan.

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