SPUR Forum: The Early Public Garages of San Francisco
From SPUR:
5:25 PM PDT on July 3, 2015
From SPUR:
Image courtesy of Flickr user Thomas Hawk.
Automobiles exploded in popularity throughout the quarter century following the 1906 earthquake and fire, requiring new thinking about where to store, maintain and showcase them. The Early Public Garages of San Francisco offers a perspective of the results by tracing the design history of these buildings as they masked their uses behind facades of surprising grace and nobility before falling prey to changing times.
+ Mark Kessler / UC Davis
Aaron was the editor of Streetsblog San Francisco from January 2012 until October 2015. He joined Streetsblog in 2010 after studying rhetoric and political communication at SF State University and spending a semester in Denmark.
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