Michael Rhodes

"Join the Queer Gardens Bike Tour: a free and flat ride visiting queer urban gardeners in their gardens."

"Be a part of the growing demand for a meaningful, environmentally sustainable quality of life.

"How we understand and visualize our region is shaped by the very maps and images we use to represent our environment. Familiar maps of urbanized areas often fail to distinguish between cities and suburbs or detail the connections between them. The ubiquitous BART map, for example, does little to show how to connect with other transit systems. GreenInfo Network’s Larry Orman, former executive director of Greenbelt Alliance, along with Mike Reilly, manager at Stanford University Spatial Analysis Center, and Brian Stokle of NelsonNygaard, examine how the various approaches to mapping the Bay Area influence our definition of the “region" itself."

"True regional planning has been the elusive goal of many generations of Bay Area planners. While the region boasts some great successes – saving the Bay, preserving the greenbelt and the building of BART – we still struggle to adequately manage regional land use. This symposium will trace the current state of regional planning, and assess how new climate change laws give hope for greater regional coordination. Join panelists Radhika Fox of PolicyLink; Mike Teitz, professor emeritus in regional planning at UC Berkeley; Will Travis, executive director of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission; Egon Terplan, SPUR's regional planning director; and exhibition curator Benjamin Grant."

"Stephen Tobriner, professor of architecture emeritus at UC Berkeley, explores Daniel Burnham’s 1905 master plan for San Francisco, a vision for the “Paris of America” that went unrealized in the wake of the 1906 disaster."

"The hills of San Francisco have always been eccentric – and charismatic – but the streets that cross and climb them are a legacy of 19th century planning. UC Berkeley professor Peter Bosselmann explores how the city’s original grid continues to shape contemporary urban planning and design."

"Don't miss it when the SFBC Service Station team hits the streets to offer a little air for your tires to keep you riding smoothly. Are you trained in SFBC outreach and can volunteer?"

"Design a T-Shirt for Park(ing) Day and you could win $1,000. Contest ends June 29, 2009. Full contest details here. "PARK(ing) Day" is an annual event where citizens transform metered parking spaces into temporary parks and other types of social places - from parking spaces to people places! What began as an experiment in San Franciso in reclaiming and remixing public space has grown into a global phenomenon: PARK(ing) Day 2009 will be on Friday, September 18."

Free valet bicycle parking provided.

"he SFBC's Bike Doctors will be doing free bike maintenance like fixing flats and lubing chains at the Bayview Farmers' Market."