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68. Through the Portal: What We Can Learn from the Ferry Building
Through multiple earthquakes, misguided urban renewal schemes
and changing economic conditions, the Ferry Building has stood at the foot of San Francisco’s Market Street since 1898.
In his book, “Portal: San Francisco’s Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities,” John King, the urban design critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, tells Unfrozen what we can learn from the indefatigable icon, and what that might mean for the future of downtowns in this uncertain era.
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Intro/Outro: “Ride Captain Ride,” by Blues Image
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Discussed:
A Trip Down Market Street
The City Beautiful Movement
A. Page Brown
California Building at the 1893 Columbian Exposition
Embarcadero Freeway
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
The Key System
Alameda Ferry
Golden Gate Bridge
Dianne Feinstein
Ballot measure 1986 – tear down the Embarcadero Freeway?
Art Agnos
Loma Prieta Earthquake, 1989
Ghirardelli Square
Lawrence Halprin
Faneuil Hall
Wilson Meany (Sullivan)
Chez Panisse
Hallidie Plaza
The Doom Loop
Union Square
Hayes Valley
Dogpatch
Parklets
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By Daniel Safarik and Greg Lindsay
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Through multiple earthquakes, misguided urban renewal schemes
and changing economic conditions, the Ferry Building has stood at the foot of San Francisco’s Market Street since 1898.
In his book, “Portal: San Francisco’s Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities,” John King, the urban design critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, tells Unfrozen what we can learn from the indefatigable icon, and what that might mean for the future of downtowns in this uncertain era.
--
Intro/Outro: “Ride Captain Ride,” by Blues Image
--
Discussed:
A Trip Down Market Street
The City Beautiful Movement
A. Page Brown
California Building at the 1893 Columbian Exposition
Embarcadero Freeway
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
The Key System
Alameda Ferry
Golden Gate Bridge
Dianne Feinstein
Ballot measure 1986 – tear down the Embarcadero Freeway?
Art Agnos
Loma Prieta Earthquake, 1989
Ghirardelli Square
Lawrence Halprin
Faneuil Hall
Wilson Meany (Sullivan)
Chez Panisse
Hallidie Plaza
The Doom Loop
Union Square
Hayes Valley
Dogpatch
Parklets
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