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July 2009
Wed1LUNCHTIME FORUM12:30pmMapping the Bay Region
LUNCHTIME FORUMWednesday, July 1, 2009 12:30pmHow 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 …
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$5 for non-members
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Thu2LUNCHTIME FORUM12:30pmSilicon Valley & our regional economy
LUNCHTIME FORUMThursday, July 2, 2009 12:30pmUnique among U.S. cities, the key economic driver of San Francisco and the Bay Area developed not in its urban center but in the agricultural countrys …
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Mon6COMMITTEE MEETING12:30pmTransportation Committee CANCELED
COMMITTEE MEETINGMonday, July 6, 2009 12:30pmThe July SPUR Transportation Committee meeting is canceled. SPUR's transportation committee advocates for a wide range of transportation initiativ …
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San Francisco, CA 94105-4015
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$5 for non-members
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Tue7LUNCHTIME FORUM12:30pmThe long arc of Bay Area industrial development
LUNCHTIME FORUMTuesday, July 7, 2009 12:30pmAlthough the Bay Area's industrial economy boomed during the military-based shipbuilding days of WWII, its role as an industrial center began much ear …
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San Francisco, CA 94105-4015
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Wed8WALKING TOUR12:30pmEdge cities: redefining suburbia
WALKING TOURWednesday, July 8, 2009 12:30pmIn the 1980s, edge cities pulled jobs from the central cities and remade the suburbs as car-oriented employment centers. Today, those edge cities are …
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San Francisco, CA 94105-4015
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Thu9LUNCHTIME FORUM12:30pmThe future of open space
LUNCHTIME FORUMThursday, July 9, 2009 12:30pmThe Bay Area leads the nation in open space preservation near its urban core. But the region sits next to the country's most threatened farmland and t …
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San Francisco, CA 94105-4015
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$5 for non-members
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COURSE/CLASS4:00pmUrbanism: The Convenient Solution to the Problem of Climate Change (Part 1 of 5)
COURSE/CLASSThursday, July 9, 2009 4:00pmAs individuals, institutions and governments struggle with the implications of global warming and climate change, we are faced with a dizzying array o …
654 Mission Street,
San Francisco, CA 94105-4015
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$100 for the series
$25 per session
classes@spur.org
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Mon13COMMITTEE MEETING12:30pmSustainable Development Committee
COMMITTEE MEETINGMonday, July 13, 2009 12:30pmAddresses issues related to local and regional climate policy, green buildings, waste and water infrastructure, energy policy and more. Contact Laura …
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San Francisco, CA 94105-4015
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Tue14COMMITTEE MEETING10:00amProject Review Committee
COMMITTEE MEETINGTuesday, July 14, 2009 10:00amThe Project Review Committee looks at proposals for individual buildings, evaluating their potential to enhance the vitality of city life in San Fran …
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EVENING SYMPOSIUM6:00pmThe Rational City: The troubled legacy of top-down planning
EVENING SYMPOSIUMTuesday, July 14, 2009 6:00pmModernist planners and architects sought to address substandard housing conditions and provide light, air and green space through urban planning and d …
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Wed15LUNCHTIME FORUM12:30pmOptimism, Modernism and the cult of expertise
LUNCHTIME FORUMWednesday, July 15, 2009 12:30pmModernism was defined by a faith in the transformative capacity of expertise. Organizations like CIAM and Telesis produced manifestos and visionary sc …
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Thu16LUNCHTIME FORUM12:30pmFederal housing legislation and the built environment
LUNCHTIME FORUMThursday, July 16, 2009 12:30pmFrom the creation of the Federal Housing Administration in 1934 through the HOPE VI program of the last decade, federal housing legislation has had a …
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San Francisco, CA 94105-4015
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$5 for non-members
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COURSE/CLASS4:00pmUrbanism: The Convenient Solution to the Problem of Climate Change (Part 2 of 5)
COURSE/CLASSThursday, July 16, 2009 4:00pmAs individuals, institutions and governments struggle with the implications of global warming and climate change, we are faced with a dizzying array o …
654 Mission Street,
San Francisco, CA 94105-4015
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$100 for the series
$25 per session
classes@spur.org
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Tue21LUNCHTIME FORUM12:30pmFrom class war to class coalition
LUNCHTIME FORUMTuesday, July 21, 2009 12:30pmLabor strife and class conflict characterized much of San Francisco's early history. But the post-war period saw the emergence of pro-growth coalition …
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YOUNG URBANISTS6:00pmUrbanists Happy Hour
YOUNG URBANISTSTuesday, July 21, 2009 6:00pmJoin us for a festive happy hour for all SPUR Young Urbanists and their guests, friends and colleagues—hosted in our new home, the Urban Center. Do …
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San Francisco, CA 94105-4015
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Wed22WALKING TOUR12:30pmHigh Modernism in San Francisco
WALKING TOURWednesday, July 22, 2009 12:30pmJohn Kriken of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill leads a tour of some of the most distinctive and emblematic examples of Modernist architecture and urban …
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Thu23LUNCHTIME FORUM12:30pmFrom urban renewal to contextual planning
LUNCHTIME FORUMThursday, July 23, 2009 12:30pmUrban renewal, the result of top-down planning by government entities with extraordinary land use powers, left deep political and physical scars in Sa …
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San Francisco, CA 94105-4015
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$5 for non-members
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COURSE/CLASS4:00pmUrbanism: The Convenient Solution to the Problem of Climate Change (Part 3 of 5)
COURSE/CLASSThursday, July 23, 2009 4:00pmAs individuals, institutions and governments struggle with the implications of global warming and climate change, we are faced with a dizzying array o …
654 Mission Street,
San Francisco, CA 94105-4015
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$100 for the series
$25 per session
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Mon27COMMITTEE MEETING12:00amHousing Committee - CANCELED
COMMITTEE MEETINGMonday, July 27, 2009HOUSING COMMITTEE WILL NOT MEET ON JULY 27. San Francisco has become one of the most expensive cities in the country. The cost of living here is drivi …
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Tue28EVENING SYMPOSIUM6:00pmThe Protected City: Localism, preservation and the city fabric
EVENING SYMPOSIUMTuesday, July 28, 2009 6:00pmThe Downtown Plan and the Plan for Mission Bay were among the first schemes in a new era of urban planning that responded to the excesses of the Moder …
654 Mission Street,
San Francisco, CA 94105-4015
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$5 for non-members
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Wed29LUNCHTIME FORUM12:30pmFrom trafficways to livable streets
LUNCHTIME FORUMWednesday, July 29, 2009 12:30pmSan Francisco's famous freeway revolt stopped many projects that seem outrageous today, but not before miles of freeways destroyed many neighborhoods, …
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San Francisco, CA 94105-4015
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Thu30LUNCHTIME FORUM12:30pmThe rise of counter-institutions
LUNCHTIME FORUMThursday, July 30, 2009 12:30pmCommunity-based antidotes to the anti-humanist mega-schemes of the Moderns flourished in the 1960s and 1970s, and some morphed into sustainable new mo …
654 Mission Street,
San Francisco, CA 94105-4015
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$5 for non-members
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COURSE/CLASS4:00pmUrbanism: The Convenient Solution to the Problem of Climate Change (Part 4 of 5)
COURSE/CLASSThursday, July 30, 2009 4:00pmAs individuals, institutions and governments struggle with the implications of global warming and climate change, we are faced with a dizzying array o …
654 Mission Street,
San Francisco, CA 94105-4015
[ map ]
$100 for the series
$25 per session
classes@spur.org
