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.
Show Notes
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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