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Tue
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6:30 PM - Model City: Designing San Francisco
5:00 PM - Visitacion Valley History Nights
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11:00 AM - Mapping Our Memories
2:00 PM - Reading the Model at Bayview
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12
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11:30 AM - Let's Build a City!
6:00 PM - Open Mapping Workshop with Mapbox
6:00 PM - Yes, I Live Here!
6:30 PM - Reading the Model at Sunset
5:00 PM - Visitacion Valley History Nights
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10:30 AM - Hidden Waters: A Walking Tour of Mission Bay
11:00 AM - Go West! Over Hill and Dale Bike Tour
1:00 PM - Bayview Stories: Past, Present, Future
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6:00 PM - Reading the Model at Excelsior
6:30 PM - The History of Eureka Valley
3:00 PM - Let's Build a City!
3:00 PM - Mini City Tour
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10:00 AM - Genealogy Research Lab
2:00 PM - Make a West Portal Zine!
3:30 PM - Putting West Portal on the Map
5:00 PM - Visitacion Valley History Nights
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12:00 PM - Mini City Tour
2:30 PM - Freestyle Watercolor Painting
3:00 PM - Light Up Paper Houses
2:00 PM - Reading the Model at Mission
2:00 PM - Reading the Model at Visitacion Valley
30
Jan
30/01/2019
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Will San Francisco sink before the next “big one”? Will N95 masks become cool? Climate change is reshaping our landscape and behaviors at a rapid pace. Join us as we explore how a city can focus its efforts to maintain the urban area in the face of rising sea levels, earthquakes, and regional fires, and what can we learn from the past about an unpredictable future.
02
Feb
02/02/2019
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
05
Feb
05/02/2019
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
05
Feb
05/02/2019
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
06
Feb
06/02/2019
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
08
Feb
08/02/2019
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
"If you could make a map of the perfect Bernal Heights, what would it look like? Come with your best ideas, and we will have the materials for you to make an original map displaying your vision for an even better Bernal!
Artwork will be put on display so patrons can vote for their favorite. Prizes will be awarded!"
08
Feb
08/02/2019
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
09
Feb
09/02/2019
11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Department of Memory Bicycle Tours: “Take Part” in San Francisco 1938-2019
Led by Shaping San Francisco, all rides visit at least a half dozen branch libraries and their displays of the San Francisco Model. To reach these various parts of the City requires crossing ridges and valleys—sometimes more steep, sometimes less so.
Difficulty Level: Moderate
10
Feb
10/02/2019
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
12
Feb
Learn about OpenStreetMap, the free open-source mapping platform that people anywhere can improve and edit. We'll hear about ways that OpenStreetMap is used and then sign up for an account and learn how to contribute to the map. In the second half of this workshop, we'll use OpenStreetMap to help a humanitarian effort. Presented by volunteers from Mapbox.
12
Feb
12/02/2019
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
What do you like about your neighborhood? What would you like to add to it? Come make a map with your own ideas. You’ll have paint, glitter, markers, fabric and more! Tell us your thoughts. Do you like to shop with your family on Mission Street? What do you see when you walk to school? There was an old movie theater on Mission Street, if it were still there, what movies would you like to see? Do you like music? Would you like to listen to it in McLaren Park? How do you like to dance? Can you sing a song of you? Would you like to float a boat in McNab Lake? How does a parade of your neighborhood look? You can add your ideas to an even bigger map and take your picture in front of the whole thing.
13
Feb
13/02/2019
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
In this conversation, speakers from diverse fields and backgrounds will discuss how the landscape of San Francisco has changed as the city has expanded, and how communities have been impacted by complex environmental factors. With increased demand for housing, contested and polluted areas have been opened up to more development. What will this mean for those who currently live, work, and play in those neighborhoods, or for those who might move there in the future?
13
Feb
13/02/2019
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
16
Feb
16/02/2019
11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Department of Memory Bicycle Tours: “Take Part” in San Francisco 1938-2019
Led by Shaping San Francisco, all rides visit at least a half dozen branch libraries and their displays of the San Francisco Model. To reach these various parts of the City requires crossing ridges and valleys—sometimes more steep, sometimes less so.
Difficulty Level: High
16
Feb
16/02/2019
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project will host a storytelling booth at the Linda Brooks-Burton Branch library. Residents of and community members with a meaningful connection to the Bayview are invited to view the San Francisco city model on display at the library and contribute their oral histories to a collective narrative of the past, present, and future of the neighborhood.
19
Feb
19/02/2019
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
20
Feb
20/02/2019
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
20
Feb
20/02/2019
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
21
Feb
21/02/2019
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
San Francisco is both a City of bold vision that can lead a nation in a new direction and a City that anchors itself firmly in history. Forces for change and preservation push and pull through economic cycles to build the physical City that we see today. In large parts of the city, the hills and humanity are unchanged from the 1938 model. In the Downtown and SoMa neighborhoods, new hills rise from building clusters. When San Francisco allows growth, it does so with demands for public benefits such affordable housing, childcare, open space, art and metering. Join the city planners who convened these public discussions around downtown growth from 1970’s to today, as they explore the ideas, people and power associated with growth in the City by the Bay.
23
Feb
Department of Memory Bicycle Tours: “Take Part” in San Francisco 1938-2019
Led by Shaping San Francisco, all rides visit at least a half dozen branch libraries and their displays of the San Francisco Model. To reach these various parts of the City requires crossing ridges and valleys—sometimes more steep, sometimes less so.
Difficulty Level: Moderate
23
Feb
23/02/2019
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Urban areas do not grow equitably, and San Francisco is no stranger to disturbing and unjust displacements and migrations. Speakers who live in and work with the Western Addition, Potrero Hill, and Visitacion Valley discuss the impact of displacement and gentrification on their neighborhoods and share perspectives on what the city as a whole can learn from their plight/flight.
25
Feb
25/02/2019
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
While enormous federal feats like the Works Progress Administration or the Public Library System may seem utopic in 2019, they were the results of mass organization. What can we learn from the New Deal and from the grassroots progressive movements that have historically thrived in San Francisco? Where is this work being done today by activist groups, labor unions, and small business organizations? What can we look to in San Francisco’s past to inform the future and build better communities?
26
Feb
26/02/2019
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
27
Feb
During the New Deal, the San Francisco Planning Department commissioned a large-scale model of the city, complete with buildings, trees and roads. The model was kept in crates for decades, like a time capsule of San Francisco in the late 1930s. The model is filled with detail, but how can we evaluate it as a historical record? Luckily, we have data and tools we can use to compare the model to the living city. During this program, we will use 1938 aerial photographs of The Haight, The Panhandle and Alamo Square to analyze the model for completeness, accuracy and detail. Then, using modern satellite imagery, we will investigate how the city has changed over the past 80 years.
27
Feb
27/02/2019
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Some of our bridges are golden, some are gray, but perhaps the most interesting ones are invisible. San Francisco’s infrastructures, both physical and social, enable and inhibit movement across and around the city. How are the Presidio and Bayview-Hunters Point connected? Why do some people feel uncomfortable crossing Van Ness Avenue? Join us as we explore the invisible connections and barriers created by people, as well as geography.
02
Mar
02/03/2019
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
"The Fillmore (1999), an Emmy-winning PBS documentary, tells the dramatic story -- the rise and fall (and rise again?) of San Francisco's premier Black community, as it faced urban renewal.
The film chronicles neighborhood history, including the 1906 earthquake, the World War II removal of Japanese citizens, & the tumultuous 1960's. A discussion with film maker Peter L. Stein to follow.
02
Mar
02/03/2019
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
03
Mar
03/03/2019
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
Event Type
Library Branch
- Anza
- Bayview /Linda Brooks Burton
- Bernal Height
- Chinatown
- Eureka Valley
- Excelsior
- Glen Park
- Golden Gate Valley
- Ingleside
- Main
- Marina
- Merced
- Mission
- Mission Bay Branch
- Noe Valley
- North Beach
- Oceanview
- Ortega
- Park
- Parkside
- Portola
- Potrero
- Presidio
- Public Knowledge (SFMOMA)
- Richmond
- Sunset
- Visitacion Valley
- West Portal
- Western Addition