Although the Bay is a natural entity borne of great rivers draining the entire Central Valley of California, every inch of its shoreline today is the product of human activity, by either intent or incident. — Center for Land Use Interpretation
On September 10, the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) will release Around the Bay: Man-Made Sites of Interest in the San Francisco Bay Region -- the second book in its "Man-Made Sites of Interest" series. Aimed to coincide with the historic opening of the Bay Bridge expansion, the book will feature aerial portraits of locations along the Bay's waterfront, accompanied by historical explanations for the site's status. The CLUI was founded by Matthew Coolidge, who also authored Around the Bay, and devotes its exhibition and research spaces to "understanding the nature and extent of human interaction with the earth's surface, and in finding new meanings in the intentional and incidental forms that we individually and collectively create."
With its headquarters in Culver City, the CLUI has limited open hours for viewing its archives and current exhibitions. The book is available to purchase online through CLUI's bookstore.
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So damn nice that "the Stick" is back to being "the Stick," instead of "3 Com" or "Monster" Park.
The Bay, around the cities of San Francisco and Oakland, and points north, is indeed a bay with discernible contours. At its southern end, its ecology do not make for much definition nor much use, and one sees that the built environment starts quite a ways back from its shoreline. In truly urban places in the San Francisco Bay, it is very much a defining feature, if not the most defining.
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