Graphic Image or Map of Bioregion:
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- Website:
–Shaping San Francisco
–FoundSF - Contact: Co-directors: Chris Carlsson, LisaRuth Elliott
- Email: shaping@foundsf.org
- Telephone: 415-881-7579
- Mailing Address:
518 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110 - Social Media:
–Facebook
–Instagram
Focus:
Shaping San Francisco, enjoying its 25th year in 2023, is a participatory community history project documenting and archiving overlooked stories and memories of San Francisco. We do this in a variety of ways. We have a vast digital archive at foundsf.org where we invite everyone to contribute to our shared history. We held Public Talks regularly at 518 Valencia; during the pandemic we came up with our new preferred activity: the Urban Forum: Walk ‘n’ Talk, where we explore little visited hilltops, neighborhoods, stairways, and more all over the city. We co-host history programming with other organizations around the Bay Area. We conduct walking and bicycle history tours at least a half dozen times each season, and have two seasons of Talks and Tours each year, wherein we emphasize the intersections between the past and existing ecology and the forces (labor, transit, social movements) that come together to create an urban center upon the land.
Bioregion Description:
We live along the shores of the San Francisco Bay which is fed by dozens of local creeks and waterways, as well as the massive river system of California’s interior.