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Self-Guided Walking and Bike Tours Anytime!
Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories
Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories
While you are "sheltering-in-place" or just keeping your distance while walking or biking around San Francisco, we want to encourage you to take advantage of Chris Carlsson's new book, Hidden San Francisco. Not only is it a great new history of the City, but it features four multi-day bike tours with 85 different stops to help you see San Francisco in a new light. There is also an appendix with five walking tours 44 more stops; any walking tour can be done in a couple of hours. If you've been on a Shaping San Francisco tour--whether on foot, on a bicycle, or on our new bay cruise--you'll love this book. You can order them directly from us using paypal. NEW! Check out the emerging "baker's dozen" of short videos based on some of the "stops" in the book.
Shaping San Francisco's Public Talks are on hiatus until 2021, but you can check out our 14 years of past Talks here.The past few years have been archived on video too, so look for links to videos there too. We have recommenced our Bay Cruises, next ones are July 24 and August 28. BOOK NOW! July 24 is already sold out, but lots of room remains on the August 28 cruise. More dates in the Fall to come.
Walking Tours — Summer 2020
Social, historical, and critical tours through San Francisco.
All the city guidelines should be observed while we live in this time of Covid-19. That means everyone is required to wear a covering (bandana, mask, scarf) over the nose and mouth. We will ask each of you to maintain physical distance of six feet from others who do not reside in your home. We suggest you have hand sanitizer at the ready. Public restrooms are also likely not going to be an option.
Saturday, July 18—Beer, Dunes, and Trains
Saturday, August 15—Market Street: The Contested Boulevard
Bicycle Tours
“Cycles of History,” our social, historical, and critical tours through San Francisco by bicycle.
Our fabulous bicycle tours are led by Critical Mass co-founder Chris Carlsson, with help from LisaRuth Elliott.
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All the city guidelines should be observed while we live in this time of Covid-19. That means everyone is required to wear a covering (bandana, mask, scarf) over the nose and mouth. We will ask each of you to maintain physical distance of six feet from others who do not reside in your home. We suggest you have hand sanitizer at the ready. Public restrooms are also likely not going to be an option.
NEXT BIKE TOUR » Sunday, October 18, 12-4pm
Food History Politics
RSVP shaping@foundsf.orgExplore Shaping San Francisco:
Ecology Emerges
Discussions and reflections on the history of Bay Area ecological activism, based on oral histories documenting the past 50 years.
Ecology Emerges is an oral history gathering project to explore the past 50 years of ecological activism in the Bay Area and the role that individual and institutional memories play in the development, policy proposals, and interrelationships that together make up the existing networks of ecological politics. We document the living ecological activist movement, in their own words, but also in a larger context of urban growth and globalization.
Oral Histories
Shaping San Francisco, as part of our ongoing work, sits down with people who have stories to tell and conducts oral history interviews.
Check them out here.
"Editor's Pick Tour" from FoundSF.org
Comprised of over 1,400 pages, and 2,500 historical photos, the wiki-based archive FoundSF.org is the product of hundreds of contributors, regular people who were compelled by the chance to investigate some piece of this City's past.
Shaping San Francisco is fiscally sponsored by Independent Arts & Media, a California non-profit corporation.