Chronicle Guest Speaker:
John King, Writer on Architecture & Urban Design
- What makes a good downtown for a city of Berkeley's size?
- A true civic purpose, a reason for being
- A mix of different things to do when you are there
- retail—essentials and frills
- quick places to grab coffee and fine dining
- An enticing landscape
- Open spaces
- Buildings of different eras, scales
- Different functions for spaces
- Shops
- Housing
- Social activity
- Genuine crossroads
- Tightly knit with the community
- Sense that something is going on, unexpected & fresh
- 'Un-quantified' measurement of downtown
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