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Work Life Balance Emeryville is located in a corridor between the cities of Oakland and Berkeley, extending to the shore of the San Francisco Bay just north of the Bay Bridge. It is the home of Pixar Animation Studios, Peet’s Coffee and Tea, Jamba Juice, and Clif Bar. In addition, several well-known biotech and software […]

Biggest Little City in the Bay Area Although Berkeley shares its border with Oakland, its neighbor to the south, its atmosphere is entirely different. Less rough around the edges, Berkeley is more family-oriented and relaxed. Although it is small in size (population 112,580), it is widely known around the entire nation due to both the

Island in the Bay The City of Alameda is located west of the City of Oakland. Originally connected to Oakland as a peninsula, Alameda became an island in the beginning of the 20th century when a canal was dredged between the two cities. Alameda has two main streets: Park Street on the south east side

Let’s go Oakland! The residential area north of the Coliseum BART Station is the start of recent transit oriented development. The Lion Creek Crossings apartment complex was built in 2006 on the site of the Coliseum Gardens public housing complex.  Single family homes are also located in this area bounded by 66th Avenue, International Boulevard,

Neighborhood in Transition The West Oakland neighborhood sits just west of downtown Oakland within the bounds of Interstate 580 to the north and Interstate 980 to the east. It is otherwise surrounded by Interstate 880 and by land owned by the Port of Oakland on the south and west ends.  This residential neighborhood with many

Arts Community Jingletown, also known as the North Kennedy Tract, is a small arts community in Fruitvale, East Oakland, located adjacent to the Oakland Estuary and bordered by the Nimitz Freeway (Interstate 880) and the Park Street and Fruitvale bridges. Jingletown was the site of a Costanoan shellmound, and later grew up into a majority

Convenient access to open space, community-driven revival The Dimond is centered at the intersection of Fruitvale Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard. Before Interstate 580 was built, the borders were roughly School Street to the west, the Montclair Driving Range to the east, Park Avenue / City of Piedmont to the north and Lincoln Boulevard to the

Stream 5 – Pushing the Boundaries: Net Positive Buildings (SB13), CaGBC National Conference and Expo, Vancouver BC, June 4-6, 2013 D. Waldron, Synapse Strategies/University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada A. Cayuela, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada D. Miller, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada ABSTRACT: Emerging approaches support regenerative design and development at the

Plan-it sustainably  By Scott T. Edmondson, AICP, Northern News, September 2014 A peek into the future of planning and sustainable urban development tools What if SimCity were more than just a video game and you could imagine your city in the future, apply real-life zoning standards, and whip up 3D visualization of the resulting urban