Art renews San Francisco: Embarcadero Freeway demolished

What may be the most gratifying urban scene in any American city today is actually an area of rubble and destruction -- the demolition of the Embarcadero Freeway, a double-decked eyesore of roaring traffic that has blighted this city's waterfront since the mid-1950's.Read more...

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In 1991, HUD had taken over Geneva Towers, twin 20-story highrises in San Francisco’s Visitacion Valley neighborhood. Originally built as market-rate housing, and privately owned, the Towers had become a major crime-ridden blight Read more...

Many men and women of good will have been involved in work with Art through the chapters in the California State Assembly, as Mayor of San Francisco, as Regional Director for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, to joint efforts in the community, nation and internationally. Read more...