What will Oakland look like in the future? What developments are in the works? What are visions of the Oakland that we want to see? Will we have more gnomes? Will police misconduct ever end? Will we all have access to safe neighborhoods and educational opportunities and glorious libraries and community farms and hackerspaces on every corner? Are we going to be a diverse community that has a government that enables everyone to be a part of the process of determining what the future of our city will look like?
Planned Coliseum redevelopment. Look at how it is going to literally be a beacon of....something....in the middle of Oakland! [source]
- West Oakland Urban Farm and Park - City Slicker Farms has begun work on a new kind of park/farm at the corner of 28th and Peralta St. in West Oakland.
- West Oakland Specific Plan
- Coliseum City - A plan to create a retail and entertainment halo in the Coliseum neighborhood. [source]
- Oakland Greenway
- The Black Futurist Working Group
- Choose - A mural at Youth UpRising depicting possible futures for the youth of Oakland.
- California High-Speed Rail
- Oakland as a model of sustainable preparedness
- Proposed A's stadium by Jack London Square in the Port of Oakland. [source]
- Here's a neat proposal to tear down 980 (from a very nice blog on urban issues across the Bay Area called Vibrant Bay Area)
- Check out lots of community proposals written right here on the wiki for what the future of Oakland could look like!
Do all photos of planned stadia have to be dramatically drawn at night with lights all over the place??? This one is a proposed A's stadium. [source]...now we've learned about Future Oakland, what about Unbuilt Oakland?
Why does this page exist? There's something about the power of imagination...something about poetics..
