scholarly journals Analysis of Functional Effects of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake on the San Francisco Bay Area Road Network and Evaluation of Traffic Management

1992 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 103-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroshi WAKABAYASHI ◽  
Hiroyuki KAMEDA
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Road Network ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Loma Prieta Earthquake ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Loma Prieta

scholarly journals Flood-Induced Commute Disruption in the San Francisco Bay Area and Beyond

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Indraneel Kasmalkar ◽  
Katherine Serafin ◽  
Yufei Miao ◽  
Ian Avery Bick ◽  
Derek Ouang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Road Network ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Network Connectivity ◽  
Urban Traffic ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Flood Exposure

As sea levels rise, urban traffic networks in low-lying coastal areas face an increasing risk offlood disruption and commute delays. We hypothesize that road network connectivity rather than flood exposure governs commute delays. We integrate an existing traffic model with flood maps to identify inundated roads, simulate traffic patterns, and quantify commute delays. When identifying inundated roads, we demonstrate potential biases arising from the model integration and propose appropriate refinements, such as incorporating road geometry and elevation data, and identifying small-scale topographical features like road-creek crossings. Our results for the San Francisco Bay Area show commute delays propagate far inland, creating longer commute delays for inland communities with low road network connectivity than for communities near the flood zone. We show that metric reach, a measure of road network connectivity, is a better proxy for quantifying the resilience of a community to flood-related commute delays than flood exposure.

A Qualitative Study of Ecstasy Sellers in the San Francisco Bay Area

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheigla Murphy ◽  
Paloma Sales ◽  
Micheline Duterte ◽  
Camille Jacinto
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Bay Area

Cyborg Jotería Pedagogies: Latinx Drag Queens Leveraging Communication Ecologies in the Age of the Digital and Social Displacement

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-66
Author(s):  
José Ramón Lizárraga ◽  
Arturo Cortez
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Drag Queen ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Online Presence ◽  
Drag Queens

Researchers and practitioners have much to learn from drag queens, specifically Latinx queens, as they leverage everyday queerness and brownness in ways that contribute to pedagogy locally and globally, individually and collectively. Drawing on previous work examining the digital queer gestures of drag queen educators (Lizárraga & Cortez, 2019), this essay explores how non-dominant people that exist and fluctuate in the in-between of boundaries of gender, race, sexuality, the physical, and the virtual provide pedagogical overtures for imagining and organizing for new possible futures that are equitable and just. Further animated by Donna Haraway’s (2006) influential feminist post-humanist work, we interrogate how Latinx drag queens as cyborgs use digital technologies to enhance their craft and engage in powerful pedagogical moves. This essay draws from robust analyses of the digital presence of and interviews with two Latinx drag queens in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as the online presence of a Xicanx doggie drag queen named RuPawl. Our participants actively drew on their liminality to provoke and mobilize communities around socio-political issues. In this regard, we see them engaging in transformative public cyborg jotería pedagogies that are made visible and historicized in the digital and physical world.

scholarly journals Elegy

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-9
Author(s):  
David L. Ulin
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Experience Of Time

Traversing the kaleidoscope of memory of early adulthood in the San Francisco bay area, David Ulin describes the places as he remembers them with picturesque account: Andrew Molera State Park, Fort Mason, Marin Headlands, Old Waldorf, and Sutro Tower, with the particulars, and what happened to his experience of time in those places that summer of 1980. Experienced as a series of fleeting memories, joining together with others who lived there for a time. They left, and so did the author, experiencing the power of temporality or “abandon” both in and from this place.

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