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Unit 4 consists of Stern Hall and Foothill Student Housing at 2700 Hearst Avenue. Bowles Hall (completed in 1929) [2] was also part of Unit 4 until May 2015. The unit is located on the eastern edge of campus along Gayley Road. Its main dining facility is located in Foothill. Stern Hall, built in 1942, is the only all-female residence hall on ...
Ultimately, Units 1, 2, and 3 were completed in the 1960s, providing housing for up to 3,100 undergraduates; the architect was John Carl Warnecke with landscape design by Lawrence Halprin. Each unit as completed had four nine-story concrete towers surrounding a two-story building with a dining hall and common facilities.
[3] This 1978 view over the neighborhood shows Sproul Plaza and the Unit 3 dormitory complex. By the 1920s the area was a dense urban neighborhood extending as far north as Strawberry Creek. In the 1930s the university campus began expanding southward into the neighborhood, beginning with Edwards Stadium and Harmon Gym. In the 1950s, '60s, and ...
Unlike the Housing Act of 1937, which required the demolition of one unit of housing for each new unit built, the Lanham act encouraged building on already vacant land. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 1943, the Federal War Housing Agency announced plans to create and operate a large racially integrated project in Berkeley and Albany to house civilian war ...
The Berkeley Student Cooperative (BSC) (formerly known as University Students' Cooperative Association or the USCA) is a student housing cooperative serving primarily UC Berkeley students, but open to any full-time post-secondary student. The BSC houses and/or feeds over 1,300 students in 17 houses and three apartment buildings.
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) [10] [11] is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States.. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley, it is the state's first land-grant university and is the founding campus of the University of California sys
U.S. businesses need to use their influence—or at least some of the $3.24 billion they collectively spent on lobbying last year—to encourage policies that will help us transition to a low-carbon economy.
The Richmond Field Station (RFS) is a satellite campus of the University of California, Berkeley located in Richmond, California.The name was changed to the Richmond Bay Campus (RBC) in 2012 and then Berkeley Global Campus at Richmond Bay (BGC) in October 2014, reflecting plans to expand the site to address global issues, first as a second campus for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL ...