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Berkeley is renowned
for its distinguished residential architecture
and well-established neighborhoods. It has
long been praised as an "ideal city of homes."
With its abundance of diverse cultures and
civic amenities, this vibrant university town
across the bay from San Francisco offers a
rich and extraordinary quality of life.
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Thousand Oaks
Berkeley Hills
Northbrae
Westbrae
Gourmet Ghetto
Northside
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The neighborhoods
comprising North
Berkeley are primarily
residential subdivisions,
punctuated by
small and large
retail districts.
Ascending tree-lined
streets lend a
distinct charm. |
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Downtown
Ohlone Park
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Central Berkeley
offers a unique
mix of residences
and businesses.
Students, families,
singles, and seniors
alike inhabit
this former open
farmland, which
boomed with the
influx of refugees
from the San Francisco
earthquake and
fire of 1906.
Victorian and
Colonial-Revival
homes line the
streets along
with Craftsman
bungalows, modern
apartment houses,
and historically
significant commercial
buildings. |
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Ocean View
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Situated between
San Pablo Avenue
and the bay,
West Berkeley
consists of
rehabilitated
residential
and industrial
buildings, often
side by side.
Intriguing small
businesses,
technology firms
and factories
coexist with
Victorian homes,
live-work lofts
and apartment
buildings.
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Southside
LeConte
Elmwood
Claremont
San Pablo Park
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Dating back
as far as the
1860s, tracts
south of the U.C.
Berkeley Campus
continue to accommodate
largely the same
types of residents
for whom they
were first created:
students, local
workers, and commuters
to San Franci
sco. Commercial,university,
and civic structures
stand among residences
in a picturesque
marriage of "town
and gown."
Hidden among the
streets of South
Berkeley is San
Pablo Park, a
small working-class
neighborhood that
is enjoying a
renaissance.....
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Temescal
Lower Rockridge
Upper Rockridge
Piedmont Ave
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Bordering South
Berkeley between
Martin Luther
King Way and Telegraph
Avenue is North
Oakland. This
up-and-coming
area is rich with
charming older
houses. Close
to Children's
Hospital, Harvey
Clar's Auction
Gallery, Whole
Foods Market and
La Pena Cultural
Center, North
Oakland is remarkably
diverse. Between
Telegraph and
Shattuck avenues
and south of Alcatraz
Avenue is Idora
Park, the site
of a turn-of-the-century
pleasure park
that was replaced
in the 1920s and
1930s by scores
of small stucco
homes resembling
miniature castles. |
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Emeryville
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Think industrial
buildings, live-work
lofts, and the
world headquarters
of Pixar Animation
Studios. Emeryville
is an eclectic
and energetic
city with easy
freeway access. |
