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Land: the only real frontier . . . a walking tour

Date:
Friday, June 12, 2026
Time:
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Event Type:
Teach-In
Organizer/Author:
David Giesen
Email:
Phone:
415-948-4265
Location Details:
meet in the lobby of the American Youth Hostel
312 Mason Street
San Francisco

In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner proposed the Frontier Thesis, namely that with the end of substantial homesteading opportunities due to land enclosures, the American Dream mythos was at an end and a new era of reactionary domination by the land-owning class was immanent. At hand were the socio-economic ideas of San Francisco journalist Henry George, ready to reconstruct the American Dream, albeit in a robustly democratic communitarian way.

Come along on a FREE walking tour that explores San Francisco's Gold Rush century, the 19th, tracing the evolution of the city from an Ohlone fishing village to an apocalyptic, metaphorically charred Jericho. The walk's hypothesis is that with a robust treatment of land values as community revenue, involuntary homelessness can be eliminated.

For more information: http://www.TheCommonsSF.org
Added to the calendar on Fri, Jun 12, 2026 8:36AM
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