[POSTPONED] Urban & Wild: A Conversation on California’s Landscape

Sorry, this event has been postponed due to author illness. More details to come shortly on when it will be rescheduled.

Prepare for an evening that will transcend the divide between built and wild. Two of California’s most distinctive voices—John King and Obi Kaufmann—will join us for a conversation exploring the layered meanings of place, particularly through the lens of the Bay Area.

John King, longtime San Francisco Chronicle urban design critic and author of Portal: San Francisco’s Ferry Building + the Reinvention of American Cities, brings a sharp and deeply informed perspective on how cities evolve, and how public spaces like the Ferry Building reflect broader currents of civic identity, design, and resilience.

Obi Kaufmann, award-winning author and ecological philosopher, is best known for The California Field Atlas, a genre-defying work now in its seventh printing that reimagines the Golden State as a living, breathing super-organism. His subsequent titles, including…