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Berkeley (/ˈbɜːrkli/ BURK-lee) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and Emeryville to the south and the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington to the north. Its eastern border with Contra Costa County generally follows the ridge of the Berkeley Hills. The 2020 census recorded a population of 124,321.

Berkeley

United States

California

Alameda

April 4, 1878[1]

March 5, 1895[2]

George Berkeley

Council-Manager[2]

Jesse Arreguín[3]

  1. Rashi Kesarwani
  2. Terry Taplin
  3. Ben Bartlett
  4. (vacant)
  5. Sophie Hahn
  6. Susan Wengraf
  7. (vacant)
  8. Mark Humbert

Nancy Skinner (D)[4]

Buffy Wicks (D)[5]

Barbara Lee (D)[6]

17.66 sq mi (45.73 km2)

10.43 sq mi (27.02 km2)

7.22 sq mi (18.71 km2)  40.83%

171 ft (52 m)

124,321

  • 4th in Alameda County
  • 51st in California
  • 246th in the United States

11,917.27/sq mi (4,601.36/km2)

Berkeleyan

UTC−8 (Pacific)

UTC−7 (PDT)

94701–94710, 94712, 94720

510, 341

06-06000

1658037, 2409837

berkeleyca.gov

Berkeley is home to the oldest campus in the University of California, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is managed and operated by the university. It also has the Graduate Theological Union, one of the largest religious studies institutions in the world. Berkeley is considered one of the most socially progressive cities in the United States.

passes through several neighborhoods from north to south, including the downtown business district in Berkeley. It is named for Francis K. Shattuck, one of Berkeley's earliest influential citizens and the most prominent civic leader in the early history of Berkeley. He played an important role in the creation and government of Alameda County as well.

Shattuck Avenue

University Avenue runs from Berkeley's bayshore and marina in the west to the University of California campus in the east.

College Avenue, running from the University of California from the north to Broadway in in the south close to the foothill, is a relatively quiet street compared with other major streets in Berkeley. It supports many restaurants and small shops.

Oakland

Ashby Avenue (), which also runs from Berkeley's bayshore to the hills, connects with the Warren Freeway and Highway 24 leading to the Caldecott Tunnel, named for a former Berkeley mayor.

Highway 13

(Highway 123) runs north–south through West Berkeley, connecting Oakland and Emeryville to the south and Albany to the north.

San Pablo Avenue

which runs north–south from the university campus to Oakland, historically the site of much of the hippie culture of Berkeley.

Telegraph Avenue

Martin Luther King Jr. Way, which until 1984 was called Grove Street, runs north–south a few blocks west of Shattuck Avenue, connecting Oakland and the freeways to the south with the neighborhoods and other communities to the north.

Sacramento Street is one of the four streets with a median in Berkeley, running from Hopkins Street from the north to Alcatraz Ave in the south.

a major street for shopping and restaurants, runs east–west near the north end of Berkeley, continuing into Albany. Since 1974, Solano Avenue has hosted the annual Solano Avenue Stroll and Parade[105] of the twin-cities of Albany and Berkeley, the East Bay's largest street festival.

Solano Avenue

(the city's only public high school) and the Berkeley Community Theatre, which is on its campus.[107]

Berkeley High School

Berkeley Women's City Club, now – Julia Morgan (1929–30)

Berkeley City Club

– Bernard Maybeck (1910)

First Church of Christ, Scientist

– Julia Morgan (1910), now the Berkeley Playhouse

St. John's Presbyterian Church

– architect not recorded, built for Frederick H. Dakin (1905)

Studio Building

(Sigma Phi Society of the Thorsen House) – Charles Sumner Greene & Henry Mather Greene (1908–10)

Thorsen House

Jewish Music Festival – March

[111]

Cal Day, Open House[112] – April

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley Arts Festival – April and May

[113]

Himalayan Fair – May

[114]

The Berkeley Juneteenth Festival – Adeline/Alcatraz Corridor – June

Berkeley Kite Festival – July

[115]

Berkeley Juggling and Unicycling Festival – July or August

[116]

The [117] – Solano Avenue, Berkeley and Albany – September

Solano Avenue Stroll

The Bay Area Book Festival – Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park and throughout Downtown Berkeley – May

[118]

List of cities and towns in the San Francisco Bay Area

Exactly Opposite the Golden Gate, edited by Phil McCardle. Berkeley Historical Society, 1983

Berkeley: The Life and Spirit of a Remarkable Town, Ellen Weis, photographs by Kiran Singh. Berkeley: Frog, Ltd. 2004  1-58394-093-6

ISBN

Berkeley Inside/Out, Don Pitcher, history sections by . Berkeley: Heyday Books. 1989 ISBN 0-930588-33-9

Malcolm Margolin

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers.

Official website

. Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.

"Berkeley, a city of Alameda county, California, U.S.A." 

Google news archive. —PDFs of 8,057 issues, dating from 1911 to 1946.

Berkeley Daily Gazette,

The Bancroft Library

Finding Aid to City of Berkeley Records

U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Berkeley, California