This is fourth street in Berkeley. This streets are lined with restaurants, shops, and art galleries. Each business on this street collectively share common views, ideals, and values that create a true sense of harmony within this environment. Visitors that come here as a predetermined destination may also share these common views, ideals, and values. This also contributes to the general sense of harmony in order within this environment.
Christopher Alexander describes new forms of order designed through new active mechanisms of thoughts, values, and observations. With this, our environment can transform and illuminate new views of value, and in turn creating a new shared harmony within our environment. The Berkeley end of Telegraph Avenue, along with Sproul Plaza, has been the site of numerous protests and riots beginning in the 1960s.Over the next couple of decades the Berkeley end of Telegraph became home to increasing numbers of homeless people and panhandlers, and by the 1990s had become a destination point for runaways from around the United States. The numbers of panhandlers have decreased since a series of police sweeps in the late 1990s, however; university students remain the largest daily population on Telegraph, which still serves as the anchor of food, culture and student life on the south side of campus. The free speech movement, political activism, and the counter culture movements experienced in the sixties helped transform telegraph ave. into the new value that we experience today. If you walk down telegraph ave.,you can not deny the shared values and ideals of the permanent crowd and in turn creating a truth in harmony.
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