Thoreau
Walden became our title for the project for an obvious reason, it is the name of the street where the project is located. But our real reason for latching on to the name was the history and mood evoked by Thoreau’s cabin at Walden Pond. At the time, the association was one of a remote natural place, which seemed to fit the countryside setting of our project site. Knowing more today about proximity of Thoreau’s cabin to civilization, the name is perhaps even more fitting since the socio-economic ripples of the Bay Area are lapping over this once remote agricultural setting.
