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Planning Chiefs: Urban Planning Still Hindered by Politics, Past Mistakes
By Michael Rhodes |
Over 200 people showed up to hear planning directors speak. Photo: Michael Rhodes City planners have been on the hook for some of the last century’s greatest metropolitan mishaps: urban freeways and "slum clearance," arbitrary minimum parking requirements, and land use laws that have left little room for the mingling of uses. Understandably, today’s planners […]
Jan Gehl Says San Francisco Must be Sweet to Pedestrians and Cyclists
By Matthew Roth |
It’s a good day in a city’s urbanist evolution when Jan Gehl comes to town, and now San Francisco can add itself to the growing list of cities around the world that have embraced his people-first approach to urban design and planning. Hoping to keep pace with the progress in New York City over the […]
The Case for Removing the 280 Freeway
By Aaron Bialick |
Talk of San Francisco’s next freeway removal has heated up since a proposal from the Mayor’s Office to take down the northern spur of I-280 went public. The highway teardown would open up land for housing, connect neighborhoods, and help bring high-speed rail and Caltrain downtown. “The good news is this would be the third […]
SPUR Forum: Crossing Borders: Oakland and San Francisco
By Aaron Bialick |
From SPUR: Image courtesy of Flickr user Tim Gallagher Though physically separated by the San Francisco Bay, Oakland and San Francisco are inextricably linked through their economies, housing markets and the hundreds of thousands of people who cross the bay each day. Come hear both cities’ planning directors in a conversation on some of the […]
5th Annual Housing Summit
By Aaron Bialick |
From San Francisco Housing Action Coalition During the last economic cycle, San Francisco entitled roughly 40,000 new units of housing. However, it is not clear in the current economic climate how many of them will actually be built. What could we, as San Franciscans, do to help deliver this badly needed housing? The SFHAC will host a public […]
How Will SF Fund the Sustainable Transport System a Growing City Needs?
By Aaron Bialick |
Within a few decades, San Francisco’s streets will be even more clogged with cars, more dangerous for walking and biking, and Muni will burst at the seams as more people try to get around. That’s the future city officials warned about at a hearing yesterday, painting a grim picture of traffic-choked streets if nothing is […]