SPUR Lunchtime Forum: What’s next for in-fill housing? Current and anticipated trends

By Abigail Shull
May 17, 2010

"The effects of the recession on the tumultuous real estate market has left us with some unknowns: what will happen when San Francisco’s for-sale housing supply dries up? What creative approaches and tried- and-true strategies keep projects selling and renting? And what are the bright spots for 2010-2011? Join Paul Zeger, CEO, Pacific Marketing Associates, as he offers his perspective on current and anticipated trends. Co-sponsored by the Urban Land Institute."

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By Angie Schmitt | Sep 5, 2014

There’s a new study out examining the future of Columbus, Ohio, and the results are a little scary. This growing city in central Ohio has an Atlanta-like geography — no physical barriers on any side. And if current development patterns continue, Chris Bentley at the Architect’s Newspaper reports, the region’s physical footprint is expected to more than […]

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How Salt Lake City Became a Leader in Transit-Oriented Development

By Carolyn Szczepanski | Oct 24, 2011

In 2004, Salt Lake City faced a challenging question: How do you fit 1.4 million additional residents into a region hemmed in by mountains on the east and water on the west? In the course of solving that problem, the city ended up answering several other head-scratchers, like: How do you get buy-in for smart-growth […]

SPUR Lunchtime Forum: ZNE vs VMT

By Robert Prinz | Oct 14, 2012

From SPUR: Image Credit: Flickr user hadsie Someday soon California’s building energy codes may require all buildings to achieve zero net energy (ZNE), meaning they make as much energy as they use and have no carbon emissions. But this anticipated push does not recognize the difficulty — if not impossibility — of achieving ZNE in very […]

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The New Dynamics That Are Eroding the Market for Sprawl

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 26, 2011

The argument that sprawl is the natural product of market forces and consumer preferences is ringing a little more hollow with each passing day. While charlatans like Wendell Cox use overly simplistic analyses of Census results to argue that the urban renaissance is a figment of our collective imagination, the underlying trends tell a different […]

Designing Daggett Park

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 28, 2011

From SF Planning: Please join us Wednesday, September 7th to help finalize the design for a new public park on the Daggett Street right-of-way. The proposed design is based on the initial design developed by the community and City staff as part of theShowplace Square Open Space Plan. Once the design is finalized and approved […]

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A Changing Marin County Is Still Building Yesterday’s Housing

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 5, 2012

American demographics are changing. More people are living in single-person households, especially the growing population of senior citizens. Just one in five households today are families with school-aged children. But the nation’s housing supply is still oriented toward the type of living arrangements that prevailed in the 1950s, when nearly half of all households were of the […]