Link library

  • American Institute of Architects (AIA) of San Francisco
    The official trade association of architects in San Francisco, the AIA provides a number of resources to local architects and planners.
  • City CarShare
    All of the convenience of a car without the hassle or expense of owning one—City CarShare provides vehicles to people in the Bay Area on an hourly basis.
  • The Green Affordable Housing Coalition
    A coalition of San Francisco Bay Area public-sector and private-sector professionals committed to incorporating green building practices into the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of affordable housing through education and outreach. The website provides Green Building resources, including fact sheets, case studies, web links, and an events calendar.
  • Neighborhood Parks Council
    A coalition of community-based parks groups working to improve the quality of parks in San Francisco through outreach, volunteer efforts, and special events.
  • Presidio Trust
    Chartered by Congress to run this former military base, now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
  • Rescue Muni
    San Francisco’s transit-riders advocacy group.
  • San Francisco Architectural Heritage
    Works to preserve architecturally and historically significant structures and promote public appreciation for historic preservation.
  • San Francisco Beautiful
    Works to improve the vitality of San Francisco’s streets, parks, and neighborhoods through civic initiatives, grants, and award programs.
  • San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
    The bike riders’ advocacy group: promoting the bicycle for everyday transportation.
  • San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
    Offers resources to local businesses and encourages policies that would improve the city’s business climate.
  • San Francisco CITYSCAPE
    This "online journal of Bay Area Urban Design" includes interviews and essays that are mostly centered on Bay Area transportation.
  • San Francisco CitySpace
    A cultural organization that examines the city across a range of disciplines such as architecture, film, and mapping.
  • San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance
    The SFGSA promotes community-driven processes that create and maintain healthy, environmentally sustainable learning environments in San Francisco's schools.
  • San Francisco Housing Action Coalition
    Advocates for more housing opportunities in San Francisco at all income levels.
  • San Francisco Prize
    Sponsors design competitions for important public projects in the city.
  • San Francisco Urban Institute
    A nonprofit project of the San Francisco State University that brings together resources from the University and community to address some of the pressing issues that face the city.
  • Livable City
    An advocacy group that promotes walking, bicycling, and transit as the cornerstones of urban transportation.
  • Urban Solutions
    Economic development non-profit that helps small businesses get started in San Francisco and works to re-vitalize some of the city's most challenged commercial corridors.
  • Walk San Francisco
    San Francisco’s pedestrian-advocacy group.
  • Association of Bay Area Government (ABAG)
    The Bay Area’s council of governments. A great source for demographic information, reports, and analysis about the region.
  • Bay Area Council
    The advocacy group for 275+ of the Bay Area’s largest businesses.
  • College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley
    Home to UC Berkeley’s programs of Architecture, City and Regional Planning, and Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning.
  • Great Communities Collaborative
    The first-ever coordinated, regionwide attempt to do organizing to support transit oriented developments around specific stations in the Bay Area.
  • Greenbelt Alliance
    Founded the year before SPUR as a sister organization, Greenbelt works to stop suburban sprawl and direct growth into compact walkable communities.
  • Joint Venture Silicon Valley
    A South Bay advocacy group that brings together business, labor, government, and the community to build a sustainable and innovative economy.
  • Metropolitan Transportation Commission
    The transportation planning, financing, and coordinating agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area.
  • Saving the Bay
    A movie about the history of the movement to save San Francisco Bay-- great footage, great story.
  • Silicon Valley Leadership Group
    Business advocacy group for the South Bay working on economic development, affordable housing, transportation, and sustainability issues.
  • Still Here, San Francisco Estuary Institute
    A team of artists and scientists investigating the physical and ecological transformation of the San Francisco Bay Area.
  • TRANSFORM
    The Bay Area’s main alternative transportation advocacy group, TALC is a partnership of over 90 groups who advocate “smart growth” through linking transportation with land use.
  • Urban Ecology
    Promotes sustainability through urbanism, advocating density, diversity, and transportation choices. Especially active in the East Bay.
  • California Budget Project
    A Sacramento group that publishes independent analysis of state budget and policy issues.
  • California Center for Land Recycling
    Promotes the rehabilitation and reuse of contaminated or underused sites within existing urban areas so that they may be used for infill development.
  • California Center for Regional Leadership
    A network of regional organizations working toward environmental justice, smart growth, and a healthy economy.
  • California Climate Change Center
    The mission of this UC Berkeley Center is to advance the state-of-the-science regarding the potential regional impacts of climate change on California and its economy, ecology and society.
  • California Connected
    A weekly newsmagazine program that brings in experts to discuss issues facing California today.
  • California High Speed Rail Authority
    The body charged with planning a network of high-speed-train service in California.
  • California Historical Society
    Preserves, presents, and educates on materials relevant to California’s history.
  • California Research Bureau
    Provides nonpartisan research services to the Governor and his staff, to both houses of the legislature, and to other state elected officials.
  • Capitol Weekly
    The newspaper of California government and politics.