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Books and the City
Reading the City
What’s your favorite book about cities? Urbanists offer their suggestions.
SPUR put out the call to planners, architects, designers, developers, professors, technologists and others with a simple question: What’s your favorite book about cities? We invite you to peruse this list and read to your heart’s content.
SPUR Welcomes Adhi Nagraj as San Francisco Director
SPUR is pleased to announce the appointment of Adhi Nagraj as its new San Francisco Director. Adhi most recently worked for BRIDGE Housing as a director of development. He is also the chair of the Oakland Planning Commission and was appointed by Governor Brown to serve on the Board of the California Housing Partnership Corporation, a statewide affordable housing finance and policy organization.
Urban Field Notes: I Love the Post Office
Give it up for America’s under-appreciated infrastructure workhorse!
An infrastructure enthusiast shares his fasciation with the vast variety of post office architecture around the country.
Member Profile: Doug Farr
Since reading Manual of the Plan of Chicago as an 8th grader, this architect has had his eye on creating a better urban future.
Architect Doug Farr describes himself as “a perpetual volunteer.” He serves on not one but three boards, EcoDistricts, Elevate Energy and Illinois Green, and is former board chair of the Congress for the New Urbanism. We talked to him about Chicago, Detroit, his new book and how to speed up the process of making real change.