Issue 481: 2008-2009 ANNUAL REPORT
April 2009

Letter: SPUR turns 50
News: SPUR tackles SB 375, earns seat on Mayor’s Green Building Council, Doyle Drive funding gab closed
Featured Article: SPUR program updates
Urban Drift: Revisiting the New Deal, Prince Charles in Mumbai, Ant traffic jams
Urban Field Notes: 6 sample swatches from SF’s urban quilt (Plug1)
Member Profile: Matthew Zapruder

Issue 480: MAKING DOWNTOWN WORK
March 2009

Letter: Bringing work back to the city
News: SPUR leads on the economy, Trainbox for Transbay, City open space plan SPUR Report: The Future of Downtown
Urban Drift: Seeing red over green, Phoenix falling, Unsafe in the suburbs
Urban Field Notes: 7 wonders of Pier 70’s shipyard (Ruth Keffer)
Member Profile: Brian Stokle

Issue 479: THE RESILIENT CITY, PART 1
February 2009

Letter: The ground beneath our feet
News: Bicycle plan inches toward approval, SPUR appointed to SFPUC advisory board, responds to financial crisis
SPUR Report: The Resilient City, Part 1 – Before the Disaster
Urban Drift: Ecotopia revisited, Downsizing of Detroit, Modernism remixed
Urban Field Notes: 2,800 buildings, 1 problem (David Bonowitz)
Member Profile: Charissa Frank

Issue 478: Secrets of San Francisco
January 2009

Letter: 68 reasons to love San Francisco
News: Doyle Drive approved, Regional water supply program, Muni TEP, City budget crisis, Easter Neighborhoods approved, Yerba Buena CBD
SPUR Report: Privately-owned public open spaces
Urban Drift: Guerilla Bureaucrat in NYC, Seattle rapid transit, Is the mall dead?
Urban Field Notes: 7 Good Things about Multifamily Housing (Jake Wegmann)
Member Profile: Sandy Mori

Issue 477: Regional Rail
Nov/Dec 2008

Letter: Getting the Bay Area up to speed
News: ClimatePlan coalition, SPUR hosts transportation officials, Housing element underway, Balboa Better Neighborhoods Plan, Transbay planning
SPUR Report: A midlife crisis for regional rail
Urban Drift: Green China, A more refined fuel tax, The city that transit forgot
Urban Field Notes: 7 Observations of an Aerial Pedestrian
Member Profile: Jonathan Kelly

Issue 476: Voter Guide
October 2008

Letter: The tyranny of choice
News: Doyle Drive still short on funds, City Hall fellows, Railvolution, Smart Rail
SPUR Report: Ballot Analysis
Urban Drift: Bikesharing in the beltway, Four-dollar gas tax, Frustrated Seattleites buy their own speed bumps
Member Profile: Eva Liebermann

Issue 475: Growing Green
September 2008

Letter: Greening the economy
News: Eastern Neighborhoods passes, Western SoMA plan fails
Featured Articles: Growing Green (Egon Terplan and ICF International), More work, less waste (Lisa Bell and Egon Terplan)
Urban Drift: Paved with good intentions, Detriot rail city, Ghostly skyscraper
Urban Field Notes: 1 tree(s), 2 wheels and 1,000 clones
Member Profile: Jason Henderson

Issue 474: Learning From Toronto
August 2008

Letter: Toronto’s good bones
News: Air Board curbs climate change, Doyle Drive
Featured Articles: When SPUR came to town (Shawn Micallef), Dual identity (Ted Egan), Toronto’s orphan spaces (Michael Alexander), Waterfront Toronto (Byron Rhett), Can a city be a poem? (Jim Chappell)
Urban Field Notes: 8 views of public/private interfaces (Jane Martin)
Member Profile: Linda Sobuta