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  • 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