Urbanist
Issue 513 • May 2012
Harvesting the City
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Expanding the use of public land for urban agriculture in San Francisco -
San Francisco's brilliant branch libraries are a bright spot in the rapidly changing realm of books
Issue 512 • April 2012
Taking the Long View: A Better Future for Ocean Beach
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Dramatic erosion, rising seas and jurisdictional headaches have taken their toll; SPUR's comprehensive new plan offers hope for a better future -
How a desire to stay warm can shape our cities, for better or worse
Issue 511 • March 2012
Navigating a Better Future for Transit
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Improving transit by changing financing, fares, speeds, metrics, territory and maps. -
One mapmaker's vision for a single integrated Bay Area transit map. Plus, what a comprehensive regional transit system might look like.
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Sometimes, architecture really is for the birds.
Issue 510 • February 2012
Safe Enough to Stay?
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What it will take for residents to live safely in their homes after an earthquake. -
What role will the bicycle play in creating a more sustainable future for China? A landscape designer bikes from Beijing to Shanghai to find out.
Issue 509 • January 2012
The Urban Future of Work
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How denser, more urban workplaces will strengthen the Bay Area’s economic competitiveness. -
Innovative high-growth companies look to urban-style experiences to energize their workforce
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An inside view of the opportunities for change that led us to open an office in Northern California’s largest city, San Jose.
Issue 508 • December 2011
The Year in Urbanism
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San Francisco adopted two major plans this year. Will we see more of these in the future? -
How a temporary project turned a series of vacant lots into a destination for food, art and culture.
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New legislation makes it legal to grow and sell produce in San Francisco and Oakland
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How ranked-choice voting affected San Francisco's municipal elections in 2011.
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Has San Francisco finally gotten its student-assignment system right?
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Issue 507 • October 2011
SPUR's 2011 Ballot Analysis
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Analysis and recommendations for the November 2011 ballot -
Issue 506 • September 2011
Solving San Francisco’s Parks Funding Crisis
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Funding public parks in a challenging financial climate -
Issue 505 • August 2011
What Can China Teach Us About Growth?
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SPUR's city trip to Shanghai offered some tough but important lessons for American planners. -
What can the Bay Area learn from China's regional approach to economic planning?
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Can Shanghai’s high-tech subways and high-speed trains trump its growing love affair with the car?
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Is Shanghai the city of the 21st century?
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Issue 504 • July 2011
Can Market Street Be Great Again?
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They thrived together, then declined together. Now these key neighborhoods are primed for a joint revival. -
Strategies for a vital economy in San Francisco's central district
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Cities across the country are using arts districts as a redevelopment tool. Here’s why the best ones work.
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Issue 503 • May 2011
Is the Bay Area Ready for Climate Change?
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Adaptation strategies for the San Francisco Bay Area -
Issue 502 • April 2011
Planning for a Changing Coastline
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Thanks to sea-level rise, a beloved public place already busy with uses becomes even more complex -
Issue 501 • March 2011
Good Government in a Time of Austerity
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How can San Francisco deliver core city services in an era of finite resources?
Issue 499 • January 2011
2010: The Year in Urbanism
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What happened and what it means for the Bay Area
Issue 498 • November 2010
High-Speed Rail and California's Future
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How smart land-use planning can reshape California's growth -
Issue 497 • October 2010
SPUR's 2010 Ballot Analysis
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Analysis and recommendations for the November 2010 ballot
Issue 496 • September 2010
Do-it-yourself city
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Testing the grounds for social change
Issue 495 • August 2010
Learning from San Jose
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Comparing two Bay Area cities by the numbers -
Can smart land use boost ridership?
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Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley
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San Jose planners have a choice: let the city grow out, or up
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San Jose's plan to capture more jobs
Issue 494 • July 2010
After the disaster
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Rebuilding our transportation infrastructure
Issue 493 • June 2010
Are cities overplanned?
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Why planning needs design once again
Issue 492 • May 2010
A balancing act
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Controller Ben Rosenfield talks about economic booms, busts and their impact on the city budget -
Analysis and recommendations for the June 2010 ballot
Issue 491 • April 2010
2009-2010 Annual Report
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Our vision for a San Francisco and a Bay Area at its best, and the steps we should take to get there
Issue 490 • March 2010
Water
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A look at San Francisco's urban water plan
Issue 489 • February 2010
Learning from S.F.
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On the bright side: What's working at the SFMTA -
A new paradigm for citywide health care
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An emphasis on placemaking and focused growth
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A look at how our region developed over time
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Taking action by taking space
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Rebuilding after Loma Prieta
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How we support thriving neighborhood retail (and where we could do better)
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A look at San Francisco's model recycling policies
Issue 488 • January 2010
Learning from D.C.
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Three centuries of city planning in Washington, D.C. -
What can we learn from mass transit in D.C. suburbs?
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Lessons from DC's regional rail system
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The revitalization of downtown, greater downtown and Center City
Issue 487 • November 2009
Sea level rise
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How will we adapt to rising tides? -
SPUR weighs the advantages and disadvantages of seven strategies to manage sea level rise.
Issue 486 • October 2009
2009 voter guide
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The City's new budget director talks about his department's role in shaping good policy -
Analysis and recommendations for the November 2009 ballot
Issue 485 • September 2009
Job sprawl and the new suburbia
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A look at opportunities for megaregional planning across the U.S. -
Opportunities for megaregional open space
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How can we slow the decentralization of work in Northern California?
Issue 484 • August 2009
Housing in the downturn
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Rebounding from a cyclical recession -
A greener path ahead
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Will investors ever return?
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Components of housing price and development costs in San Francisco
Issue 483 • June 2009
SPUR Urban Center grand opening issue
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How the past became the future -
What, exactly, makes a "great city"?
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Telesis and the Modernist agenda
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Armed with knowledge of the past, how do we move forward with our own urban agenda?
Issue 482 • May 2009
42 options to reduce global warming
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San Francisco can fight global warming through smart changes to local policy. What can we do to lead the way? -
Analysis and recommendations for the May 2009 ballot
Issue 480 • March 2009
Making downtown work
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Bringing work back to the city
Issue 479 • February 2009
When is a building safe enough?
Issue 478 • January 2009
Secrets of San Francisco
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Where to find our city's "POPOS" — privately owned public open spaces
