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Interactive archive of SPUR's articles, interviews, and policy papers

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4/1/2008 2007 Annual Report Housing, Transportation, RegionalPlanning, EconomicDevelopment Article
3/1/2008 Setting Aside Differences GoodGovernment Report
3/1/2008 New Views of the City Housing, CommunityPlanning, RegionalPlanning Interview
2/1/2008 MUNI on the rise Transportation Article
1/1/2008 Envisioning Warmwater Cove: Piero N. Patri Fellowship in Urban Design at SPUR Summary Report CommunityPlanning Report
1/1/2008 Ballot Analysis February 2008 GoodGovernment Report
11/21/2007 Affordable by Design Housing Report
11/1/2007 Mapping the Northern California Megaregion RegionalPlanning, EconomicDevelopment Article
11/1/2007 The Northern California megaregion RegionalPlanning, EconomicDevelopment Article
10/1/2007 Ballot Analysis November 2007 GoodGovernment Report
9/1/2007 Planning the City's Future SustainableDevelopment Report
8/1/2007 Hard Choices at the Port of San Francisco SustainableDevelopment Report
7/1/2007 A New Transit First Neighborhood Transportation, SustainableDevelopment Report
6/20/2007 New Connections Transportation Report
6/1/2007 High speed rail essential to keep California on track Transportation, RegionalPlanning Article
5/1/2007 Civic Planning in America CommunityPlanning Article
3/1/2007 Framing the future of downtown San Francisco RegionalPlanning, EconomicDevelopment Article
3/1/2007 What is the correct balance between housing and jobs? EconomicDevelopment Article
1/26/2007 SPUR endorses the Public/Private delivery of Wi-Fi in San Francisco GoodGovernment Report
1/1/2007 Form foils function - How our process prevents real planning — and what we can do about it Article
11/7/2006 Integrated Stormwater Management - Adding an ecological component to San Francisco's streets SustainableDevelopment Report
10/9/2006 Ballot Analysis November 2006 GoodGovernment Report
8/1/2006 The tortoise and the hare: Comparing the Chicago and San Francisco economies EconomicDevelopment Article
8/1/2006 The Chicago Central Area Plan Article
2/28/2006 Muni's Billion Dollar Problem Transportation Report
2/1/2006 Form and Reform: Fixing the California Environmental Quality Act SustainableDevelopment Report
11/1/2005 Civic Planning in Portland GoodGovernment Article
11/1/2005 They Planned, It Worked RegionalPlanning Article
11/1/2005 The Character of a City: Reading Public Art in Portland CommunityPlanning, RegionalPlanning, Culture Article
11/1/2005 Ten Transportation Lessons From Portland Transportation, RegionalPlanning Article
10/1/2005 Don’t Blame Me, I Didn't Vote GoodGovernment Article
9/1/2005 Reversing Muni's Downward Spiral Transportation Report
9/1/2005 Estimating the External Costs of Driving in San Francisco Transportation Article
8/1/2005 The Greening of Mission Bay CommunityPlanning, RegionalPlanning Article
8/1/2005 From Railyard to Neighborhood: The Rise of Mission Bay RegionalPlanning Article
8/1/2005 More Than a Plan, Less Than a Place CommunityPlanning, RegionalPlanning Article
7/1/2005 Fixing San Francisco's Contracting Process GoodGovernment Article
5/1/2005 SPUR 2004 Advisory Council Evaluation About Article
4/5/2005 Reforming the Department of Human Resources GoodGovernment Report
4/1/2005 SPUR's 2004 Activities About Article
3/16/2005 SPUR Campaign for the Urban Center brochure About Article
3/1/2005 HOPE VI in San Francisco Housing Article
2/1/2005 Measure 37 Passes RegionalPlanning Article
1/3/2005 "The Big Fix," Capital Planning in City Government GoodGovernment, EconomicDevelopment Report
1/1/2005 Parking and Livability in Downtown San Francisco Transportation, CommunityPlanning Report
11/1/2004 Ballot Analysis November 2004 GoodGovernment Report
9/7/2004 Promoting Homeownership Through Condominium Conversion Housing Report
9/1/2004 Traffic Calming in Three European Cities Transportation Article
8/1/2004 Earthquakes: San Francisco at Risk Article
8/1/2004 Changing the Rules: A streamlined solar-power-permitting process brings city residents closer to energy independence SustainableDevelopment Article
7/21/2004 Multimodal Planning at MTA Transportation, GoodGovernment Report
7/1/2004 Edge, Encounter, Common Ground: Borders and the Public Realm CommunityPlanning Article
7/1/2004 Rincon Hill Area Financial Feasibility and Funding Analysis [724Kb PDF] CommunityPlanning, EconomicDevelopment Report
7/1/2004 Regional Planning Without Regional Government RegionalPlanning Article
7/1/2004 South Coast City: What San Francisco Can Learn from San Diego Housing, CommunityPlanning, RegionalPlanning Article
6/1/2004 City of Children Culture Article
6/1/2004 Urban Retro: The New Style in City Living CommunityPlanning, Culture Article
6/1/2004 Bicycling and the City Transportation Article
5/1/2004 How to Turn a Parking Lot into Apartments, a Library, and a Grocery Store the Hard Way Housing, CommunityPlanning Article
5/1/2004 Why Can't New Buildings Be As Nice As Old Buildings? It's the Ceiling Heights, for One Thing Housing, CommunityPlanning Article
5/1/2004 Housing Above Retail Housing, CommunityPlanning Report
4/1/2004 SPUR's 2003 Activities About Article
3/1/2004 Planning Department Reform Agenda: Planning the City's Future Housing, CommunityPlanning, GoodGovernment Report
2/6/2004 Ballot Analysis March 2004 GoodGovernment Report
2/1/2004 The City's Budget 2003 - 2005 GoodGovernment, EconomicDevelopment Article
2/1/2004 Business Taxes in San Francisco: A Review of How Taxes Affect Business-Location Decisions EconomicDevelopment Article
1/1/2004 Replacing Doyle Drive Transportation Article
1/1/2004 Remaking the Presidio's Main Parade Ground CommunityPlanning, SustainableDevelopment Article
1/1/2004 An Interview with Brian O'Neill Interview
1/1/2004 What is a Parkway? Transportation, CommunityPlanning Article
11/1/2003 A Walk in Stanley Park CommunityPlanning Article
11/1/2003 Ballot Analysis November 2003 GoodGovernment Report
11/1/2003 Vancouver's View Corridors CommunityPlanning Article
11/1/2003 The Vancouver Style Housing, CommunityPlanning Article
11/1/2003 The Importance of Learning from Other Places Culture Article
11/1/2003 Sex, Planning and Rock and Roll (in Vancouver) Culture Article
9/1/2003 Case Study in Regional Planning: Portland's Metro Council RegionalPlanning Article
9/1/2003 Bioregion, Metropolis, and Neighborhood: Toward a Politics of Place SustainableDevelopment, RegionalPlanning Article
9/1/2003 On the Level: Improving Regional Transportation Planning Transportation, RegionalPlanning Article
9/1/2003 Bay Area Regionalism — Can We Get There? RegionalPlanning Article
9/1/2003 ABAG and MTC: Closer to Coordination? RegionalPlanning Article
9/1/2003 Projections 2003: A Review and Critique RegionalPlanning Article
8/1/2003 Deregulation, Re-Regulation and California's Energy Future SustainableDevelopment, EconomicDevelopment Article
8/1/2003 The Ecological Footprint of Energy SustainableDevelopment Article
8/1/2003 Finding a Site for a Power Plant SustainableDevelopment, EconomicDevelopment Article
8/1/2003 Choosing San Francisco's Energy Future SustainableDevelopment Article
7/1/2003 Supervisors as Planners GoodGovernment Article
7/1/2003 Large Retail Commercial Sites in San Francisco Housing Article
7/1/2003 More CEQA Delays? Housing, GoodGovernment Article
7/1/2003 Democracy and Planning GoodGovernment Article
7/1/2003 Reflections on Neighborhood Planning - From a Distance GoodGovernment Article
6/1/2003 Interview: Renzo Piano - A Public Space to Show Science CommunityPlanning, SustainableDevelopment Interview
5/1/2003 Crisis and Opportunity in the City Budget GoodGovernment Article
3/1/2003 The California Futures Network SustainableDevelopment, RegionalPlanning Article
3/1/2003 Community Vision / Regional Action Transportation, RegionalPlanning Article
3/1/2003 The San Francisco Housing Action Coalition Housing Article
2/1/2003 An Open Letter to the Left EconomicDevelopment Article
2/1/2003 An Open Letter to the Business Community EconomicDevelopment Article
2/1/2003 Economic Indicators EconomicDevelopment Article
1/1/2003 A History of Ever-Changing Rincon Hill CommunityPlanning Article
11/1/2002 Only in San Francisco?: The City's Political Culture in Comparative Perspective Culture Article
11/1/2002 Instant Runoffs, Election Timing, and Voter Turnout GoodGovernment Article
10/1/2002 Ballot Analysis November 2002 GoodGovernment Report
8/1/2002 Homelessness in a Progressive City: Recommendations of SPUR’s Homeless Task Force Housing, GoodGovernment Report
7/3/2002 Analysis of the San Francisco Affordable Housing and Home Ownership Opportunity Bond Program Housing Report
3/2/2002 Mid-Market Street Redevelopment District: A Plan For Incremental Change Housing, CommunityPlanning Report
3/1/2002 Ballot Analysis March 2002 GoodGovernment Report
1/2/2002 Muni's Vision for Rapid Transit in San Francisco Transportation Article
1/1/2002 The Next Step in Muni Reform: A Citywide Plan for Transit Expansion Transportation Report
11/1/2001 Update on San Francisco's Response to the Housing Crisis Housing Article
11/1/2001 Ballot Analysis November 2001 GoodGovernment Report
11/1/2001 San Francisco's Utilities in the 21st Century GoodGovernment Article
10/1/2001 Making Taxi Service Work in San Francisco Transportation Report
10/1/2001 City of Safety: Planning in the Age of Terrorism Culture Article
9/1/2001 Learning From the City Article
9/1/2001 Our Housing Crisis: The Developer's Perspective Housing Article
9/1/2001 Ecological Design, Urban Places, and the Culture of Sustainability CommunityPlanning, SustainableDevelopment Article
8/1/2001 Secondary Units: A Painless Way to Increase the Supply of Housing Housing Report
8/1/2001 Planning for Growth: A Proposal to Expand San Francisco's Transit Impact Development Fee Transportation Report
7/1/2001 San Francisco Government Reform is Long Overdue GoodGovernment Article
7/1/2001 San Francisco by Numbers: Planning After the 2000 Census Housing, GoodGovernment, RegionalPlanning, EconomicDevelopment, Culture Article
7/1/2001 The 2000 Census: By the Tract RegionalPlanning, Culture Article
6/1/2001 Unpaving Schoolyards SustainableDevelopment Article
6/1/2001 Sustainable Redevelopment for San Francisco CommunityPlanning, GoodGovernment, SustainableDevelopment Article
6/1/2001 Ecological Parks CommunityPlanning, SustainableDevelopment Article
6/1/2001 Green Buildings: Bringing Environmentally Sensitive Design To San Francisco CommunityPlanning, SustainableDevelopment Article
5/1/2001 Strategic Regional Decision-Making RegionalPlanning Article
5/1/2001 Towards Transit-Oriented Development Housing, Transportation, CommunityPlanning Article
5/1/2001 Where to Put the Bay Area's Next Million? RegionalPlanning Article
5/1/2001 Sprawling Beyond The Edges: The Next Wave RegionalPlanning Article
3/1/2001 Two Decades of Change: The Education of Gerald Adams CommunityPlanning, Culture Article
3/1/2001 What is a City? Culture Article
3/1/2001 Towards a More Perfect Union: Thoughts on Union Square CommunityPlanning Article
3/1/2001 The Social and Physical Fabric of Place CommunityPlanning Article
2/1/2001 Public/Private Partnerships 101 GoodGovernment Article
1/1/2001 Reinventing Government in San Francisco GoodGovernment Article
1/1/2001 District Elections and The New Progressive Majority GoodGovernment, Culture Article
1/1/2001 The Special Assistant Problem GoodGovernment Article
1/1/2001 Interview: City Controller Ed Harrington GoodGovernment Interview
1/1/2001 Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Solving the City's Deferred Maintenance Problem GoodGovernment, EconomicDevelopment Article
11/1/2000 Ballot Analysis November 2000 GoodGovernment Report
11/1/2000 Health Check: San Francisco Arts at the Beginning of a New Century CommunityPlanning, EconomicDevelopment Article
9/1/2000 Interview: School Superintendent Arlene Ackerman GoodGovernment Interview
9/1/2000 The Next Stage of Ecological Urban Design: A Response SustainableDevelopment Article
9/1/2000 Rationalize the Permit Approval Process Housing Report
7/1/2000 SOMA Transportation and the Land Use Connection Transportation Report
7/1/2000 Planning for Growth: Three Proposals for the Temporary Modification of Proposition M CommunityPlanning, EconomicDevelopment Article
7/1/2000 Transit Village Alternative to the Home Depot Proposal Housing, Transportation, CommunityPlanning Article
7/1/2000 San Francisco Economy: Implications for Public Policy EconomicDevelopment Report
6/1/2000 What's Next for Muni Transportation Report
6/1/2000 Changing Roles of Urban Parks: From Pleasure Garden to Open Space CommunityPlanning, SustainableDevelopment Article
6/1/2000 Better Parks in San Francisco CommunityPlanning, GoodGovernment, SustainableDevelopment Report
5/1/2000 Planning for Neighborhood Change Housing, CommunityPlanning Article
5/1/2000 Redesigning Harvey Milk Plaza CommunityPlanning Article
3/1/2000 Interview: Muni General Manager Michael Burns Transportation Interview
3/1/2000 City CarShare Transportation, EconomicDevelopment Article
3/1/2000 Ballot Analysis March 2000 GoodGovernment Report
3/1/2000 Sustaining a Livable City in the New Millennium Housing, Transportation, SustainableDevelopment, RegionalPlanning Article
3/1/2000 Dilemma for Sustainable Regionalists SustainableDevelopment, RegionalPlanning Article
2/1/2000 Reflections on San Francisco Politics in the Year 2000 GoodGovernment, Culture Article
2/1/2000 District Elections in San Francisco GoodGovernment, Culture Article
1/1/2000 Chinatown(s): A Conversation with David Lee, Exec. Director of the Chinese American Voter Education Committee GoodGovernment, Culture Interview
1/1/2000 Victory on Muni Reform Transportation Article
1/1/2000 Navigating the Last Tenth of a Mile: Property Rights and Service Choice in the New Telecom Market EconomicDevelopment Article
11/1/1999 The Decline of the Port EconomicDevelopment Article
11/1/1999 California High Speed Rail Project Transportation, RegionalPlanning Report
11/1/1999 Public Trust Doctrine, San Francisco Waterfront CommunityPlanning Article
10/1/1999 What Would a Responsible Living Wage Measure Look Like? EconomicDevelopment Article
10/1/1999 Evaluating the New City Charter GoodGovernment Article
10/1/1999 Renewal to Research: A Brief History of the Changing About Article
9/1/1999 Smart Region, Smart Growth RegionalPlanning Article
9/1/1999 Interview: Joe Bodovitz RegionalPlanning, About Interview
9/1/1999 Forecasting the Future