community planning

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

The Future of Chinatown’s Stockton Street

By Sam LaTronica
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All photos by Noah Christman

How can a rich historical space welcome visitors and new community members while ensuring that it continues to work for current residents?

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Life After Redevelopment

by Gabriel Metcalf, Executive Director
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Mission Bay, a redevelopment success story. Image courtesy flickr user J Marx

Redevelopment as we’ve known it really is dead in California.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Big Plans to Fix Big Problems at Ocean Beach

by Ben Grant, Public Realm and Urban Design Program Manager
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Image courtesy ShawnaScottPhoto

In late October, SPUR shared with the public a set of draft recommendations for the Ocean Beach Master Plan, a long-range vision for managing coastal erosion, infrastructure, access and ecology on

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

To Fix Central Market, Start With a Strategy

By Sarah Karlinsky, Deputy Director
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Question: What’s the best way to revitalize Central Market?

Answer: There isn’t one way, but many — and they all need to be coordinated with one another.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

A Vision for New Greenspace in Southeastern SF

by Gretchen Hilyard
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a 3-D visualization of the 101/280 Interchange, one of the project sites for "Unaccepted Streets." All images courtesy Sarah Moos

What are unaccepted streets and paper streets, and how can they help make San Francisco a greener place?

Thursday, September 1, 2011

How Can We Reclaim Market Street?

Gretchen Hilyard
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Parade of striking telephone workers marching down Market Street, 1947. Image courtesy of San Francisco History Room, San Francisco Public Library.

San Francisco’s Market Street has a long and fascinating history: from its ambitious beginnings as an over-scaled boulevard, laid out by Jasper O’Farrell in 1847, to its heyday as the c

Monday, July 18, 2011

What will 4th Street look like in twenty years?

By Sarah Karlinsky
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The SF Caltrain station at 4th and King. Image courtesy flickr user Shaffner

The stretch of 4th Street between Market Street and the Caltrain station at 4th and King Street may not be one of San Francisco’s best-known neighborhoods (at least not yet), but it’s a

Monday, July 18, 2011

Redevelopment is dead. Long live redevelopment!

By Sarah Karlinsky
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San Francisco Transbay Terminal, one of several projects thrown into question by Governor Brown's abolishment of redevelopment agencies. Image courtesy Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

This year has been a wild one for redevelopment agencies in in California.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Could Mid-Market become SF's next hot neighborhood?

By Sarah Karlinsky
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Image courtesy flickr user Franco Folini

There's been a lot of hullabaloo about San Francisco's Mid
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Treasure Island moves forward to Planning Commission

Plans for Treasure Island are moving forward to the Planning Commission in March.