In a new report, SPUR examines how governance choices that have been made over time have distributed authority and maximized oversight, leading to policies that don’t always meet the needs of the people they intend to serve. Join us for an advanced preview of the report and a conversation about how we can design our governance structure to work better for the people of San Francisco.

Join SPUR and Urban Vibrancy Institute for an exciting historic district block party in Paseo de San Antonio. Get ready for an unforgettable evening filled with live music, delicious food and drinks, exciting tours of new businesses, and much more. This is your chance to celebrate our community, support local businesses, and connect with your neighbors. Don't miss out on the fun! Block Party: 5-9pm

As San Francisco faces new challenges, considering emergent models can provide new perspectives. This event will present urbanist scholars from Jakarta—the world’s second largest city and one of its fastest growing—who will discuss current patterns of urban transformation there. Join SPUR and USF for a series of roundtables with urbanists from the Bay Area that will engage these concepts in the local context to discern collectively what lessons we can take away from engaging with Asia’s emerging cities. Schedule: 1:00 - 2:30PM Panel Discussion: Urban Development in Contemporary Jakarta 2:45 - 3:30 PM Roundtable 1 3:30 - 4:15 PM Roundtable 2 4:15 - 5:00 PM Roundtable 3 5:00 - 6:00 PM Post-Event Mixer *Roundtable Topics and Panelists to be updated at a later date.

Latin America is one of the most urbanized regions globally, with 81% of its population residing in urban areas. However, the rapid expansion of these urban centers has been largely uncoordinated, presenting a host of challenges in areas such as public services, mobility, congestion, pollution, housing affordability, and crime. In this upcoming webinar, Soledad Guilera will talk about the transformative potential of AI by spotlighting instances where Latin American cities have successfully integrated AI technologies into their urban frameworks.

In Killed by a Traffic Engineer, civil engineering professor Wes Marshall shines a spotlight on how little science there is behind the way that our streets are engineered, which leaves safety as an afterthought. While traffic engineers are not trying to cause deliberate harm to anyone, he explains, they are guilty of creating a transportation system whose designs remain largely based on plausible, but unproven, conjecture.