By highlighting the vocabulary of sustainable agriculture, and with it the conversation about America’s rapidly evolving food culture, The Lexicon of Sustainability educates, engages and activates people to pay closer attention to how they eat, what they buy and where their responsibility begins for creating a healthier, safer food system in America.

What does history smell like? Over the past decade, a surprising number of historians, preservationists, architects and artists have experimented with scents to record, represent and reconstruct historical buildings, interiors and cities. From a 21st century Rotterdam sweetened with aromas of its river to the foul stench of an early 18th century Paris, join us for an olfactory odyssey through landscapes, both agrarian and urban…

The twentieth century saw both a series of ambitious efforts to reimagine the city of San Francisco and the explosive growth of the Bay Area as a metropolitan region. In Unbuilt San Francisco: The View From Futures Past , the California Historical Society and SPUR will present some of the most revealing episodes in these distinct but related streams of civic discourse through projects that were proposed but never realized.

After receiving much acclaim in San Francisco, Grand Reductions: Ten Diagrams That Shaped City Planning is now on exhibit at SPUR San Jose!

Great cities are built in layers — it is the juxtaposition of old and new that gives cities their interesting corners, their urban surprises and their texture. SPUR’s latest exhibition celebrates this diversity and shows how the adaptation, transformation and reuse of historic structures are key to the life of our city. Co-presented by San Francisco Heritage and CMG Landscape Architecture.

In the SPUR Urban Center back gallery: How do architecture and water interact with each other? SPUR presents selected 2013 Master of Architecture thesis work by students in the College of Environmental Design at University of California at Berkeley. Developed in studios on Architecture and Water directed by Professors Marc Anderson, Paz Gutierrez and Rene Davids, and supported by architecture chair Tom Buresh, the projects…