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Nov. 03, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Mayor and Chief Planner to San Francisco~Vancouver wants to Collaborate on Housing Solutions

The Mayor of Vancouver and the Chief City Planner Gil Kelley have jointly submitted an editorial which has appeared in the San…
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Sep. 12, 2017 / Gordon Price

Daily Durning: Bike Barometers in San Francisco

Old hat here, but they seem excited in SF.  From Governing: Bike commuting is the fastest-growing mode of transportation. And…
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Jul. 31, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

San Francisco Seniors Protest for Longer Pedestrian Crossing Times

The San Francisco Examiner and Joe Rodrigeuz   report on an unusual protest Friday morning where fifty senior citizens carried out…
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Jun. 03, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Impressions of San Francisco

Standing in front of City Lights Bookstore, looking down Columbus Avenue past Vesuvio’s bar (with Jack Kerouac Lane coming in…
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Jun. 03, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Herzog & de Meuron in San Francisco

I had the opportunity on a recent trip to San Francisco, my first since 2005, to visit the new-to-me de…
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Mar. 07, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Have High Tech Job in San Fran But Can't Pay the Rent

  CNBC reports on a sobering situation in San Francisco-even though high tech workers can make $100,000 to $700,000 a…
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Dec. 20, 2016 / michaelkluckner

Tech uber cyclists

From The Guardian: another kind of collateral damage as tech marches on…. Despite threats of legal action from the department…
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Dec. 05, 2016 / Gordon Price

SF Diary

Dianna reports: BART Communications Department Manager Alicia Trost: “My department is working on a campaign that we can deploy with…
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Sep. 22, 2016 / Gordon Price

Art and Transit in San Francisco

“Lightrail” would run for about 2 miles above downtown’s Market Street, one of the city’s busiest arteries, showing in whizzing,…
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Sep. 12, 2016 / Gordon Price

Daily Scot: Motordom Adapts to a New World

From the Verge: Ford … is acquiring Chariot, a private, crowdsourced shuttle service based in San Francisco, and is investing in Motivate,…
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Sep. 01, 2016 / Gordon Price

Quotes from Ian: The Closed, Expensive City

From The New Yorker: “… cities that planners thought would hollow out and become obsolete have instead become magnets for…
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Aug. 12, 2016 / Gordon Price

San Francisco: Activist Action for Active Transport

… on a recent Friday evening, a trio of safe streets activists wearing brightly colored safety vests arrived on their…
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Aug. 12, 2016 / Gordon Price

New Heritage: Legacy Businesses in San Francisco

From sf.curbed: Nine months after voters passed Prop J, the city has conferred the special laurel of Legacy Business onto…
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Aug. 11, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: Palo Alto Perspective

Housing unaffordable for young people in Vancouver?  It could be worse.  It could be Palo Alto – a small city…

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