President Biden’s infrastructure spending plan could benefit big Bay Area transit projects
By Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, March 31, 2021. The plan is expected to benefit California’s transit agencies and high-speed rail project.
By Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, March 31, 2021. The plan is expected to benefit California’s transit agencies and high-speed rail project.
From Barcelona Institute for Global Health, March 30, 2021. This study is the first to estimate premature mortality impacts and the distribution by socioeconomic status of multiple environmental exposures related to urban planning and transport in the two cities.
By Shira Ovide, The New York Times, March 29, 2021. A growing body of evidence suggests that on-demand ride services have negatively impacted traffic in major urban downtowns.
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By Emily Nonko, Next City, March 25, 2021. The proposal, modeled on SF Creative Corps, would support artists and performers serving as public communicators.
California may launch its own version of the Depression-era WPA Read More »
By Brynn McKiernan, AICP, April 16, 2021. Our jurors were Ozzy Arce, City of Walnut Creek; Florentina Craciun, City and County of San Francisco; Amalia Cunningham, AICP, Contra Costa County; Eri Suzuki, SiteLab; and Aaron Welch, Aaron Welch Planning. Click to see the winners.
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By Sandy Smith, March 10, 2021. Because of Covid-induced funding shortfalls, many public transit agencies have been facing doomsday scenarios: fare hikes, massive service cuts, and delayed projects.
Transit agencies praise Covid-19 relief bill Read More »
Interviewed by Catarina Kidd, AICP. Desai is Vice President for Diversity and Equity for APA California and serves on the Chapter’s Executive Board.
Meet a Local Planner: Miroo Desai, AICP Read More »
Takeaways from a Feb. 12 webinar by Hyojung Lee and Kristin L. Perkins, HUD USER, March 9, 2021. Gentrification affects neighborhoods in many American cities, but the particular pattern of resident outmigration is strongly influenced by the broader metropolitan context in which it occurs.
The spatial heterogeneity of gentrification Read More »
By Alan Hoffman, March 17, 2021. Planners can give the public an idea of what optimized regional transportation networks can look like and what’s possible. (A version of this article appeared in Meeting of the Minds, November 2020.)
Post-pandemic planning, Part 1: Optimizing transportation networks Read More »
By Lindsay Neiman, Planning Magazine, Winter 2021. This roundup selects just four of the eleven described in the article.
11 women whose work can inspire post-pandemic planning Read More »