By Alex Hinds, September 11, 2020. Small town post offices dot our Northern Section. They’re critical, and loved.
Northern Section is more than the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas Read More »
Thanks to the 21 people who provided photos for this publication last year. Andrea Mardesich scoured past issues to prepare this list.
Northern News recognizes our photographers for 2019 Read More »
Catarina Kidd, AICP, interviews Duncan Watry, AICP, about his role (since January 2020) as planning manager for the New Transbay Rail Crossing, a project of BART and the Capital Corridor Joint Powers Authority.
Meet a local planner – Duncan Watry, AICP Read More »
By Laura Bliss, Bloomberg CityLab, August 25, 2020. “The fire was a monumental event and altered people’s way of thinking about things,” including whether the entire community should be surrounded by defensible space.
The price of saving Paradise Read More »
By Roxane Gay, Work Friend, The New York Times, August 9, 2020. It is absolutely unacceptable that your agency is asking you to spend your own money to improve the agency’s thinking and efforts around diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The deceased in 1999. Bay Area planners may remember him as the planning director in Novato and the community development director in Vallejo.
In memoriam, Brian Mattson, 84 Read More »
By Noah Friedman, August 18, 2020. Vibrancy is a reasonable proxy for a city’s general health and well-being. Essential to our cities’ future is an understanding of what makes the places where we come together vibrant.
Key characteristics of vibrant places Read More »
