LETTERS
Readers from around the state share kudos for Northern News.
Northern News recognizes our photographers for 2019
Thanks to the 21 people who provided photos for this publication last year. Andrea Mardesich scoured past issues to prepare this list.
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Meet a local planner – Duncan Watry, AICP
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.
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The price of saving Paradise
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.
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Minor reparations
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.
In memoriam, Brian Mattson, 84
The deceased in 1999. Bay Area planners may remember him as the planning director in Novato and the community development director in Vallejo.
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Key characteristics of vibrant places
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.
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Inflection point: What we do when significant change occurs
By Andrea Ouse, AICP, August 17, 2020. Planners are often the agents driving the changes voiced by our communities. We have a moral and ethical imperative to acknowledge and address systemic racism in the communities we serve.
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Planning profession trends under Covid-19
By Mark Rhoades, AICP, August 19, 2020. Broad changes and trends are currently underway, especially with respect to Covid-19 and housing implementation.
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