By Geoff Ball and Debbie Mytels, February 15, 2021. Cities are the one community-based institution holding responsibility for tending to everyone’s needs, and cities are uniquely positioned to take on the challenge of creating carbon reduction policies that account for the needs of varied stakeholders.
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“In Brave New Home, Diana Lind shows why a country full of single-family houses is bad for us and for the planet.” To be our reviewer, click “Read more.”
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The deadline to apply for Northern Section Awards is approaching. To submit your award-worthy project by 5:00 pm on Friday, March 12, visit norcalapa.org/awards.
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News about Elizabeth Burks, Lakshmi Rajagopalan, Stephanie Steinbrecher, and Mark Wardlaw, assembled by Haeseo (Hazel) Choi.
By Ludo Campbell-Reid, Feb. 11, 2021. Transforming or adapting cities is as much about behavioral change as physical change. We should be psychologists before we are planners, architects, engineers, or economists.
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(Mt. Tamalpais and Angel Island, from Oakland. Photo: E. Rynecki, Feb. 2021) Featured articles: • Artist-driven community engagement • Work through community conflict on climate change by confronting fears • Pandemic severely impacted taxable retail sales in Napa-Sonoma Wine Country • and a seven-page manga on the life and work of Denise Scott Brown.
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By William Fulton, CP&DR, Feb 8, 2021. Using SB 35, the developer could build twice as many units in a building twice as tall as would otherwise be permitted.
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By James Rojas, February 12, 2021. A workshop on public spaces in the Diridon Station Area of San Jose was a perfect opportunity to experiment with innovative, creative, and virtual engagement tools to connect people to the planning process and influence the outcomes.
Artist-driven community engagement — and all that jazz! Read More »
By Sandra Hamlat, January 25, 2021. The City of San Francisco’s Climate Resilience Team recently prepared a white paper on a Climate-Resilient Economic Recovery.
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By Noah Buhayar, Bloomberg, January 12, 2021. There are already signs of an early rebound in leases.
San Francisco office vacancy rate eclipses financial-crisis high Read More »
