City Center City Center is the product of an “urban renewal” effort initially launched in the 1950s. The original plan was to raze 70 blocks of aging Victorian and Italianate style buildings with modern office towers. Objections from residents and property owners led to a much more modest redevelopment plan in 1966, focused on a […]
The APA’s Sustainable Communities Division (SCD) is launching a new pilot sustainability leadership program, the State Chapter Sustainability Champion program. They accepted nominations and selected champions this past August/September. Scott Edmondson, founder, ex-co-director, and now Research Program lead for the Northern Section’s Sustainability Committee, was nominated and then selected as the California State APA Chapter champion and is looking
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Big changes on horizon for traffic impact analysis under CEQA. Stephen E. Velyvis and Amy E. Hoyt, Page 1 Where in the world. Hugh Graham, P. 3 My Oakland. Erika J. Sawyer, AICP, interviews Mike Rivera, Page 7 Japan’s Bullet Train turns 50. Cameron Allen McKean, NEXT CITY. World’s first high-speed rail network remains the gold standard in train travel, Page 9 Who’s where. Marco
Around the Bay in 500 miles. Jonathan Berlin, recipient, Northern News Silver Pen Award. The San Francisco Bay Trail, 25 years old and a planning landmark. Page 1 Plan-it sustainably. Scott T. Edmondson, AICP. SF experiments with new visualization tools. Page 7 Five from area receive State APA awards. Page 9 Downtown San Jose is becoming a vibrant urban center. Matt Taecker,
Twenty-seven APA colleagues embarked on a multi-country, international planning tour of Eastern Europe in June 2014. The group visited Belgrade, Serbia; Budapest, Hungary; Krakow, Poland; Tallinn, Estonia; and St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia. Half of the group went on a pre-tour to Prague, Czech Republic. All of these countries were reined in by the communist system for one-half
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Old meets new as mixed-use campus opens in Oakland. By Lyn Hikida. Historic St. Joseph’s complex adapted for affordable housing. Page 1 Our 2015 Chapter Conference logo. Designed by Circlepoint’s Amie Krager to showcase Oakland’s skyline and roots. Page 7 My Oakland. Erika J. Sawyer, AICP, interviews Rosie Dudley — urban designer, Oakland resident, and artist. Page 12 Northern Section’s
[see Professor Acey’s summary at the UCB IURD Blog] This topic is covered in a few posts, as follows: Initial Event Invitation/Description, including links to APA and related resources. Links to the Student Team Presentations. Expanded Article (forthcoming), July/August 2014 Plan-it sustainability, Northern News During the spring of 2014, students in a UCB sustainability
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During Spring 2014, Assistant Professor Charisma Acey’s undergraduate UC Berkeley class, CP 119 Planning for Sustainability, evaluated the APA’s beta version of their Comprehensive Plan Sustainability Accreditation Criteria for their final class project. Student teams applied the criteria to 11 Bay Area Cities, and their final presentations are listed below by city. In addition, the APA Sustainability Committee created a CM event to
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In the interests of advancing sustainability by sharing existing resources and experience more widely, this post brings together links to the new Sustainable Communities Division, to the five formal sustainability committees of APA State Chapters, and to related links to important State Chapter work that is not part of a formal sustainability committee. Each committee’s
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Report from the APA Conference. Barry Miller, FAICP. The good and not so good of the Atlanta conference. Page 1 Meet a local planner. Siân Llewellyn, AICP, interviews Alex Amoroso, AICP, principal planner, Berkeley. Page 3 Planners’ program in Brazil. Northern section’s newest international collaboration and exchange program. Page 5 2014 Award winners, APA California-Northern. Summaries and photos for seven Awards of Merit
