Director’s note: Is work part of your identity?
By Florentina Craciun, February 18, 2021. Can the work of urban planning sustain a work-from-home culture?
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By Florentina Craciun, February 18, 2021. Can the work of urban planning sustain a work-from-home culture?
Director’s note: Is work part of your identity? Read More »
By John Rau, Feb 11, 2021. An economic analysis of the Napa/Sonoma wine country trade area for the second and third quarters of 2020 showed that taxable retail sales and revenues in the area declined dramatically in several categories as a result of stay-at-home orders and resulting business closures.
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By Jared Brey, February 12, 2021. Bills in the California and Hawaii legislatures offer innovative solutions affordable to people at a wide range of incomes. Santa Clara County is highlighted.
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Now 89, Scott Brown is an icon of modern architecture and urban planning.
Manga biography celebrates Denise Scott Brown Read More »
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.
Last call for Award submittals Read More »
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.
Everyone wants progress but no one wants change Read More »
(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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