By George Avalos, San Jose Mercury News, April 7, 2021. Google intends to donate the land to the city for the development of affordable homes.
Google-backed affordable home site in downtown San Jose could sprout near Shark Tank Read More »
From HUD User, April 6, 2021. San Jose’s experience, along with three other U.S. cities, informed a framework that can be applied to many kinds of communities.
HUD report – new approach for estimating costs of homeless encampment responses Read More »
By Clayton Ashley, Polygon, April 1, 2021. The game was inspired by a book suggesting that social policies meant to help cities are in fact detrimental to their success.
The ideology hiding in SimCity’s black box – with comment from James Castañeda, AICP Read More »
By Jennifer Wadsworth, San Jose Spotlight, March 31, 2021. Berryessa flea market business owners and their representatives expect the city or some other public entity to help prevent displacement and gentrification.
By Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, March 31, 2021. The plan is expected to benefit California’s transit agencies and high-speed rail project.
From Barcelona Institute for Global Health, March 30, 2021. This study is the first to estimate premature mortality impacts and the distribution by socioeconomic status of multiple environmental exposures related to urban planning and transport in the two cities.
By Shira Ovide, The New York Times, March 29, 2021. A growing body of evidence suggests that on-demand ride services have negatively impacted traffic in major urban downtowns.
What we got wrong about Uber and Lyft Read More »
By Emily Nonko, Next City, March 25, 2021. The proposal, modeled on SF Creative Corps, would support artists and performers serving as public communicators.
California may launch its own version of the Depression-era WPA Read More »
By Brynn McKiernan, AICP, April 16, 2021. Our jurors were Ozzy Arce, City of Walnut Creek; Florentina Craciun, City and County of San Francisco; Amalia Cunningham, AICP, Contra Costa County; Eri Suzuki, SiteLab; and Aaron Welch, Aaron Welch Planning. Click to see the winners.
Northern Section 2021 Awards announced Read More »
By Sandy Smith, March 10, 2021. Because of Covid-induced funding shortfalls, many public transit agencies have been facing doomsday scenarios: fare hikes, massive service cuts, and delayed projects.
Transit agencies praise Covid-19 relief bill Read More »
