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Enviro, Preservation Concerns Drive Opposition to Presidio Main Post Plans

By Susan Vaughan | Apr 10, 2009 | 3 Comments

Flickr photo: 2composers Revised plans for the Main Post of San Francisco’s Presidio national park, which include construction of a contemporary art museum for the collection of billionaire businessman Donald Fisher, are still unsatisfactory, say many preservationists, environmentalists, and neighbors who attended a hearing on the new plans Tuesday night. Despite the fact that the […]

A New Mural in the Tenderloin

By Chris Carlsson | Mar 18, 2009 | No Comments

The mural is being painted on the white building in the second square from left, as seen from the Bell Tower atop St. Boniface Church on Golden Gate. (Photo LisaRuth Elliott) A new mural is taking shape in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, at the corner of Jones and Golden Gate, diagonally across from St. Anthony’s Dining […]

The Nearly Extinct Bipedus Norteamericanus Makes a Comeback

By Matthew Roth | Mar 3, 2009 | 3 Comments

Anthropologists and transit advocates have long bemoaned the rise of The Sacred Rac, its subsequent worship by the majority of the people of the Asu tribe, and the attendant demise of bipedus norteamericanus, or the common pedestrian. But new evidence appears every day that the once-endangered pedestrian may be seeing a resurgence in urban habitats […]

San Francisco Should Take Cues from New York and Just Try It!

By Matthew Roth | Feb 26, 2009 | 19 Comments

The vision for closing Broadway in Times Square, which will happen by May Urban space advocates the world over use best practice examples from other cities to raise the bar on policy and praxis in their own cities. For years in New York, Transportation Alternatives and the NYC Streets Renaissance Campaign invoked the phrase "Lessons […]

Bay to Breakers: The Death of Fun?

By Greg Riessen | Feb 13, 2009 | 7 Comments

Bay to Breakers (B2B) is under attack. For countless thousands both in San Francisco and around the world, the third Sunday in May has always represented an eclectic mix of athleticism and hedonism, one that no other event in any other city can deliver. But in their crusade to suburbanize our great metropolis, curmudgeons are set […]

Good Roads?

By Chris Carlsson | Feb 12, 2009 | 1 Comment

I just finished an interesting journey that took me to the World Social Forum at the mouth of the Amazon River system in Belem, Brazil, and then to Los Angeles and finally home, just in time to attend a presentation last night at CounterPULSE of Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscapes III. The show consists of rare […]

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