Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Urban Design

Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change

By Peter Calthorpe | Jan 25, 2011 | 17 Comments

Editor’s note: Today we are very pleased to begin a five-part series of excerpts from Peter Calthorpe’s book, “Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change.” Keep reading this week and next to learn how you can win a copy of the book from Island Press. I take as a given that climate change is an […]

Phelan Bus Loop Project, First in Balboa Area Plan, Gets Federal Funding

By Bryan Goebel | Jul 8, 2010 | 2 Comments

A reconfigured Phelan Bus Loop. Graphic: SF Planning Department A proposal to reconfigure the Phelan Bus Loop as part of the Balboa Park Station Area Plan received a major boost today with the announcement that the Federal Transit Administration has awarded the SFMTA more than $6.8 million for the project. In a statement, the FTA […]

Traffic Engineer Jack Fleck Looks Back at 25 Years of Shaping SF Streets

By Bryan Goebel | Jul 1, 2010 | 18 Comments

Jack Fleck, who retired yesterday after 25 years with the SFMTA, has been pondering the city’s streets from his 7th floor office above Van Ness and Market Streets. Photos by Bryan Goebel. Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series on the past, present and future of traffic engineering in San Francisco. Jack […]

Technology and Impotence

By Chris Carlsson | May 28, 2010 | 7 Comments

The BP oil spill goes on. And on. We watch the oil on live web cam pouring into the Gulf of Mexico. And we watch. Political rage is muted, practical responses even more distant. What to do? How do we “take action” on something like this? How can individuals meaningfully respond to this catastrophe? Stop driving? Boycott one brand of gas? Stop buying things made of plastic?

White House Pitches $400M for Healthier Neighborhood Food Outlets

By Elana Schor | Feb 3, 2010 | 1 Comment

The connection between walkable development and grocery shopping may not seem immediately apparent — until you consider studies conducted in cities from Austin to Seattle that showed the share of trips taken by foot or by transit rises as local food outlets move closer to residential areas. The White House budget envisions a new investment […]

StreetUtopia North Beach

By Chris Carlsson | Jan 25, 2010 | 3 Comments

View southeast across North Beach from Russian Hill. StreetUtopia is a new community organizing effort centered in North Beach. Launched by Hank Hyena and Phil Millenbah at an inaugural event in early January, they drew upwards of 150 people to an empty historic storefront at 1 Columbus Avenue, where they showed Streetfilms, had a small […]

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