The San Francisco Bay Area's transformation into a sprawling, exclusive and high-income community with less and less room for its low-income residents is just beginning, according to UC Berkeley researchers who literally have it all mapped out.
San Francisco is starting to resemble a boring suburban place
When greed makes a place like New York, London or San Francisco unaffordable, the non-wealthy leave, and the city loses the smells and tastes that made it great.
Smart Growth: Caveats from a Skeptic ("Yes, ...but what about...", "Show me the data!") (PDF of a PowerPoint presentation) by Douglas Moran, 26 February 2007. A presentation to a forum sponsored by Acterra. Added as counter-point to GLUE: Green, Liveable Urban Environment and the Greenbelt Alliance.
Get Rid of Single Family Zoning in SeattleHousing Task Force Says in Draft Report - Danny Westneat - Seattle Times, 2015-07-07.
These conversations shouldn’t be secret. A draft of the work of the Seattle mayor's housing task force includes a big surprise: They have talked of doing away with the city's single-family zoning.
Amageddon: How Amazon's culture is taking a toll on Seattle's future by Jeff Reifman (Guest Commentary) - GeekWire, 2014-11-19.
When I arrived in Seattle in 1991, Tim Wistrom's art playfully epitomized post-apocalyptic Seattle.
As pressures mount for county bus agency, will Palo Alto be left without service?
The main goal of transportation that costs riders nothing—getting people out of their cars—can't be achieved by eliminating fares.
Buena Vista Mobile Home Park is in my neighborhood, Barron Park
It's an unusual but potentially lucrative investment: billionaire Warren Buffett is heavily invested, and his and others' success is prompting ordinary people to attend Mobile Home University, aboot campin trailer park ownership.
To drown out flight noise, the Amsterdam Airport turned to large-scale landscaping
as little as possible(editorial) - SILive.com (Staten Island, New York), 2015-08-xx.
There's a great scene in the film noir classic about corruption on many levels,Chinatown,in which Jack Nicholson, as the hard-boiled cop-turned-private eye, Jake Gittes, tells his twitchy, upmarket client, Evelyn Mulwray, played by Faye Dunaway, that he used to work in Chinatown for the district attorney's office. Mrs. Mulwray asks,Doing what?As little as possible,Gittes replies. An incredulous Mrs. Mulwray wondersThe district attorney gives his men advice like that?They do in Chinatown.We're reminded of that exchange whenever we hear yet another story about the city Department of Buildings enforcing the regulations with something less than maximum vigor. There were a lot of such reports emanating from the stealth assault that led to beloved spiritual and natural oasis of Mount Manresa being razed by the developers in preparation for yet another warren of hundreds of townhouses. The Manresa debacle That sad process is ongoing. Throughout, there have been legitimate legal and public health concerns expressed by both residents and activists about what the developer was doing at the site of the former Jesuit retreat house. Throughout, the Buildings Department insisted that the work was all in compliance with regulations. Then, asbestos was found…
Dozens of neighbors in an exclusive Evergreen enclave are fighting a proposed 10-acre development they say will increase the number of homes in their area by 25 times what's allowed under the current general plan.