I had the pleasure of meeting Scott Wiener a few times when I lived in San Francisco. He was then on the Board of Supervisors, representing District 8, the other side of the city from my apartment in the Presidio. We were on a panel together…
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February 22, 2018 | Climate Innovation Laboratory Cities, Guest Blogger, Markets, Urban Transformation
In the rising wave of optimistic, but pie-in-the sky, smart city initiatives, Boston’s “Smart Cities Playbook” takes a pause for a refreshing examination of what cities actually need to move their projects and initiatives forward. It’s an honest and practical description of where the city is…
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We Need To Analyze What Puts Disadvantaged Communities At Risk and Engage Marginalized People in Disaster Planning Last year, Americans endured an unrelenting series of climate calamities: hurricanes in Texas, Florida and the Caribbean; wildfires and mudslides in California; drought in the Dakotas; flooding in the Midwest.…
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I can’t say it any better than Enrico Moretti in his New York Times op-ed on the severe housing and environmental crisis raging in the Bay Area, brought to painful light by the recent wildfires in Napa and Sonoma counties. As Moretti, an economist at UC…
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An interesting angle in the New York Times on the nexus between the housing shortage in California and the impact of the recent Wine Country fires, which has left many who lost their homes with few options for temporary shelter owing to a lack of available…
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October 19, 2017 | Adaptive Futures, Cities, Compact Development, Equity, Green Infrastructure, Guest Blogger, Urban TransformationSustainable development, impact real estate, smart growth, equitable development. Whatever you want to call it, I’d like to suggest it really starts with housing, which is currently in a crisis mode. Having moved back to Boulder in 2016 after five years in San Francisco, I can…
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