Archive
456 posts, interviews, and field notes — now searchable and hosted here.
Feb 21, 2013
This is why sustainability matters… to borrow from the inscription I remember form the facade of Hilgard Hall… to rescue for human society (and posterity) the native values of rural life.
Feb 8, 2013
Second City Zoning crp338: Interesting use of open-source data.
Feb 6, 2013
Really Looking Forward to the Talk on Friday 2/8!
Feb 6, 2013
OMG. There is a bus that picks me up right outside work and drops me off a block from my front door. And it took me more than FIVE YEARS to discover this. Random conversation overheard on a college campus. Anecdotal support for better information/outreach/marketing about alternative transportation options? You be the j
Dec 29, 2012
Just discovered the beautiful train station in SLO.
Dec 20, 2012
What I really want for Christmas is to learn to use one of these.
Jun 8, 2012
Engineering Wood to Match Steel Fascinating article on cross-laminated timber use on high rise residential buildings that “is strong and rigid enough to match steel and concrete.” If lower cost, then could provide solution for more affordable housing in locations willing to relax building codes and accept n
May 30, 2012
Quintessential Bay Area Style Charateristic (Taken with instagram)
May 30, 2012
And the More Modern Take… (Taken with instagram)
Apr 12, 2012
Photo from Tuesday ribbon cutting at AC Transit’s new hydrogen fueling station, which will not only accommodate the zero-emission buses the system is currently using, but, in the future, private cars. Now I’m wondering where I get my steam-emitting Mercedes.
Apr 9, 2012
Creating Garden City or something like it with my son
Apr 5, 2012
Seismic retrofit at CA Memorial Stadium
Mar 26, 2012
Buildings as Bargaining Chips for a Bridge My friend, Dr. Karen Frick, interviewed by the New York Times on historic buildings on Treasure Island / YBI, the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge and economic development in Oakland / San Francisco; many of which I worked on while at the US Coast Guard.
Mar 26, 2012
ucberkeleyplanning: Berkeley DAP passes after seven years setting building guidelines and sustainability thresholds.
Mar 10, 2012
The planner as the technician: desktop looking a little too crowded these days…
Mar 8, 2012
Campus Housing and Transportation Survey Being Conducted
Feb 27, 2012
Type Face Shaping Urban Regeneration?
Feb 18, 2012
Helped this ewe give birth this morning at Rinconada Dairy near #SLO – awesome!
Feb 14, 2012
Today’s view from Wurster Hall, Room 1000, where my Transportation Advisory Group regularly meets.
Feb 13, 2012
Skin installation on new UC housing going up. My office did planning entitlements and I wrote design guidelines.
Feb 12, 2012
Working on some publications using graphics and data from my dissertation (2011) focused walkability and housing in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Feb 10, 2012
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too… If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch;… Continue reading Untitled
Feb 7, 2012
…the most important qualities in a city planner are “principled”, “integrity”, “professionalism”, and “passion”. Brent Toderian, Former Vancouver Planning Director
Jan 31, 2012
Higher Ed Moving Online and the Campus Environs? Reports about this Stanford artificial intelligence course getting 160K enrollees may offer an insight into the future of higher education – especially if universities can begin charging for this enrollment to bring in extra revenue, without paying for the physical