Planning effort to develop a conceptual master plan for Cargo Way, a segment of the Bay Trail in Bayview Hunter’s Point. Presently an industrial boulevard serving the City’s cargo and freight transportation needs, the process established strategies and guidelines for a safe and attractive mix used street shared with pedestrians and cyclists.
Go to Post | September 12th, 2008sustainability
Greening the Port of San Francisco’s Backlands
The latest master plan for the Port of San Francisco’s 47 acres Backlands, Piers 90 and 94, identifies potential tenants with both the means to build and operate within a sustainability program.
Go to Post | September 9th, 2008Book Review: The Designer’s Atlas by Ann Thorpe
The Designer’s Atlas of Sustainability is about how design in all fields can move toward the goals of sustainability; the integration of information about design and sustainability rewards users with a rich range of ideas, concepts, and facts presented in a sophisticated format that is itself thought-provoking. As with other kinds of atlases, the varied text does not converge on one conclusion. Rather, readers take what they need to make their own.
Go to Post | July 24th, 2008Book Review: Design for Ecological Democracy
This densely written and wonderfully illustrated book seeks answers to questions such as: what is wrong with the cities we have created and what can be done to correct our mistakes?
Go to Post | July 6th, 2008










