Save the date August 27th, 2026
San Franciso Giants vs. Arizona Diamond Backs. Tickets will be on sale in July
BY JOHN RAMOS SAN FRANCISCO -- Each weekend in San Francisco for the past six months a different street has been closed to traffic to allow residents to come out and play. It's a program called "Sunday Streets" and it has been wildly popular. Now, some are proposing [...]
by Timothy A. Schuler CREATIVE CROSSWALKS ARE INCREASINGLY POPULAR—EXCEPT AMONG THE DISABLED. Viewed by both designers and departments of transportation as an inexpensive way to improve the public realm, street murals that embellish or sometimes even replace traditional crosswalks have become staples in the placemaking playbook. Over the past two [...]
by Nate Berg On the corner of 9th Avenue and Little West 12th Street in Manhattan, a large hexagonal steel planter holds a burst of succulents, ferns, and grasses. Hidden beneath its 2,000 pounds worth of soil and plants are specially designed wheels that allow the planter to do something magical. [...]
by John King Residential towers opened last year in San Francisco and Oakland. Silicon Valley sprouted yet more tech compounds wrapped in glass that glistens with an icy sheen. But the most profound change to the Bay Area’s urban landscape in 2020 had nothing to do with buildings, [...]
Disadvantaged residents from predominately Black neighborhoods have fewer options in face of gentrification. by Sanrda Feder A new study by a Stanford sociologist has determined that the negative effects of gentrification are felt disproportionately by minority communities, whose residents have fewer options of neighborhoods they can move to [...]
The researchers set out to understand where nature contributes the most to people and how many people may be affected by future changes. By 2050, up to 5 billion people could be at higher risk of water pollution, coastal storms and underpollinated crops. BY SARAH CAFASSO Stanford Natural Capital [...]
BY MAY WONG Consider the last time you hired an electrician, plumber or painter. Did you care to check if they were licensed or not? If licensing status was not your priority, you are not alone, according to new research by Stanford economist Brad Larsen. Larsen's research finds that [...]
BY SARAH CAFASSO An international team led by Stanford University and the University of Washington is working to bring the mental health benefits of nature to city-dwellers. To do so, the team has created a way of helping city planners, landscape architects, developers and others anticipate the mental health [...]
BY MICHELLE HORTON Two experts from Stanford's Water in the West program explain the potential impacts on the future of water in California of the proposed plan to downsize the $17 billion Delta twin tunnels project. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced this week his plan to downsize the Delta [...]
by Alicia Rennoll In 2018, California passed Proposition 68 to inject $4.1 billion into the state and local parks, water infrastructure projects, environmental conservation, and flood protection projects, according to Ballotpedia. Part of the state's plan is to make the great outdoors more accessible to California's growing population. To [...]