Thank you for reading my blog. My name is Daniel Jacobson and I am an undergraduate student in Urban Studies at Stanford University . I am from Richmond, California, and have closely followed Bay Area urban planning issues since 2005. I have interned the past few summers at the Port of Oakland and the San Francisco nonprofits Livable City and Urban Ecology, and spent much of high school working at the Donald P. McCullum Youth Court in Oakland. I intend to go into urban planning because I believe that it is the most effective way to tackle the issues of Climate Change, oil consumption, declining public health, and population growth, while at the same time creating more livable and enjoyable cities for all.
Email me at daniel.aaron.jacobson at gmail dot com
If one mayor represented all of Alameda and Contra Costa counties, that person's 2.5 million constituents would live in the country's fourth-largest city. And just as these East Bay counties are very different from the rest of the San Francisco Bay Area, the East Bay Express is a very different paper. From the international populations that make Oakland and Richmond so dynamic, to the ideological diversity that separates Berkeley from Walnut Creek, our readers are united by their love of a region that is second to nowhere in beauty, livability, intellectual firepower, and cosmopolitan charm.
Every week, the Express provides these well-educated world travelers the only medium dedicated exclusively to them. From our authoritative cover stories; to our in-depth local reporting, arts and dining coverage; to the area's most comprehensive weekly calendar; the East Bay Express has been this vibrant region's leading voice since 1978.
An independent service providing podcasts of BART board meetings and bicycle accessibility task force meetings, as well as links to other recorded meetings
I was frustrated that there was no place to go to find out quickly What’s going on with the Bay Bridge.
It seems this question is going to keep coming up at least until the reconstruction is done, so it made sense to start a community site to share information about the bridge.
I took the picture used in the banner, driving across the upper deck of the bridge on Nov 1, 2007.
Welcome to Beyond Chron, the Voice of the Rest. We provide coverage of political and cultural issues often distorted or ignored by the Bay Area's largest newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle. Beyond Chron presents a critical look at the cutting edge issues of the day. Beyond Chron is published by the San Francisco-based Tenderloin Housing Clinic. Clinic Director Randy Shaw is the paper's editor. Shaw is a longtime San Francisco activist who has published three books on activism, The Activist's Handbook, Reclaiming America, and his new work, Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century. The University of California Press published all three books. Paul Hogarth is Beyond Chron's managing editor. Hogarth is an activist and attorney who has been both a college journalist and a former elected official in Berkeley.
California Beat is a website about the people, places and things of the San Francisco Bay Area.
I recently wrote a blog post listing some of what I consider to be essential Oakland experiences. I added to that original list some suggestions provided by my blog readers, and now I intend to go through the list and blog about each of these experiences. As I blog about them, I’ll update this page with links to the corresponding blog posts and it will be easy to tell what I’ve done because I’ll mark them in bold and move them to the top of the list.
I run the popular "N Judah Chronicles" website, where I write about San Francisco urban life from the perspective of a daily MUNI rider. The blog was voted by San Franciscans as "Best Local Blog" in 2008, and has received recognition locally since 2005.
One’s inclination when ones clothing catches fire is to run around waving their arms wildly to douse the flames. By slowing down and being mindful of our actions, it’s easy to remember to stop, drop and roll.
Contact me at JKWBlog@gmail.com
In light of environmental challenges facing the world switching to transit will be one of the great challenges of the 21st Century. This website promotes the idea that the best way get people of their cars is to offer something that is comparatively better than private transportation. Implementing economic measures that let the true price of driving reveal itself, for example through congestion pricing, is one way to do this. Lifting transit up – improving transit and the communities that use transit – is another way to influence the switch to transit and will be the focal point of Switching Modes.
In suggesting ways to improve transit Switching Mode’s goal is to introduce new, innovative and practical ways to maximize the effectiveness of the finite amount of resources available. Multimodal terminals, transit-oriented developments (TODs), and innovative uses of IT will be key topics of discussion on this site. Additionally Switching Modes will occasionally discuss how transportation projects can be funded using Public and Private Partnerships (PPPs) and exploiting transportation and land use connections.
Welcome to the Public Press, an emerging concept for a noncommercial daily Web/print/broadcast collaborative news service. The idea is to put journalism first -- operating as a nonprofit organization that prioritizes public service over commerce.
One idea is to eliminate advertising altogether, creating a robustly independent specialized vehicle for serious news. A newspaper born in the 21st century could experiment with new forms of "reverse" publishing -- pulling commentary, blogs and alternative news perspectives into print dynamically.
This blog will attempt to chronicle the efforts in the Bay Area to improve public transit service and to embrace more sustainable growth patterns. The reason for choosing the name “Transbay” is hopefully not so mysterious. The still-evolving plans concerning the Transbay Terminal in downtown San Francisco are shaping up to be the single most important transit project in the Bay Area. The current bus terminal at 1st and Mission Streets is aged and depressing, but in time, it will be transformed into the “Grand Central Station of the West”, an important hub combining BART, Caltrain, Muni, and various regional bus agencies — hopefully even California High Speed Rail — all in one place. Capping it all off will be a new mixed use highrise district that may form the new focal point to the downtown area, in addition to containing the Bay Area’s tallest skyscrapers. Since this district is centered on the Transbay Terminal, these plans represent the most ambitious example of transit-oriented development in the Bay Area. (Please note, however, that this blog is no way affiliated with the Transbay Joint Powers Authority or any other agency working on the Transbay Terminal project.)
TVBB is a business news blog focused on the businesses large and small of the Tri-Valley and how they imapct the communities, whether good or bad.
Walking. Bicycling. Alternatives to Driving Everywhere. Social justice. Alternatives to suburban boredom and waste. And the infrastructure and technology needed to get there.
Walk Oakland Bike Oakland (WOBO), founded in 2006, is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to improving neighborhood livability, vitality, and sustainability by making Oakland a better place to walk and bike. We engage residents, workers, business owners, and commuters in education and advocacy for improving Oakland’s pedestrian and bicycling infrastructure.
