Brainstorm & Design Team Session #4 – “What if I-280 Came Down” Workshop. What kind of neighborhood do we want Mission Bay and Mission Creek to be? How can the designs and elements we choose today change the trajectory of future development of the area? How can we avoid cookie-cutter, formula retail, bland development without a story, without a history and without a place? Only one more week until our final presentation is due! 

Read more about the on-site “mobile workshops” of sustainability-in-action projects in Hong Kong. This is from last week’s Pacific Cities Sustainability Initiative Forum, a project I manage at the Asia Society of Northern California. Follow this link to read more about a tour of public space revitalization in Wanchai, a new high rise LEED Building (Hysan Place- pictured above), and how the Asia Society’s Hong Kong Center integrated old military infrastructure into a modern, cantilevered new building. 

A typical ugly San Francisco streetscape. Wasted space, pedestrian unfriendly (lots of curb cuts for cars to park over the sidewalk and bock access), no greenery, water impermeable, and simply hideous.