I used to enjoy San Francisco Cityscape, a blog about transit and urban planning issues. Then the site was downsized and lost a lot of its appeal. I happened to surf by this morning, as I was going through a list of links, and was excited to find it has been revamped again with maps, photos, links and occasional articles about local planning issues.
From San Francisco Cityscape’s Steve Boland:
This is version 5 of San Francisco Cityscape. Version 1 was basically a blog; version 2 added features including maps, photos and wallpaper, as well as comments; in version 3, the blog and comments were replaced by a forum, and the site was downsized; and version 4 was similar to this one. I mention all this because most who are familiar with this site are familiar with version 2. For five years, “the online journal of Bay Area urban design,” as I called it, was one of only a few websites addressing Northern California planning issues. Nowadays, I’m a practicing planner with little time to blog, and everyone, it seems, has their own Web 2.0 site (the one I’d most recommend to fans of the old Cityscape is Eric Chase’s Transbay Blog). So Cityscape is now essentially an outlet for two of my hobbies: making maps of Bay Area transit, and taking photos of the Bay Area’s built environment (and, occasionally, making maps or taking photos of other places). Still, we hope you’ll find something here to interest you.
Transbay Blog is an active blog about local transit issues. Recent posts include analysis of BART’s expansion plans, freeway revolts (past and potentially future) transit history and “Park(ing) Day.” It’s a great read!
