Transbay Transformation: San Francisco's New Downtown

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Understand how dramatic urban change, including at the skyline level, can become both politically possible and popular in a city with a famous history of highly-contentious development politics.
• See how ambitious urban design concepts can be realized through a variety of regulatory and financial mechanisms across areas featuring both public and private land.
• Appreciate the challenges of translating visionary public realm transformations into built reality in a dense city center, including working with nascent community organizations to create neighborhoods street life from scratch.

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This special walking tour is led by the unquestionable authorities on downtown San Francisco's 21st-century transformation, guided by the principal planners from the San Francisco Planning Department and Redevelopment Agency who have led the planning and implementation of Transbay and Rincon Hill for over 15 years. Covering two decades of planning, politics, design and development, this tour visits the rising new transit-oriented downtown neighborhood, providing the full stories behind the Bay Area's tallest towers, highest-density design and development challenges, and its green streets and innovative parks interwoven with the multibillion dollar Transit Center.

Session Speakers

Andrew Robinson
Mobile Workshop Guide
The East Cut Community Benefit District

Jose Campos
Mobile Workshop Guide
Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA

Joshua Switzky
Speaker
San Francisco Planning Department
San Francisco, CA

Paul Chasan
Mobile Workshop Guide
San Francisco Planning Department
San Francisco, CA