India Basin: If the Big Five of Bayview Could See It Now, Part 2

March 10, 2024
Like their trailblazing predecessors, a new cadre of leaders won't rest until racial equality and economic justice deliver decent housing, education, job opportunities, and a healthy environment for this community.

India Basin: If the Big Five of Bayview Could See It Now, Part 1

Feburary 15, 2024
As India Basin Waterfront Park takes shape, Trust for Public Land is honoring the history and legacy of women who fought for justice here.

Share the Road

January 29, 2024
Op-ed: Shared mobility is the future of city streets. Here’s how to do it right.

Queens’ 34th Avenue Shows What Open Streets Can Do For People

April 14, 2023
Op-Ed. “The 34th Avenue Open Street shows how urban roads can be repurposed to make a more livable city. Even more, it is an example of how communities must lead these efforts so that streets reflect a common vision for what communities care about.”

Resilience Matters

2023
Contributors to the Island Press Short-form Program captured this hopeful, life-affirming work through a series of articles, op-eds, interviews, and other short-form writing that have now been collected in the latest edition of our e-book series Resilience Matters, available below at no cost thanks to our grant support from The Kresge Foundation and The JPB Foundation.

Ditch Cars for Open – and Equal – Streets

April 19, 2022
Car-centric streets are dangerous and perpetuate inequity, but the pandemic has pointed us to ways we can better use our public spaces.

From the Ground Up

2022
Named one of the best books of 2022 by the American Society of Landscape Architects and Planetizen

Living with Water Tours

May - April 2018
As members of the Bionic Team for the Bay Area Resilient by Design Challenge, the Studio worked with community- based advocacy groups, including Canal Alliance, Canal Welcome Center, and Resilient Shore, to create the Living with Water tours. This series of public walking, biking, and kayaking tours brought public awareness to the effects of sea level rise on a frontline community where segregation has concentrated its majority Latinx residents, many of whom live below the poverty line, in one of the lowest-lying areas of the San Francisco Bay. These events brought the public into conversation with scientists, designers, planners, government officials, businesses, and advocacy groups who are working to make the San Francisco Bay Area resilient to the climatic challenges ahead. The tours were offered free of charge to the general public, with meals provided. The Bionic Team earned the National ASLA Award of Excellence: Communications Award in 2019.

Field Lab

October 2016
As Designers-In-Residence at the Exploratorium, the Studio for Urban Projects created a Field Lab along the San Francisco waterfront to examine the effects of sea-level rise in the San Francisco Bay. Over the course of a month, the Field Lab was a venue for public discussions, hands-on workshops, a research library, and film screenings.