Theory In Action: Smart Growth Case
Studies in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the
nation. April
2000, 56 pages. This inventory documents more than fifty smart
growth initiatives that address compact development, urban
revitalization, affordable housing, open space protection and
related topics at the local, regional, and state level. Case
studies are included from the San Francisco Bay Area and across
the nation. Many of the initiatives were in place long before
smart growth became a movement; others were developed more
recently. All provide lessons that can help communities steer
towards smart growth.
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Silicon Valley
: Projections 2000 September 2000, 40 pages.
Silicon Valley's phenomenal growth is both an indication of
its success and one of its greatest challenges. This report
provides population and employment forecasts through 2010 and
discussions of future challenges and opportunites
for action. Prepared for the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group.
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Hometown Blues, May 1999, 29 minute video.
Documentary addressing the San
Francisco Bay Area's housing and growth crisis. Explores quality of life issues, affordable housing, transportation, the environment -- that affect Bay Area residents and poses possible solutions.
CAT. NO. P99010PLN
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Trends
& Challenges: Facing the Future of the San Francisco Bay Area
April 1998, 35 pages. This report lays out the long-term implications
of the Bay Area's growth in clear, readable language. It also
suggests strategies that local governments, community groups and
business associations could pursue, individually or in concert
with others, to improve the quality of life for all of the region's
inhabitants.
CAT. NO. P98003PRO
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Assessing the Future: A Sensitivity
Analysis of Highway and Road Improvements on Growth in the San
Francisco Bay Area, April 1991, 46 pages. This paper
presents the structure of the ABAG forecasting system and evaluates
the impacts of the Metropolitan Transportation Commissions 1989
Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). The analysis suggests
that land use policy is the primary factor in the location of
housing and jobs in the Bay Area. It also suggests that highway
and road improvements per se do not cause urban sprawl. View
the Table of Contents
CAT. NO. P91006PRO
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Changing Patterns in Retail Trade: Taxable
Sales in the San Francisco Bay Area, January 1995,
77 pages. Taxable retail sales in the nine counties of the San
Francisco Bay Area is analyzed for the 1970-1993 period. Data
are presented for the region and each of the nine counties. View the Table of Contents
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Economic Competitiveness: Comparing
San Francisco Bay Area Exports and Imports with Major Competing
Regions, May 1995, 74 pages. This paper compares the
Bay Area to other metropolitan areas inside and outside of California.
View the Table of Contents and
the Full Text of the Document
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Increasing Transit Ridership and the Efficiency
of Land Use While Maximizing Economic Potential, October
1990, 47 pages. An analysis of an alternate growth scenario for the
region which increases housing production near transit stations.
CAT. NO. P90006PRO
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Interdependence: The Changing Dynamic Between Cities and
Suburbs. November 1996, 62 pages. Should a resident of San Mateo
care about community vitality in Oakland? Should a resident of Fremont pay
attention to the success of tourism in the Napa and Sonoma Valleys? More
broadly, what is the nature of the relationship between cities and suburbs
within metropolitan regions? Does the economic prosperity of the region
ultimately depend on the economic and social health of older central cities?
These questions are at the heart of this ABAG study which explores the changing
relationship between cities and suburbs in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Local Development Policy Survey,
October 1994, 150 pages. An analysis of vacant and redevelopable
land available for development in the nine-county San Francisco
Bay Area. Report includes acreage data in a separate table for
each city and county. View the Table of Contents
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Primary Central Business Districts in the
San Francisco Bay Area: Spatial and Structural Shifts 1981-1988,
February 1991. Analyzes employment and establishment growth in the Bay
Area's central business districts.
CAT. NO. P91003PRO
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Profile of Services and Retail and Wholesale
Trade in the San Francisco Region: 1977, 1982 and 1987, September
1991. Reports and analyzes sales/receipts, number of establishments,
employment, payroll statistics for the nine counties of the San Francisco
Bay Area of the last three economic censuses. Includes detail kind of
business and county and primary central business districts.
CAT. NO. P91011PRO
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Residential Demand and Development Potential
in the San Francisco Bay Area, January 1991, 28 pages. Analyzes
the need for more housing in the region. Discusses various measures
of residential demand, housing production, affordability, options for
accommodating additional residential growth and regional implications
of continuing current housing production trends.
CAT. NO. P91001PLN
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Residential Density Patterns in the San Francisco
Bay Area: Historical, Recent and Planned, April 1991, 37
pages. Provides an expanded picture of residential development density
patterns for Bay Area counties and 27 subregional study areas. Also
discusses policy issues and identifies shifts in the distribution of
residential development.
CAT. NO. P91002PLN
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Trends in Income: An Analysis of Income
Tax Returns for San Francisco Bay Area Counties, 1978-1991,
October 1994, 77 pages. This report examines California income
tax returns for each Bay Area county and describes how the distribution
of incomes has changed. View the Table of Contents
CAT. NO. P94009PRO
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