Archive for December, 2005

Cities don’t die…

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

A little off-topic: this past Sunday’s Chronicle included an article I wrote on cities and disaster. It only mentions transportation now and then, but it does have an overriding theme that’s very relevant.

San Francisco, 1906: no buildings, no people, but there are streets and lots.

The most fundamental and lasting things in cities are not […]