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What do OpenAI, skid row housing and a glassy fortress above the Pacific have in common? They all appear in my new piece on what 21st Century architecture says about 21st Century SF sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-… via San Francisco Chronicle

In his farewell column, John King offers a welcome respite from the San Francisco doom and gloom narrative. It's valuable to consider the ways the city has changed for the better since 2001, as well as all of the good stuff on the horizon. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/bui…

My (free!) farewell column after 23 years -- why I wish I'd been carrying a camera my first day on the gig, and why S.F.'s future is brighter than what the doomsters say: sfchronicle.com/sf/article/bui…

Not an easy path -- but the pieces are in place for The (next) City to emerge....

Fun from start to finish, at the very comfortable Yerba Buena Bar. One of the reasons I've loved journalism -- great coworkers!

It's official -- I'm now retired from San Francisco Chronicle, the daily that taught me journalism as a reader + let me tell stories myself for 32 years. The piece I felt most privileged to write? This tribute to David Perlman when he retired in 2017 at age 99: sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

Thanks, Josh! S.F. is far more intriguing than this ink-stained wretch, but what fun for me to scramble and try to catch up these past 23(!) years....

I won't! If I take anything big next year or beyond, S.F. will be the anchor.... even if the street grid IS a pale second to The Hub's 🤠

What a fun flattering way to stroll offstage after 23 years as Urban Design Critic at San Francisco Chronicle -- a long chat w/◥◤Kriston Capps about the job & the city & how lucky I have been. For @citylab: bloomberg.com/news/newslette… via @citylab

Nobody's better at celebrating the Bay Area's idiosyncrasies than Peter Hartlaub -- and this piece on the pleasure roll of SFO's old-school moving sidewalk is a particular delight: sfchronicle.com/totalsf/articl…

Who can resist those eyes?

The rare newsroom package where editors come up with the idea and .... it's a good one! 🤠 (P.S. (e)clip and save so that in 2074 you can gauge the Future SF projections for accuracy )

In the grand scheme of Trumpism's petty and defiantly wrong-headed approach to government, last month's swipe at the Presidio is a minor sin. But the idiocy deserves notice nonetheless -- which explains my first San Francisco Chronicle piece since retiring: sfchronicle.com/sf/article/san…

I avoid Elon Musk as best I can these days -- no easy task -- but I'm stopping by here to note that 1) my book "Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building + the Reinvention of American Cities" (W. W. Norton & Company) is now in paperback and 2) it's on the San Francisco Chronicle best-seller list!

(And while ... who better to talk about the changing Embarcadero than former mayor Art Agnos -- the person most response for tearing down the elevated freeway that marred S.F.'s waterfront until 1991? I cannot WAIT for this The Booksmith event, 7 p.m. 3/27!) booksmith.com/event/portal25

So, so, so well-deserved!

Five Pulitzer finalists in four years, best run in San Francisco Chronicle history, better than almost all in our peer set. Our subscribers deserve the best and we are working hard to deliver it. For them, we strive for more. sfchronicle.com/about/newsroom…