SPUR is a nonprofit organization that focuses on housing, transportation, community planning, good government, environmental sustainability, regional planning, and economic development in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is also working on an international information-sharing network to help cities prepare for natural disasters.

Quoted: SPUR was formed in 1959 to fight for the revitalization of San Francisco as the Bay Area’s central city. It was given the charge of channeling growth away from suburban sprawl and back into the urban core. Throughout the 1960s, SPUR worked to build support for the land use, transportation, and investment strategies that could support center-oriented growth and urban economic vitality.

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