Arrol Gellner writes today on Inman News about America’s fascination with their cars and the lack of city planning that could do something about it… We Americans are a puzzling bunch. We travel to Italy, France or Spain and come back smitten with the charmingly walk-able streets, close-knit houses, and humanly scaled public spaces we find there. Yet we seldom stop to wonder why our own built environment is so utterly lacking in those traits. It’s no mystery: In spite …

File this one under “what not to do when advertising real estate”, I guess… The Potrero Hill blog takes a local real estate company to task for some misrepresentations of the neighborhood in a recent mailer, I appreciate Hill & Co. promoting the hood, but c’mon guys let’s get some facts straight. The Neighborhood House and Community Garden aren’t exactly businesses, and the locals call the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House ‘the NABE’. I’m wondering if the residents of Bernal Heights …

From CurbedSF, And even though we probably will never go there, we got all steamed and also wanted to know “what the hell is going on with the library-turned-condos-turned-supermarket that they’ve been building at the corner of Diamond and Bosworth for, like, the last six years (since the last one burned down)? The structure is complete, and it looks like they are doing finishing work on it now, but so far all we see is a sign to support the …

Realtyblogging.com featured this very site today… Matt’s blog is a great example of how you really don’t need a bunch of fancy graphics and web knowledge to have a great blog. SFHomeblog uses a stock, free template from blogger.com. Matt took the extra step of FTP to his personal website, and has added a few key links, but that’s it. SFHomeblog’s popularity is due only to Matt’s great writing, a goal every blogger should aspire to. Thanks guys! And someday …

From SFGate today, San Francisco public school teachers overwhelmingly approved a walkout Wednesday night in the first strike vote taken by the group in 27 years. The United Educators of San Francisco — which represents 6,000 teachers and aides working in the San Francisco Unified School District — voted 2,203 to 317 to strike. The union has been working without a contract since July 2004. The teachers and aides last had a pay raise in the 2002-03 academic year. Interim …