Publications

• Business Plan for the Sonoma County Climate and Innovation Center: Permit Sonoma 2024

• “Nine Ideas for a Connected San Francisco: How better transportation can link San Francisco neighborhoods to each other and the region.” SPUR Regional Strategy The Bigger Picture series, 2021.

• “Ten Ideas for Equitable Transportation in Oakland: Leveraging the next generation of transportation investment to better serve and connect Oakland.” SPUR Regional Strategy The Bigger Picture series, 2021.

•   “Five Ideas for Transforming the San Francisco Waterfront: How to protect communities from climate change, restore shoreline ecology and improve waterfront access – for everyone.” SPUR Regional Strategy The Bigger Picture series, 2021.

• “Seven Ideas for Downtown San José: Making the most of the big plans for new development, a major rail expansion and a project to re-envision public green space,” SPUR Regional Strategy The Bigger Picture series, 2021.

• “Scaling up: working beyond borders to overcome the challenges of today and tomorrow,” with Alicia John-Baptiste, SPUR; MarySue Barrett, MPC; and Tom Wright, RPA, published by AECOM, 2020

• “Re-imagining transit service in California’s Bay Area post-coronavirus,” with Ian Griffiths, Seamless Bay Area; and Jordan Karp and Veronica Siranosian, 2020

•  “Model Places: Envisioning a future Bay Area with room and opportunity for everyone”, SPUR, 2020

• “Paying it forward: Why Resilience is a Rising Priority”, with Caitlin Maclean, Milken Institute, AECOM published 2020

• “Cities matter more than ever as we battle the coronavirus pandemic”, published 2020

• “How Houston can reinvent itself and be bigger and better”, with Bill Fulton, The Kinder Institute, published by the Kinder Institute, 2020

• “Water has no boundaries”, 2019

• “Healing the urban/rural divide, one hour at a time”, published 2019

• “Right here, right now: the future is Mobility as a Service,” with Veronica Siranosian, AECOM published 2019

• “Houses in motion”, published 2018

• Under Stephen’s direction, AECOM worked with the Milken Institute to organize a series of four innovation labs to examine opportunities to make more effective use of public and private capital for financing resilience projects (2018-2019):

• In Los Angeles, we focused on Link Union Station. Report is available here. Short article is available here.

  • In Chicago, we focused on affordable housing. Report is available here. Short article is available here.

  • For the London City Region, we focused on complete communities. Report is available here. Short article is available here.

  • In New York, we focused on resilience in Lower Manhattan. Report is available here. Short article is available here.

• “Should I stay or should I go?” Article on flexible curbside management, AECOM published 2018

• “Binary to Brilliant: Building people-centric cities in the age of resilience,” published 2018

• “The Death and Life of Great American Infrastructure,” published 2018

• “Sydney on the global stage – 10 big moves,” with James Rosenwax, AECOM, AECOM published, 2018

• Sydney Manifesto, forward and contributor, AECOM publication, 2018

• Cities the Next Chapter, AECOM published, 2016

• “What’s Next in Making Cities Resilient,” AECOM publication, 2015