This plays out in every community, at every scale. What communities are other communities' futures and never pasts? California & San Francisco: All of their pr

This plays out in every community, at every scale. What communities are other communities' futures and never pasts? California & San Francisco: All of their problems are foreshadowing what is going to happen in other parts of the US; all of their strengths are also coming to other places. Even within San Francisco, is Valencia St the future or past of tony Chestnut St? When you think about bad shit happening, and then how we only seem capable of reactive, rather than proactive politics, seems obvious. Problems have to become catastrophic before anyone deals with them, and all the problems left are the ones are small, but growing.