If you happen to consider San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie, there’s no place higher to dwell on the planet than The Metropolis by the Bay. At WIRED’s Massive Interview occasion on Thursday—not so coincidentally held in San Francisco—the mayor advised world editorial director Katie Drummond that he’s completely satisfied that anybody seeking to rag on the town doesn’t know what they’re speaking about.
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After all, Lurie stated, issues might at all times be higher. Whereas he hailed optimistic adjustments that San Francisco has made since he took workplace 11 months in the past, like extra workplace area being crammed within the downtown space and a lower in crime, he acknowledged that a few of which may have come within the wake of firms’ return-to-office insurance policies and the AI increase. Nonetheless, Lurie stated, when you ask San Francisco residents, 62 % say that their metropolis is headed in the appropriate path, in comparison with simply 25 % a 12 months in the past.
Lurie stated a part of what’s going to assist preserve San Francisco heading in the right direction is a dedication from residents. Previous leaders, he stated, “took San Francisco as a right,” pondering “we might simply proceed on, and our success would proceed as properly.” To make San Francisco resilient, capable of climate financial adjustments and tech booms and busts, Lurie stated, its leaders need to be “relentless in combating for [their] metropolis, standing up for [their] metropolis, and welcoming individuals, saying, ‘We wish you right here, and we will create the circumstances to your success.’”
