David Prowler is a planning and development consultant in San Francisco and writer (www.prowler.org).  He lectures in the Urban Studies Program at Stanford University, served as a San Francisco Planning Commissioner and Director of the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development.  He wrote A Telegram From Marcel Duchamp and a series of catalogues of collections of disposable eating utensils. Prowler, Inc’s clients have included the San Francisco Zen Center, SF Museum of Modern Art, One Rincon, the Carl Jung Institute of San Francisco, and a raft of public agencies.  He is President of the Board of Creativity Explored, 2017’s winner of the Bay Guardian Readers’ Poll Best San Francisco Non-Profit.

Here’s what John King, Urban Design columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle says:

“David Prowler is one of the few people I know whose professional focus is the shaping of San Francisco’s landscape and who hasn’t succumbed to cynicism. He loves the city, and he loves trying to make things happen that in his view make sense.”