San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie: Past Leaders Took the City ‘for Granted’

If you believe San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie, there’s no place better to live in the world than the city by the bay. At WIRED’s Big Interview event on Thursday—not so coincidentally held in San Francisco—the mayor told global editorial director Katie Drummond that he’s absolutely convinced that anyone looking to rag on the city doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

Of course, Lurie said, things could always be better. While he hailed positive changes San Francisco has made since he took office 11 months ago, like more office space being filled in the downtown area and a decrease in crime, he acknowledged that some of that might have come in the wake of companies’ return to office policies and the AI boom. Still, Lurie said, if you ask San Francisco residents, 62 percent say that their city is headed ...