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John King is the San Francisco Chronicle’s urban design critic, a post he created in 2001. Before that his gigs at the paper included several years covering City Hall, which included a Paris foray to keep an eye on Willie Brown. In 2011, Heyday published his book Cityscapes: San Francisco and Its Buildings, based on a feature that like All Over Coffee appears in the Sunday Chronicle. John grew up in Walnut Creek and here’s a note of serendipitous trivia: his father worked for 20 years in the tower shown in Paul’s drawing (which Paul didn’t know when drawing it).