Blog Posts tagged: San Francisco
Parklets For People: Reconsidering the Parking Space as a Small Urban Park
By Jada Natalie Stevens In the 20th century, we built cities around a grid of car-accessible spaces. When roads were planned, on-street parking was incorporated into the outside lane, offering parking in close proximity to businesses, homes, and services. It... Continue reading »
Plaza stewardship: Taking care of our gathering places
By VPSN Plaza Stewardship committee When a plaza forms a part of urban space, who looks after it? Who oversees its upkeep, who decides what events take place there, and how are these decisions managed? Approaches to these questions fall... Continue reading »
Spaces beyond: blocked bike lanes in Washington, parklets in San Francisco
In Washington an interesting post by John Hendel on blocked bike lanes. Writing in the TBD Transportation Blog, Hendel reports on a conversation with Chief of Police Cathy Lanier in which the latter noted that Washington’s constabulary had quadrupled the quantity of... Continue reading »
