San Diego’s first Figment today (april 7th / right now) at Chicano Park in Barrio Logan.

photos by skyler on the fb event pg.

The Bike Bridge is ready for unveiling at Oakland’s new Uptown Art Park at 19th & Telegraph, across from the Fox Theater. Join us and the Black Rock Arts Foundation for a opening reception.

 “The Bike Bridge” is the result of a unique collaboration between Oakland youth and Berkeley artist Michael Christian. Twelve young women from different high schools in East and West Oakland first learned the skills needed to construct a large-scale sculpture by taking classes in welding and bicycle creation at The Crucible in West Oakland…

• Hosted by Mayor Jean Quan
• Nine Sculpture Art Pieces by Local Artists
• Art, Music, Tours, Food Trucks
• Take BART to 19th St. Station
• or Bike ride from West Oakland with Bikes4Life at 5:30
• Bike valet parking will be provided by Richmond Spokes.

(also First Friday / Art Murmur)

(Source: ebbc.org)

erinnn:

Tiny Tree Stolen from Tiny Park!

Mills End Park in Portland, Oregon is the smallest city park in the world. It measures two feet in diameter. The park’s only tree, pictured above, was stolen several days ago.

via OPB’s Ecotrope blog (06.03.13):

Indeed, said Mark Ross of Portland Department of Parks and Recreation, “someone yanked it out.”

But park technician Scott Gibson was there this afternoon with a small Douglas fir sapling – with a price tag of $3.25 – to replace it.

lawlomg, portland. 

you’d think this was the plot of a portlandia mystery sketch.

(via thisbigcity)

karlfun:

Topeka cyclists start new sport, save tennis courts
Bike polo matches set for 6 p.m. Sunday starting March 10

A grassroots group of bicycle enthusiasts looking for a new way to stretch their wheels inadvertently have saved a couple of Topeka tennis courts.

The courts at Washburn Park, which sit near S.W. 10th and Billard Avenue between S.W. MacVicar and Gage, were slated for demolition because no one was using them.

But recently a few cyclists started using the courts to play bike polo. Think polo on bikes rather than horses, blacktops rather than fields, with homemade mallets and orange cones for goals.

Rather than tearing down the courts, Shawnee County parks and recreation spent less than $200 to transform the dilapidated facility into the city’s first bike polo court….

Read more: the topeka capital journal, 09.03.13.

“new sport” haha

go Karl!

my mom and her new timbuk2 harriet bag at the little park (“patricia’s green”) on octavia in hayes valley, sf. 27.12.12.

(i love that seesaw sign in the background.)

In this Nov. 20, 2012 photo, Alex Rodriguez’ public art project titled “Whirling Wheels,” is seen against the midtown skyline along the Atlanta BeltLine in Atlanta.

Since an Atlanta nonprofit opened a 2.25-mile-long paved trail east of downtown last month, it has attracted a steady stream of joggers, dog-walkers and cyclists to take in spectacular views of the skyline as well as a slice of established neighborhoods that were once only seen by riding a freight train.

The Eastside Trail is the latest and most visible phase of the Atlanta BeltLine, an ambitious $2.8 billion plan to transform a 22-mile railroad corridor that encircles Atlanta into a network of parks, trails, public art, affordable homes and ultimately streetcars. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

sd u-t, 24.11.12.
via bikesd. 

One of the messages going into the Horton Plaza time capsule, to be opened in 2064, came from a fourth grader named Yaslin at Burbank Elementary School in Logan Heights.

Horton Plaza park expansion begins with crash. sd u-t, 29.11.12.

wow the union-tribune sucks more than i used to think. what a cruddy title. I was hoping to read that a car or truck crashed into the mall building.

map of Portland, OR’s Sunday Parkways September 30, 2012 ~ 11am-4pm (7 miles)

SEVEN miles!!! *jealous* *jealous even more of Bogotá’s 120km of open streets*
(probably gonna take seven more years to start the first Car[e]free Sundays in San Diego, 3 miles :P) 

maangg i wasn’t in PDX in time for any of the Sunday Parkways.

will definitely have to go on a Pacific NW trip again. maybe next may?

climateadaptation:

“At 24.5 acres, Millennium Park is the largest green roof in the world. It covers two parking garages, a railway, and an opera hall.”

Great photo essay at PBS on the green roofs of Chicago.

New public space in San Diego! 

something something Ruocco Park at Harbor Drive, thanks to Port of San Diego. (forgot the name on the sign).

still fenced in as of date photo taken (sat. 01.09.12), and sorry cruddy cameraphone photo (was on a short night time ride and didn’t bring a proper camera with me).

yes! public seating! something sorely missing in San Diego! (and still missing in the Gaslamp/Downtown/notbythewater)

(Source: citymaus)