The Wiggle, the popular multi-block, flattest route between Duboce Park and the Panhandle, is a lovely journey through a largely residential part of the city and some neighborhood retail streets.
Read more about current and future improvements: sfbike.
Urbanized, a feature-length documentary by Gary Hustwit about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.
will finally get around to watching this sometime this week.
watch trailer here.
by the same guy who did the documentary Helvetica.
RUDI: Place Making 2012: Sharing innovation in urban life
Great read with some good examples!
In creating PLACEmaking, we aimed to put together a publication offering food for future thought: the creation of social cities, the use of Big Data for civic benefit, the articulation of economic and social value, and the development of tools and processes that enable everyone to participate in the design and shaping of place.
mon. 21.05.12. @inn at the park. nice views from the top floor.
Beth, an active transportation planner from SANDAG gave a presentation on the different kinds of cycle infrastructure. a grumpy old couple walked out early because the wife was disgusted. she was shaking her head throughout the entire presentation (until she left). said bicyclists are a pain in the butt! gonna make our streets like europe where they have people cycling everywhere??! can’t find parking! ROFLOL R U SRS first time I ever heard anyone say anything bad about europe re: cycling. The husband, though, was a little kinder and nodded at the slides that showed designs for safer street crossings. They’re in the middle of the above photo, in the purply shirt and the lady in beige facing away.
met a few people. found out i could volunteer to be part of the parking subcommittee where they figure out what to do with the $1-2 million the city’s collected from parking meters.
learned that Bankers Hill is one of the high priority cycle projects (or I re-remembered—it’s #4), overlapping from the City Bike Plan and SANDAG’s Regional Bike Plan. and that I could help give feedback and design for the project.
I guess i’ll stay in SD to at least help get this project implemented?
Cities in progress: Please donotdisturb is an exhibition featuring the work of FutureCityLab, an open-source initiative by a group of professionals and educators in order to think of a more sustainable urban development. The exhibition will be open from 22 May until 5 July at Aedes Am Pfefferberg in Berlin (Germany), hosting also workshops and discussions with experts to reflect on the future of our cities.To learn more: here.
Preliminary Concept Map of Little Italy, San Diego.
by group Five Tails (Brianne S., Dianne Y., Everardo L., Katie C., Jonathan M.) for USP 177: Urban Design Practicum. 22.05.12.
very multi-modal and ped-friendly. TOD, bridges, and more.
my group is bomb.
i should’ve taken the photo after we wrote the “presented by/for” line, though.
There is a whole 380pg PDF Model Design Manual for Living Streets, by Los Angeles County 2011.
How Many Agencies Does It Take to Make a Better LA Street?
la.curbed, 18.05.12.
Join your neighbors, or better yet bring a few with you. This event will start with a no host bar on the top floor of the Inn at the Park (formerly Park Manor Suites). Cocktails start at 6:00pm. The meeting will start at 6:30.
This month’s presentation will be given by SANDAG about proposed bicycle routes throughout Bankers Hill and Uptown. They are seeking input from residents. This is your time to speak out to your government representatives.
ah! so I definitely have to go.
you know that six-panel meme of professions that go: what your friends think you do, what your parents/society/etc. think you do..
urban planner: what you really do—go to meetings all day every day.
probably what I’ll be doing after I graduate.
