Walklet

We finally install it! The WALKLET is out on the SF Streets. A new public Park!!

The article from John King approves the City Program "Pavement to Parks" but also anticipates the Walklet´s success.

What else to say?... it will come next!

W.A.G.E, Working Artists and the Greater Economy

"Democracy in America: W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy"
Park Avenue Armory. 2008.

Democracy in America: W.A.G.E. from Creative Time on Vimeo.

This is a Manifesto of the Organization to make the point about the unpaid conditions that artists work in, even though Arts as helped the economic expansion of the last decade.

See the Website for more information and data:

http://www.wageforwork.com/

Z Line- Dream come true

(Project by artists Steve Lambert and Packard Jennings, 2007)

Some dreams, some ideas actually come true.


Why not fight for them!!?

Sidewalks growing "step by step"

Random breakfast on a Wednesday morning at the Atlas Café. February 10th 2010 exactly.
Found THE article that announces the cafes´colonization of the parking spaces along Columbus Avenue.

Still don´t how they are going to chose who is allowed to be out, how many of the restaurants will do it, or how is the City going to solve the Parking problem as well as the valet habit.

Anyway, I thought I had to inform about this new step. Moving forward!
More to come soon about other spaces in the City... (To be continued)


A bad Draft photo-montage of the idea of a "Wide Sidewalk Demonstration" for Renew SF and Café Puccini. June 2008

finally, PARK(ing) Day 2009 in North Beach

At the end, after years, and for me a year too late,
Park(ing) Day arrived to Columbus Avenue, North Beach.

The SFBC's Great Streets Project in partnership with RenewSF demonstrated the future of what an official "flexible parking space" will look like Cafe Roma (526 Columbus Avenue at Green) and Cafe Greco (423 Columbus Avenue at Green).
The locations of the occupied parking spots were mapped in the Community Map.
If you zoom in it´s crazy how the Upper Grant small businesses want to be visualized in the City´s commercial network. Go Upper Grant!

I found out about this too late in the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Facebook album.

I´m going to upload some of the pictures that come from their link to make it easier to see.

FLEX USE is finally here!!

This is the prefabricated device that they used.

Best Parking

This is an interesting website to study the rates for parking in the North Waterfront Area.

http://sanfrancisco.bestparking.com/index.php

I will have reflection later, but it seems to be a good study tool to detect the Parking issues in the neighborhood.

Beautiful Day!

Temporary Projects

I just found this link in the Rebar mail.
Despite the bad comments written below the article, I think that there is a real need for public and private space to transform the City faster and better (socially). It´s time for "growth" to focus on people, on social capital and not on taking capital from people.
Citizens need a break from seeing their cities being shaped by economic values. We need our Cities to be OUR Cities; to be spaces that we can live in, that we can occupy and stay in.
Fresh ideas and always welcome!
Hopefully soon we will get rid of the fish-faces that don´t see the changes coming!