Aaron Donovan
Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.
Recent Posts
Do the Wiggle tour (Walking!)
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Celebrate the route bicyclists generally use to avoid hills–The Wiggle! A natural history of the Wiggle with plenty of social history thrown in. Ride up toward the Panhandle stopping to view the distant past, then come back down the wiggle through the recent century of bicycle culture.
Do the Wiggle tour (bike ride)
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Celebrate the route bicyclists generally use to avoid hills–The Wiggle! A natural history of the Wiggle with plenty of social history thrown in. Ride up toward the Panhandle stopping to view the distant past, then come back down the wiggle through the recent century of bicycle culture.
EBBC General Meeting: Sunday Streets, West Span Pathway & Bus Driver Education
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Join us for our next EBBC General Meeting. This month, you’ll hear about one of our latest projects: a collaboration with AC transit to train bus drivers and cyclists alike on safely sharing the road with each other. We’ll spend time flexing our advocacy muscles in preparation for the Bay Area Toll Authority Meeting meeting […]
Planning on The Edge: Conversations with North American Planning Directors
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A conversation with the Planning Directors of six of North America’s most innovative cities, including San Francisco, San Diego, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, and New York.
Walk San Francisco Annual Meeting
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“We’ll have Amit Ghosh, the Deputy Director of Planning from the MTA to tell us about plans for pedestrian improvements here in the City. We truly hope you’ll join us for this once-a-year event so that we can get reacquainted and talk about our objectives. Pizza and soft drinks will be served. “
Walk San Francisco Peak2Peak Walk
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“Want a challenge? Sign-up for this year’s Peak to Peak Walk, a 15-mile trek up and down SF’s highest peaks. Walkers get a unique view of SF’s skyline, stairways, paths, parks, and monuments – all while raising money for Walk SF’s vital pedestrian safety and advocacy work. Breakfast, lunch, snacks, raffle prizes, and a year’s […]
Taste of Fillmore -Fashion and Food Block Party on Fillmore Street
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"Fillmore Street celebrates the superb restaurants and boutiques in the neighborhood with the First Annual Taste of Fillmore. The public will be able to experience a fine selection of Fillmore Street shops with live cooking demonstrations, fashion shows and food and wine tastings. The entire block will be closed off to street traffic, turning the […]
Marcel Duchamp Chess Classic
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"24 foot chess board with live chess pieces."
EBBC Volunteer Night
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"Join us for EBBC volunteer night. This month we’ll be reaching out to folks to renew their memberships. Some volunteers will be doing phonebanking – if you have a cellphone with lots of minutes available, please bring it. EBBC volunteer night an easy way to wind down while enjoying the company of fellow bicyclists and […]
EBBC General Meeting -“The Geospatial Revolution and Bicycling”
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"The East Bay Bicycle Coalition’s General meeting, open to all, will begin with bicycle advocacy updates. From there, our guest speakers will lead an examination of the “Geospatial Revolution and Bicycling.” Our plans include how we can create a digital map-based discussion of various bikeways, document and report hazards to bicyclists, create layers depicting injury […]
Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities
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East Bay Bicycle Coalition and Institute of Urban and Regional Development/University of California Transportation Center are pleased to host author Jeff Mapes to discuss his book, Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities. The book explores the growing urban bike culture that is changing the look and feel of cities across the U.S. Not […]
BUA “The Beat of Urban Art” Book Signing
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Justin BUA, the artist who created one of the best-selling college dorm posters, “The DJ,”—and who is widely recognized as one of Hip-Hop’s most compelling visual artists of all time—has produced an unprecedented visual journey into the urban landscape of the past 30 years in his book THE BEAT OF URBAN ART, which he will […]