Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Pavement to Parks

Planning and Public Life

By Chris Carlsson | Mar 25, 2010 | 6 Comments

On Linden Alley the "Union Project" held a public fair last year, just one of dozens of ways San Franciscans are taking public roads for uses beyond merely housing private cars. San Franciscans, like residents of most big cities, are in a continuous process of reshaping public spaces. There are pilot programs for new ways […]

Newsom Christens New Mojo Cafe “Parklet,” Pledges More to Come

By Matthew Roth | Mar 18, 2010 | 11 Comments

DPW Director Ed Reiskin, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, and Mayor Gavin Newsom standing in what used to be two parking spaces. Photos: Matthew Roth With scores of people crowding the sidewalk and taking up one lane of traffic on Divisadero in front of Mojo Bicycle Cafe, Mayor Gavin Newsom, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi and city department heads […]

Eyes on the Street: Mojo Cafe Gets a Wider Sidewalk

By Matthew Roth | Mar 12, 2010 | 36 Comments

Photos: Matthew Roth With the official unveiling of the new Mojo Cafe "parklet" coming early next week, RG Architecture’s crew (with volunteers from the SF Great Streets Project) scrambled to complete the wooden sidewalk extension with enough time to work out any kinks before Mayor Gavin Newsom heralds the innovation with a crowd of media […]

Mayor Newsom Announces 12 New Pavement to Parks Projects for 2010

By Matthew Roth | Feb 25, 2010 | 8 Comments

Photo of Showplace Triangle Plaza, formerly a street and parking lot. Photo: Captin Nod San Francisco’s two newest Pavement to Parks plazas got an official launch ceremony this afternoon after several months of public use, along with a promise from the Mayor to build twelve more public spaces like them before the end of the […]

San Francisco Takes Parking Spaces for Trial Sidewalk Extensions

By Matthew Roth | Feb 16, 2010 | 49 Comments

A photo simulation of the new Pavement to Parks public space in what was once two parking spaces in front of the Mojo Bicycle Cafe in NOPA. Image: RG Architecture. With the success of San Francisco’s Pavement to Parks trial plazas, the city is about to unveil its newest plan to use its streets for […]

StreetUtopia North Beach

By Chris Carlsson | Jan 25, 2010 | 3 Comments

View southeast across North Beach from Russian Hill. StreetUtopia is a new community organizing effort centered in North Beach. Launched by Hank Hyena and Phil Millenbah at an inaugural event in early January, they drew upwards of 150 people to an empty historic storefront at 1 Columbus Avenue, where they showed Streetfilms, had a small […]

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