Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Sunday Streets

Dates and Locations For 2010 San Francisco Sunday Streets Announced

By Matthew Roth | Dec 19, 2009 | 11 Comments

Photos: Matthew Roth San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has announced the dates and locations for nine Sunday Streets events for 2010, starting on March 14th along the Embarcadero and finishing October 24th around Civic Center. Building off the tremendous success of the events in 2009, Mayor Newsom announced the events will expand to new communities […]

A Vision For Transforming San Francisco’s “Unaccepted Streets”

By Matthew Roth | Sep 24, 2009 | 7 Comments

A proposed design for an unaccepted street, from Local Code, courtesy Nicholas de Monchaux Throughout San Francisco’s history, from the early street grid to the more recent expansion of freeways, slivers of land that don’t fit into the master plans of architects and designers have been cast aside, lumped into a category the Department of […]

Streetfilms: The Final Sunday Streets of 2009

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 8, 2009 | 5 Comments

Despite a blanket of fog, the last Sunday Streets of 2009 was, from all accounts, a smashing success, one of the most popular so far, with thousands of people enjoying four activity-filled hours of pristine car-free space through Golden Gate Park and the Great Highway. John Hamilton, who produced a very inspiring Streetfilm on San […]

Sunday Streets to Become Permanent in San Francisco

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 4, 2009 | 4 Comments

Photo: Bryan Goebel On the weekend eve of the final Sunday Streets of the year, Mayor Gavin Newsom announced that the seasonal events creating wide swaths of car-free space will become permanent in San Francisco. “This Sunday’s event is the finale for 2009, but Sunday Streets will be back in 2010 with more routes, longer […]

A Public Space Renaissance in San Francisco

By Chris Carlsson | Sep 2, 2009 | 21 Comments

Crowds gather on eastern slope of Dolores Park near 18th. One of the ongoing dilemmas for landscape architects, city planners, and yes, even transit geeks, is the chicken-and-egg question regarding public space. If you build it, will they come? Is there a “public” demanding wider sidewalks, public squares and plazas, pocket parks, and depaving, and […]

Harnessing the Popularity of Sunday Streets to Promote It

By Michael Rhodes | Aug 26, 2009 | No Comments

Photo: Michael Rhodes The final Sunday Streets for 2009 has been officially announced, complete with a proclamation from Board of Supervisors President David Chiu declaring September 6, 2009, the day of the event, "Sunday Streets Celebration Day in San Francisco." At a press conference announcing the event yesterday, Rec and Park General Manager Phil Ginsberg […]

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