Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Chris Carlsson

The Copenhagen Moment

By Chris Carlsson | Nov 16, 2009 | 13 Comments

October 24, 2009, Bay Street in San Francisco: Riders traverse one potential future shoreline I’ll be leaving in ten days for Scandinavia, and will be sending reports to sf.streetsblog on the upcoming Climate Change conference (known as COP15) and the massive demonstrations that are expected to surround it. I’ve been to Copenhagen (my mother was […]

What We Don’t See: China Miéville’s ‘The City & The City’

By Chris Carlsson | Oct 27, 2009 | 2 Comments

Invisible people are all around us! Once you start thinking about it, what we don’t see is a much bigger category than what we do see. But what we don’t see ON PURPOSE is a really interesting category. When you add to the mix mobility, walking or riding or driving through city streets, not seeing […]

Nature’s Unsung Helper

By Chris Carlsson | Oct 8, 2009 | 9 Comments

Stephen O’Brien, gardener at Transbay Terminal since 1958. Stephen O’Brien has been coaxing an oasis out of a most unlikely environment for a long time: the small green patches at either end of the ground level Mission Street frontage of the Transbay Terminal. He started back in 1958, when the old Key System train tracks […]

A Cycling Congress in Mexico

By Chris Carlsson | Sep 23, 2009 | 7 Comments

Respect me: I am also traffic! Guadalajara, Mexico was host this month to the 2nd annual Congress of Cyclists in Mexico, a national gathering of bicyclist activists from around the country. I was invited to give a speech, which I somehow managed to do in Spanish (thanks to my media naranja for translating and coaching […]

San Francisco is Sinking!

By Chris Carlsson | Sep 17, 2009 | 11 Comments

UN Plaza, Market and 7th, the waters from the subterranean "Mighty Hayes River"!! Famously, we live on a crack in the earth. The San Andreas Fault gets most of our attention, followed not too far behind these days by the equally ominous Hayward Fault. A major earthquake on either of these could alter local landscapes […]

Gentrification, Livable Streets and Community Stability

By Chris Carlsson | Sep 9, 2009 | 8 Comments

Planters and a tree on Mission between 9th and 10th… Planktown Neighbors effort to beautify this central city area. Cities don’t stand still. Going back at least to WWII, U.S. cities have been radically altered again and again. Economic restructuring has been part of it, as urban areas have shed manufacturing in favor of the […]

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