Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Chris Carlsson

Of Teamsters and Turtles, Plumbers and Progressives

By Chris Carlsson | May 4, 2009 | 17 Comments

Cultures meet over real work at Heart of the City Farmers’ Market Ever since the much-promoted alliance between “teamsters and turtles” at the WTO protests in Seattle in 1999, there’s been a renewed hope that the decades-long opposition between organized labor and environmentalists might be resolvable. The original Teamsters and turtles weren’t really in much […]

Another Model of Convivial Spaces

By Chris Carlsson | Apr 29, 2009 | 13 Comments

Crowds stretch down Glasgow, Scotland’s Buchanan Street pedestrian-only zone. In Glasgow, Scotland a few weeks ago I had the opportunity to reacquaint myself with a lovely feature of many European cities: broad central city streets converted to pedestrian only. In Glasgow it’s on Sauchiehall Street and makes a grand turn onto Buchanan, covering over 20 […]

Moralism vs. Utopianism–of Red Lights, Helmets, Bike Lanes and…

By Chris Carlsson | Apr 23, 2009 | 40 Comments

Flickr photo: Dear Knucklehead The Oregon Legislature has flushed an effort to bring the Idaho rolling stop law to that state. It’s a bit of a surprise, given both the simple and proven efficacy of allowing cyclists to make rolling stops, as well as Oregon’s big reputation as a bastion of cycling sanity. I’ve been […]

Over the Pond

By Chris Carlsson | Apr 13, 2009 | 5 Comments

⁞Cyclists disappear in bus lane while a pedestrian bolts across the street in South London. Editor’s note: While changes appear to be in the works in London on the public space realm (check out our latest Streetfilm posted today), Chris Carlsson got a slightly different take when he visited there last week. I’m on a […]

The Slow, Beautiful Road to Community on the Streets

By Chris Carlsson | Mar 25, 2009 | 1 Comment

Mona Caron contemplates her next stroke on her new mural at Jones and Golden Gate in San Francisco. Mona Caron is a visual troubadour of street life in San Francisco. Her murals have become increasingly famous in their gorgeous detail, portraying San Francisco’s romantic past juxtaposed to inspired visions of its future. Equally powerful is […]

Will We Ever Get Market Street Right?

By Chris Carlsson | Mar 23, 2009 | 9 Comments

“Rebuilding Market Street has become a civic obsession in San Francisco. The city’s main street has been torn up and rebuilt completely at least once in every generation since the Civil War.” —Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, July 5, 1988 Apparently it’s time again. San Francisco faces another massive effort to remake Market Street, trying […]

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