Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Streetfilms

Journey Around Copenhagen’s Latest Bicycle Innovations

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Aug 5, 2014 | No Comments

Copenhagen just keeps finding fun ways to make it easier and more convenient to bike. On a tour with Mikael Collville-Andersen, CEO of Copenhagenize Design Co, I was able to tour some new innovations that have been implemented since I was last in Copenhagen four years ago. First: If you’ve seen my Streetfilm from the VeloCity Conference 2010 […]

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Buenos Aires: Building a People-Friendly City

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jul 30, 2014 | No Comments

Buenos Aires is fast becoming one of the most admired cities in the world when it comes to reinventing streets and transportation. Just over a year ago, the city launched MetroBus BRT (constructed in less than seven months) on 9 de Julio Avenue, which may be the world’s widest street. The transformation of four general […]

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Parking: Searching for the Good Life in the City

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jul 10, 2014 | No Comments

Streetfilms is proud to partner with ITDP to bring you this fun animation that’s sort of a cross between those catchy Schoolhouse Rock shorts and the credit sequence for a 1960s-style Saul Bass film. For too long cities tried to make parking a core feature of the urban fabric, only to discover that yielding to parking demand […]

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Hal Grades Your Bike Locking 2014

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | May 6, 2014 | No Comments

It’s hard to believe, but it’s been nearly five years since we last went traipsing around SoHo grading people’s bike locking with Hal Ruzal from Bicycle Habitat. So it was time for the next chapter with the mechanic who wears pink-purple socks, admonishing you about how to lock your wheels, frame, and seat correctly. The process is […]

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National Bike Summit 2014: United Spokes

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Mar 6, 2014 | No Comments

Usually I limit conference wrap-up videos to right around four minutes in length. But there were so many great (and funny!) moments at this year’s National Bike Summit, it was important to pack in all of the coverage we could grab. So sit back and enjoy many of the faces and fun that made this […]

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The Rise of Open Streets

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jan 7, 2014 | No Comments

Streetfilms has been documenting the open streets movement for over seven years, beginning with our landmark film in 2007 on Bogota’s Ciclovia, currently the most viewed Streetfilm of all time. The next year, Mike Lydon of The Street Plans Collaborative decided to get an open streets event going in Miami, which led to his research for The Open Streets […]

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