I discovered this article in the NY times recently about research that shows a link between obesity and the age (and walkability) of various neighborhoods in Salt Lake City.
The real challenge will be figuring out how to make the car-centered cities of the last 50 years more dense without tearing everything down and starting over. [...]
The NY Times reported the winner of the CityRacks Design Competition in New York today, a contest to find the next generation design for all the city’s sidewalk bike racks. The winning design, called “Hoop” is by Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve from Copenhagen.
If only we could get the Bike Plan Injunction lifted [...]
Sara Mae Martens and I spent part of the day yesterday moving hardwood flooring from our Tassafaronga job site to a storage unit in San Francisco. One of the green strategies involved in renovating the disused pasta factory on that site was to reuse old building materials that are being removed. We wanted to get [...]
Perhaps you have watched Extreme Makeover: Home Edition on ABC? It’s a reality show where a family wins a contest to have their home “made over”, and it usually features a struggling family with a special-needs child living in a less-than-ideal home.
While I certainly don’t have a problem with helping out families facing tough times, [...]
I missed the Peak to Peak walk last weekend because I was on a boat in the Pacific with SF Bay Whale Watching. The biggest problem with whale watching is that the whales live in the water, which makes them hard to see. Luckily, we did encounter several humpback whales and watched them surface and [...]
That was a saying I first heard from my professor Susan Ubbelhode during graduate school at UC Berkeley. It is very true that many architects have held prejudices against “green” architecture for years, fearing that people would associate them with houses built out of used tires and structures that look like failed science fair entries. [...]
So you want to go to the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival on your bike. You ride over to the park at around 1pm and you are greeted with the following scene:
Where do you lock your bike? To a tree, of course:
The lesson? Always make sure you have way more bike parking than you think you’ll [...]
