by Jed Horne on Mar 30, 2009
Looks like we’re finally earning out keep as the capital of the Left Coast. New York has one-upped us for too long on reappropriating unused asphalt (thanks to that pesky Janette Sadik-Khan), but San Francisco just unveiled plans for its first street pedstrianization project, at the corner of 17th and Market. The opinion among my [...]
by Brendan Nee on Jan 16, 2009
We here at Blinktag use our bikes as the preferred mode of transport (we’ve even got a company tandem thanks to Preston). Aside from the hills, San Francisco is very conducive to cycling given its reasonable climate, dense layout and culture that embraces all things alternative, including modes. However, for over 2.5 years the city’s [...]
by Jed Horne on Jan 15, 2009
Brendan and I were just cited in the latest edition of the neoAmericanist (if it’s a planning magazine, you’ve got to have the lower-case n) for our work documenting post-Katrina planning in New Orleans. If they had bothered to call us up, though, we probably would have warned them against using crappy flash rollovers that [...]
by Jed Horne on Jan 13, 2009
I recently came across an interesting article in New Orleans’ Times-Picayune newspaper about the possibility of an urban rennaissance on the now-derelict Tulane Avenue corridor. Well, maybe it’s not so interesting to most people, but it just so happens that Brendan and I spent a good chunk of our time working in the surrounding neighborhood [...]