tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85743632024-03-07T22:42:24.739-05:00Bird to the Northmostly sensible thoughts on public spaceShin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.comBlogger716125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-38033403234663075832014-01-07T11:28:00.001-05:002014-01-07T11:28:07.834-05:00Updates updates<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/4598db71b77a6a58741665c8a95def61/tumblr_mx52kuZiYj1qdf5rdo1_1280.jpg">
<br><i>A piece by <a href="http://gregoryeuclide.tumblr.com/">Gregory Euclide</a></i>
<p>A friend sent over an old interview of me with the note, "nearly ten years ago!"</p>
<p>In immediate response, i.e. what the hell have I been doing for the last 10 years?, I wasn't entirely positive. My stomach turned. Am I where I thought I would be by now? As I thought more about it, not measuring by signposts of achievement and accolades, but by the people and characters I've met, the experiences we shared, the relationships with them, and the many beautiful, serendipitous, and funny stories that punctuated the last (nearly) 10 years, I started to feel better. Maybe even a little proud. It's been rich. There, I said it.</p>
<p>In that vein, I thought it would be good to update about what's going on in this space specifically. No longer working in research and writing for a <a href="http://www.ceip.org">think tank</a>, I've since joined a <a href="http://www.transitcenter.org">reinvented non-profit</a> that will support innovations in cities and transportation. It's a good convergence of past experiences, applied differently. This space is always reserved for extended thoughts on such things, and now that the crux of my job isn't writing, I hope to write more here and elsewhere.</p>
<p>A note about how my thinking about public space has evolved and what will likely be here: This started out as a place to critique and assess public spaces, to hone an understanding of what works. Perhaps first through design and by how much public spaces prioritize people. As my understanding developed (still a work in progress), process and engagement were folded in. What does it mean to be public anyway? This became especially integral when looking at how spaces were developed (or not). Process rose in importance. </p>
<p>Funding resources, the mechanics for distributing funds, and the rules that governed the what could be done and what couldn't be were also added. Yup, I got into policy. For transportation. With cities as the backdrop and meeting people's aspirations as the goal.</p>
<p>(A funny side story: when I was contemplating joining <a href="http://www.transalt.org">Transportation Alternatives</a> staff several years ago, I asked myself why they would want to hire me. I was not an advocate (which council member?), nor a grassroots campaigner (shy), nor a transportation expert (what?). I spent a weekend mulling it over, and by chance read through some posts archived here... and realized that when I wrote about the public spaces in the city I loved - New York - I typically wrote about its streets. How people used them in such innovative ways, the sidewalks, how biking made so much sense (never mind that I didn't ride a bike back then), and the too many cars. Public space was the lens, but the street was the expression. Satisfied, I joined T.A. - one of the best decisions I ever made.)</p>
<p>Of course, words are only as good as acts, so I love paying attention to the organizations, the people who led them, the make-up of their staff, and their culture and character. I found that I also applied this thinking to the internal development of organizations I was lucky enough to work for. I like to try to create conditions where people can be happy and succeed beyond their imaginations. I know, lofty! Ha. But I guess I've been lucky to see it happen enough times that I know, without a doubt, that this kind of experience can be truly transformative, which sends more effective changemakers out into the world.</p>
<p>All of this led to an informal theory about how does change actually happens? Top down and bottom up, it's a dynamic mix of people, policy and rules, process (and politics), and practice. So I guess there will be a smattering of all these things here - such as changing practice and applying research to design - as they relate to our collective work.</p>
<i><p>If you're curious, <a href="http://northbird.blogspot.com/2011/05/about-this-blog.html">the last update</a>.</p></i>Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-51325107350226999262014-01-06T12:08:00.000-05:002014-01-06T12:08:23.646-05:00Why art?<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEictJPqc3VHwPctkpL4rfO3no6AXraAnqlFMkPKYxW8iUBQle6N1SpVKU1t3RZMogqg5xskAjdXJicWpfH_pE7TiG_kpXrLEEjSABNb-XJ6fwFlp5xGT-5PKyWIXO8LVATtPevPZQ/s800/EverElizabethposter,forlikeever">
<i><p> This one's been bouncing around for like ever, but it's still good. by <a href="http://www.super-rural.com/">Super Rural</a>. </p></i>
<p>I started a <a href="http://shinpei.tumblr.com">tumblr</a> a couple years ago, as way to collect art, ideas, and images I loved looking at over and over again in a little bit more curated and journalistic fashion than the way pinterest allows (though I've got <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/stsay/">one</a> of those too.) Given what I was doing at the time, i.e. so-called hard-hitting policy analysis on climate change, urbanization, and transportation, I felt a little guilty about it, but also knew that I needed some space to dream and think about other things.
<p>Last September, I was invited to speak at a <a href="http://www.civitas.eu/content/civitas-forum-conference-2013">European Commission conference</a> on innovations in sustainable urban mobility. Well, my talk was on something that sounded far less innovative - <a href="http://carnegieendowment.org/2013/07/31/rethinking-urban-mobility-sustainable-policies-for-century-of-city/ggzk">national policies on sustainable urban transportation</a>. I have a true aversion to dry, text-only presentations on abstract concepts - these happen much too often in policy discussions and they're a real snooze.</p>
<p>But I was at a loss - I had some photos ready to go, but what could I use as images for abstract concepts? I'm not a graphic designer, so I couldn't create what I wanted, nor were there any obvious photographs that could be taken to illustrate what I needed to communicate. I started to dig around and thought of my silly tumblr which had so many images I loved for some unknown reason.</p>
<p>The reason, as it turned out, was connected to whatever it was I was ruminating about in my conscious mind and daily work. And the presentation basically made itself because I had been storing away all these ideas, only they were expressed in such a different way on this other forum. If you're curious, you can see the presentation <a href="http://www.civitas.eu/sites/default/files/documents/CIV_PLUS_II_Shin-pei%20Tsay_Rethinking%20Urban%20Mobility.pdf">here</a>. The European Commission was so pleased that it wasn't another text-only presentation - and me too. Thank you to all the artists for being in the world and helping us see and experience what we can't articulate ourselves. (I know you probably didn't see your art applied in these ways - I hope you're OK with it!)</p>Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-54974714116521589512013-03-14T16:29:00.003-04:002013-03-14T16:29:38.780-04:00UpdatesSomeone at a place I <a href="http://places.designobserver.com/">very much admire</a> brought up Bird to the North today. Humbled obviously, but hugely embarrassed too since it is such so skeletal around here these days. We traded a couple of stories about blogging and how much things have changed. Which reminded me too of how much things have changed in our cities as well, especially as I went back over some old posts.
A real example is the transformation that is <a href="http://northbird.blogspot.com/2007/06/willoughby-pedestrian-plaza.html">Willoughby Plaza</a>. Here it is in January 2007, when it was first temporarily pedestrianized:
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<a href="http://farm1.staticflickr.com/165/373372910_380f7edfdf_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://farm1.staticflickr.com/165/373372910_380f7edfdf_o.jpg" /></a></p>
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And here is the *permanent* place in six years later in 2013! Even in the dark, it looks dignified. Happiness.
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<a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8095/8558341008_480bb577ec_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8095/8558341008_480bb577ec_z.jpg" /></a></p>Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-69085947188158348322013-01-30T15:20:00.003-05:002013-01-30T15:20:57.366-05:00So proud of Atlantic Avenue BID & PlanningCorps<img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8206/8226504465_1fcc63aa34_z.jpg">
<p>Can't help it, I'm proud of PlanningCorps helping Atlantic Avenue BID with its NYC Small Business Services BID Challenge grant submission. AABID won the full award amount, $75,000! Read more about it <a href="http://planningcorps.org/2013/01/impact-for-atlantic-avenue-bid/" target="_blank">here</a>.
Since the BID only launched in April 2012, and had a staff of one, the executive director, I felt like this project really made the point that small community-based organizations benefit from the collective capacity of volunteer planners. The snap above is from the awards ceremony that I was thrilled to attend back in November 2012, where Josef Szende accepted the award from Deputy Mayor Robert Steele and NYC SBS Commissioner Rob Walsh. Kudos! </p>Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-56406147431602040822012-12-07T17:47:00.000-05:002012-12-07T17:47:57.777-05:00The Future of the American City<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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For part of <i><a href="http://www.spontaneousinterventions.org/">Spontaneous Interventions</a></i>, the U.S. Pavilion's exhibition at this year's <a href="http://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/">Venice Biennale for Architecture</a>, I was asked to participate in the exhibition film. The exercise involved writing a short essay answering the question, "what do you think will be the future city of America," and I was asked to address specifically infrastructure, planning, etc. The conceit was that individuals in the film would read their essay as though addressing fellow Americans... but I think everyone decided that this might be a little boring to watch.<br />
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Since we never had to read our statements, I thought it would be fun to share the essay here. It's not based on research, it's just an outline of thoughts I've been having over the last few years working on small-scale interventions with community groups via PlanningCorps and tackling large-scale - national, state, or city-wide - policy with my day jobs. When I was working on it, I thought, it's not futuristic-sounding enough! But I love humanity and its foibles too much (the <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/12/01/nassim_nicholas_taleb_the_future_will_not_be_cool/">future may not be so futuristic</a> anyway.) Here it is:<br />
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<b>Future of the American City</b></blockquote>
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I am disarmed by a city’s wonderfully messy diversity. I
love how cities permit people of different stripes to share space and still
lead their own lives. Watching the ordered chaos unfold every day on the streets
and public spaces of my city, it seems that cities allow us to express some of
our best qualities. It also seems that we need to be at our best given the
environmental and economic challenges of the 21<sup>st</sup> century. How can cities
sustain this priceless social dynamic? </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Cities that withstand the ages are the ones that evolve by protecting
existing infrastructure while absorbing ongoing shifts in population, economy,
and the environment. As cities grow and age, infrastructure inevitably becomes
more brittle. Infrastructure could encompass everything from the physical such
as roads, parks, water systems and energy systems to the political like the
rule of law and the social found in culture and community. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The government and the governed should collaborate on the
stewardship of the city to counter brittleness. Both sides should embrace
change and diversity of thought, and indulge in experiments and interventions.
We will need to accept an accelerated rate of change given our global
constraints. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Moving forward, collaborative governance will enable change and
quickly. Emerging tools like open-source mapping and approaches like
participatory budgeting deepen civic engagement. A stable of new tools are
being developed and it will be up to us to apply them. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
In American cities of the future, imagine the many ways the
public and its government can work together to solve problems. Government still
provides leadership to uphold the law, but it also facilitates public
participation and develops societal priorities with the public through open
data. The public shares the responsibility for participating and holds some
accountability for decisions. Instead of wondering about a policy’s impact,
there are direct links between government and citizens for input and dialogue.
Citizens suggest policies or solutions more readily, test and assess them in
real-time in the city, and move them up the decision-making ladder. Cities in
the United States especially benefit from the American entrepreneurial
instinct. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The results are that change becomes easier to accept,
infrastructure gains flexibility, and cities withstand the challenges of our
time. Might environmental concerns be wholly integrated with economic decisions
– finally – because fuller public participation imparts a stronger appreciation
for the global commons? Ultimately, empowering more people to have a hand in
crafting their cities would not only ensure that cities withstand the
challenges of the century, it would also ensure that the messy diversity of the
social life of our cities endures. </blockquote>
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<br />Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-63900523686564805412012-11-02T16:55:00.000-04:002012-11-02T16:56:45.805-04:00Honesty<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PyohW9rYEKc" width="560"></iframe><br />
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I'm fine. I was supposed to fly to Mexico City on Monday morning for a strategy session with multiple organizations to advise the incoming presidential administration in Mexico and the new mayoral administration of the Distrito Federal Mexico on urban transport policy. My hosts sent over instructions that they would arrive by bicycle at my hotel early Tuesday morning and that I was to make sure not to eat breakfast. A lovely surprise awaited me.<br />
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Instead my flight was canceled on Sunday afternoon, and after a long lunch with a friend in a half-empty though typically popular restaurant that day (where was everyone? like birds before a storm) I biked over to DUMBO to pick up my laptop, not knowing what to do next. I had cleared out my fridge in anticipation of being away for the week, but hearing about the long lines made me avoid the stores. It wasn't the waiting, it was the nervousness I wanted to ignore. I spent the night (or would it be two?) with close friends and their kids. We listened to the news, played games with the kids, cooked, and I learned a few guitar chords. We only bothered pulling out the flashlights when the storm hit full force on Monday night.<br />
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It was a couple of noisy, stormy nights, but our neighborhood is fine, outside of a few downed trees and store awnings. Though it's on the waterfront, it's on a bluff that overlooks the East River and the electricity stayed on. There were glorious trick-or-treaters on Wednesday, and the annual Halloween spectacular on Garden Place still got a good run.<br />
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Colleagues have urged me to seize the moment in the aftermath of Sandy. With the storm, climate change and cities became mainstream. This is your moment! What do you think, they keep asking me. Cities and climate change have become front and center. This is it!<br />
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I don't know what to think, and you know what, I don't want to revel in this moment.<br />
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News about the impact of the storm has given me great pause, each day a little dip deeper into harsh reality. Though the majority of us are fine, walking around lower Manhattan without power is apocalyptic. No traffic lights, no street lights, and small businesses operating on slim margins are closed. I picked up brick oven pizza the other day for dinner with friends, and went to the neighborhood bar each night to surround myself with people, and there are people without water to drink. I get around easily by bicycle while others wait in long lines for the shuttle buses. I don't even need to climb the stairs in my building because my elevator is still working. Meanwhile, seniors in Brighton Beach can't flush their toilets, are running out of food, and do not even have a way of sending out a SOS flare. (Their council member is MIA, in case anyone has any information.)<br />
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All the reports on climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience, etc, could not have possibly predicted the very localized nature of the aftermath of extreme storms, and the very human face of its impact. It's literally block by block, street by street, neighbor by neighbor. Like the lights being turned on in an empty house, room by room. It feels that even organizing help is taking everyone in the city a few days, as little needs are discovered and disconnects patched over. I sent out an unsteady stream of texts over the last few days, a slowly dawning realization of who lived where and who might be without power or water or a bed or perhaps even without cell service.<br />
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Luckily, New Yorkers are used to sharing, especially with strangers and in times of need. And thankfully we have overlapping networks of people and spaces. We're really good together. Bit by bit.<br />
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<a href="http://www.nybc.org/index.jsp">Donate blood</a><br />
<a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycservice/home.html">New York City's how to help page</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2012/oct/30/how-help-hurricane-sandy/">WNYC's how to help page</a>, targeted at specific neighborhoods<br />
<a href="http://hurricanehackers.com/">Hurricane Hackers</a><br />
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<br />Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-32369057759400524252012-11-02T16:11:00.000-04:002012-11-02T16:11:07.207-04:00Le Too Much<img src="http://distilleryimage10.instagram.com/6c084aca6c7c11e1989612313815112c_7.jpg" /><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">via <a href="http://instagr.am/p/IFa25DSOIe/">@littleknife's instagram</a></span><br />
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the best overstock store name, found in Paris.<br />
I do love this a bit le too much.Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-35824579284446403502012-03-09T16:35:00.002-05:002012-03-09T16:36:12.250-05:00Unique use of bollard in Brussels<img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7055/6821681694_4302b771bd_z.jpg"><br /><br />I like how this guy stood like this for a half hour late at night. Bollards.Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-4200622780359358382012-03-09T16:29:00.000-05:002012-03-09T16:31:39.668-05:00Another Planning Corps articleI have been amiss about posting this, and it is no reflection on <a href="http://www.urbanomnibus.net">Urban Omnibus</a>, who I just adore. If you haven't signed up for its newsletter, you are surely missing out. I wrote a longer piece about Planning Corps' work on Queens Boulevard for it, <a href="http://urbanomnibus.net/2012/02/planning-corps-on-queens-boulevard/">voila</a>.Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-6125774325200937172012-01-10T17:36:00.002-05:002012-01-10T17:40:33.373-05:00Update on Planning Corps - Queens Blvd projectFor nearly two years, in fits and starts, I've been working with <a href="http://www.planningcorps.org">Planning Corps</a> on project to improve Queens Boulevard. We finally finished the final product - <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/77359320/Queens-Boulevard-A-Book-of-Precedents">a book comparing boulevards from around the world</a>. A write-up of the process of working on this project and also our internal process questioning the work of planners and how to be useful in an immediate and tactical way, is laid out on <a href="http://colabradio.mit.edu/redesigning-queens-boulevard-the-non-traditional-way/">MIT CoLab Radio</a>.Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-1727277185106405712012-01-03T16:07:00.003-05:002012-01-03T17:00:16.806-05:00When do experiments end?<img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7143/6607178739_c97df009bb_z.jpg"><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">The name of this is Diagram of Urban Actors.</span><br /><br />On the way to the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/arts/design/manhattan-street-grid-at-museum-of-city-of-new-york.html?ref=nyregion">Manhattan Street Grid</a> exhibit at the <a href="http://www.mcny.org/">MCNY</a> last week (see here for a great article reviewing the exhibit), I stopped by the <a href="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/exhibitions/other-90">Design with the Other 90%: CITIES </a>exhibit at the UN. <a href="http://designother90.org/cities/solutions/medellin-metrocable-and-northeast-integral-urban-project">Many</a> <a href="http://designother90.org/cities/solutions/guangzhou-bus-rapid-transit-system">of</a> the <a href="http://designother90.org/cities/solutions/map-kibera">projects</a> have been well-documented in other exhibits - for example, in the recent <a href="http://www.moma.org">MoMA</a> exhibit <a href="http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/talktome/">Talk to Me</a> or at the <a href="http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=center-for-architecture">Center for Architecture</a> in NYC. <br /><br />The popularity of these projects in so many different exhibitions says something about the projects, perhaps that a good idea needs to integrate so many facets of what it takes to be sustainable and participatory and global that they can be viewed from many different angles. <br /><br />The quality of public space continues to play a significant role in a community's ability to participate in any change-oriented project, yet there were only a couple of projects that focused on a public space itself. Though you could say that nearly all these projects are inherently about public space, whether they are physical, or about protecting the public realm. <br /><br /><a href="http://designother90.org/cities/solutions/vertical-gym-gimnasio-vertical">a public gym</a><br /><img src="http://designother90.org/sites/default/files/solutions/vertical-gym-utt-8500.jpg" width=600><br /><br /><a href="http://designother90.org/cities/solutions/community-cooker-jiko-ya-jamii">a communal kitchen</a><br /><img src="http://designother90.org/sites/default/files/solutions/5cooker.jpg" width=600> <br /><br /><a href="http://designother90.org/cities/solutions/chennai-sustainable-transportation-network">a public transportation system</a>, <a href="http://designother90.org/cities/solutions/platform-hope-ashar-macha">a gathering place</a>, etc.<br /><br />There was one example of the <a href="http://designother90.org/cities/solutions/diadema-reurbanization">participatory planning process</a> (including participatory budgeting), but I would argue that nearly all these projects - from the exhibit cards - had public participation. While this doesn't happen nearly often enough and needs to scale globally in a significant way, it struck me that maybe planning, as a tool, perhaps doesn't need the emphasis that I once thought it should have. Maybe when the end-goal is better articulated for social, economic, and environmental benefits, the planning process itself is more naturally oriented to be more inclusive and strategic. What do you think?<br /><br />As I looked at the projects in the exhibit, I couldn't help wondering what role <a href="http://www.planningcorps.org">Planning Corps</a> might have in each of them. Perhaps none at all. In fact, one project was a manual on urbanism, so that informal settlements could establish a kind of order that would benefit the overall community. Here are some pages from the Manual for Urbanism:<br /><br /><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7143/6607186219_7316eea8ef_z.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7175/6607189719_05f8cc1759_z.jpg"><br /><br />(Manuals are something that Planning Corps has prepared as well.) <br /><br />Planning Corps started out as an experiment. Was there a niche for planners to fill in the planning process? Could there be better match making between projects and planners? This exhibit made me think that maybe the thrust of the problem is that the problem is rarely defined correctly, which is why planners need to intervene in a strategic way. But if the projects were scoped appropriately from the beginning, intervention would no longer be necessary. Plus, if planners could always be strategic, then when process needs to change, all the actors can adapt. The need for a strategic process will never go away, but maybe the bad matching is not a procedural outcome, it's that we're not defining the problems correctly.<br /><br />In fact, much of the preparation in advance of the monthly Planning Corps working sessions involved us re-structuring the process so that the group could be strategic. It wasn't that the group was magically strategic when they came together; we had to be very structured and careful about how we used the two hours we spent with members of the corps. <br /><br />Planning Corps started as an experiment in 2010 and it's now 2012 - we're thinking about the year ahead. When you see better versions of your idea out there in public discourse, is it time to end your experiment?Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-30182633709717236792011-11-21T10:34:00.002-05:002011-11-21T10:38:21.724-05:00In NYC, the stair and ramp combo<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh-IokpJLrBlFdWRxPEFm694CZZFDB6nvAakyNiFaMS1BZPPIfcTDmt0Ko3KlsWNSV265xBbwUbAEniXrAk-MyMd9_ydJ8eXMkfce6F1fMswjMdcPiIooVqsJ68xeKJIogqfQ/s1600/Fort+Tryon+park+ramp+sidewalk.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh-IokpJLrBlFdWRxPEFm694CZZFDB6nvAakyNiFaMS1BZPPIfcTDmt0Ko3KlsWNSV265xBbwUbAEniXrAk-MyMd9_ydJ8eXMkfce6F1fMswjMdcPiIooVqsJ68xeKJIogqfQ/s400/Fort+Tryon+park+ramp+sidewalk.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677473538549606386" /></a><br /><br /><br />After reading my post on Zurich, a friend sent in this photo from her walk in <a href="http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/forttryonpark">Fort Tryon Park</a> this weekend. Nice! Now we have to get the public to think that this design could work on streets and sidewalks, and perhaps doesn't need to be relegated to just parks. <br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Thanks Deborah!</span>Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-83514117886151138082011-11-16T06:14:00.003-05:002011-11-16T07:02:54.384-05:00The Legibility of Street Design<img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6051/6339887698_00bf4fc101_z.jpg" width=600><br /><br />I had the incredible opportunity to go to Switzerland for a week devoted to the study of sustainable transport, thanks to an amazing program run by the <a href="http://www.eda.admin.ch/eda/en/home/reps/nameri/vusa/wasemb.html">Swiss Embassy in DC</a>, <a href="http://www.thinkswiss.org">ThinkSwiss</a>. Yay for Swiss ingenuity.<br /><br />My cohort of US transportation nerds included experts from academia, public sector, and industry associations from across the country. It was a pretty diverse group, an almost even split in gender, and not dominated by white, middle-aged male engineers. <br /><br />The program design was very thoughtful. We met with Swiss people responsible for <a href="http://www.bav.admin.ch/index.html?lang=en">federal level transport policy, sustainable planning, financing</a>, down to city-level design and implementation. We got an in-depth briefing about the <a href="http://www.sma-partner.ch/">timetable approach for managing rail systems</a>. We visited the construction site of the <a href="http://www.zvv.ch/en/about-us/infrastructure-projects/cross-city-link.html">Cross Rail project</a> in Zurich, toured the <a href="http://www.stadlerrail.com/en/vehicles/">Stadler</a> rail car factory and Zurich airport, and even went down to the still under construction <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel">Gotthard Base Tunnel</a>, for an up-close look at one of the greatest engineering feats in world history. Thanks to our intrepid hosts, our visits to all sites were conducted via <a href="http://www.sbb.ch/en/home.html">rail and public transport</a>.* I don’t know how they put up with us non-German-speaking yahoos (myself included) for so long on so many transit trips - I can’t say the word amazing enough.<br /><br />For me, it’s hard to walk around a European city and not ooh and aah over the livable street design and the stories behind making them happen. On the other hand, more than once, more than one of my colleagues mentioned that he just didn’t “get” urban design/policy, so I wanted to dive into this a little bit.<br /><br />Here’s a typical street one might encounter in Zurich. <br /><br /><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6037/6339887152_cf4c374fce_z.jpg" width=600><br /><br />We walked through many streets like this, and one day was even led by Ruedi Ott, currently Director of Transport Planning in Zurich and a hero in street design and urban planning. (If you know how lovely it is to meander around Zurich these days, you have Ruedi to thank.)<br /><br />This typical Zurich street is supported by multiple policies. The parking design speaks to a culture that puts bicycles and pedestrians above cars. Look at how bike parking is treated with the same level of importance as car parking. Plus, cooperation from enforcement agencies is needed to make sure cars don't overrun the sidewalk. Look at how well the trees are protected, so yes, street trees are important. Cars have to drive down this street very slowly, since people cross wherever they like - no curbs! What does this say about how this city thinks about how people must share space and how that space is connected to the health of the environment overall? <br /><br /><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6222/6337905466_c2c8840abc_z.jpg"><br /><br />OK, what about this image? Another typical alleyway/path in old town Zurich. Maybe it can be attributed to medieval design, but those weren’t exactly golden days. People struggled and were lucky to survive the plague. Still, the stair and ramp combo? Genius: it supports every level of physical ability, makes it easy to have a bike in spite of the hills, and kudos to modern Zurich for keeping the design. (You can see updated versions of this in mega-cities in China). As for the quality of the path materials, the cleanliness, etc, these things don’t happen on their own. They are a reflection of some form of urban design, zoning, preservation, and sanitation policies.<br /><br />I bring these up because the policy-design link tends to be elusive, especially when one is so deeply focused on technology and engineering, which the transportation field tends to be. Plus it's easy to overlook small scale details when thinking about big policy. But I do believe that the way we design and therefore experience our streets and cities is an illustration of our policies and therefore priorities as a society. Don’t want to get too lecture-y, this was just one of the interesting conversations that happened a few times over the week.<br /><br /><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6225/6337164139_d27bc2e164_z.jpg"><br /><br />* <span style="font-style:italic;">Without mentioning it to us, our hosts also chose some of the best places in Zurich for hanging out and meals. Here are a few, in case you’re in need: <a href="http://www.restaurant-reithalle.ch/reithalle.php">Reithalle</a> is a restaurant in an old horse barn on a redeveloped military riding school on an island in the center of Zurich, worth checking out just for the history; <a href="www.stadt-zuerich.ch/schipfe">Schipfe 16</a>, a state-run restaurant that also acts a rehabilitation program, and it's on the waterfront on the border of Old Town; <a href="www.terroir.ch">Restaurant Terroir</a> for everything Swiss, from the tables and cutlery to the food and wine; <a href="http://www.corazon.ch/">Corazon</a> for an extensive cocktail menu and warm, laid-back crowd; <a href="http://www.lasalle-restaurant.ch/">LaSalle</a>, part of a theater, bar, restaurant, club complex in a redeveloped building that used to handle ship construction.</span>Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-78854827676265649412011-08-03T14:58:00.004-04:002011-08-03T15:09:43.484-04:00Winter and Summer on Capital Bike ShareSomehow I got into two videos about Capital Bike Share. Obviously, this means that I can hardly wait for the NYC version to launch. The system is amazing - it really adds a much needed dimension to getting around.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.streetfilms.org/the-phenomenal-success-of-capital-bikeshare/#more-50805">The summer version</a> by <a href="http://www.streetfilms.org">Streetsfilms</a><br /><br /><iframe id="vimeo_player" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/26564924?js_api=1&js_swf_id=vimeo_player&title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=9086c0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/19318883">The winter version</a> by Aurash Khawarzad of <a href="http://patterncities.com/">Pattern Cities</a>, <a href="http://dotankbrooklyn.org/">DoTank:Brooklyn</a>, <a href="http://www.pps.org/">Project for Public Spaces</a>, urbanist<br /><br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/19318883?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><p>Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-8815509305578930822011-07-09T10:39:00.001-04:002011-07-09T10:41:09.547-04:00July<img src="http://distillery.s3.amazonaws.com/media/2011/06/19/7c32b00b3b6747c3bb977583470c87ec_7.jpg" width=650><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">via <a href="http://instagr.am/p/GBX6i/">swissmiss instagram</a></span>Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-24863865406011342552011-06-05T08:48:00.001-04:002011-06-05T08:50:36.466-04:00Swing on the sidewalk<img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5302/5577975569_14aff35875_z.jpg"><br />Via <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/chloelouisemayne/">rubyloum</a>Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-72446602645369477602011-05-31T12:43:00.003-04:002011-05-31T13:02:30.650-04:00Art for All<img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5131/5530689558_eac7b76e42_z.jpg"><br /><br />As ridiculous as it might seem, I fell in love with a <a href="http://www.wolfsonian.org/exhibitions/current/index.artforall.html">poster exhibit</a> this past weekend. The posters are from one of the most ambitious campaigns to encourage people to use public transport and staged by London Transport. Original art was commissioned and the results are an amazing exploration of consumption and place, and the creation of a strong civic identity. (The title of the show was taken from a 1948 show at the Victoria and Albert Museum that exhibited the original artwork for the posters.) The <a href="http://opac.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7575#">Yale exhibit site</a> has a slide show of some of the posters - I highly recommend the book. The graphic design and art are truly beautiful. Below is a favorite by Tom Purvis. Can we do a poster contest, MTA? WMATA?<br /><br /><img src="http://img.artknowledgenews.com/files2011may/Tom-Purvis-East-Coast.jpg" width=650>Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-85650504977239139672011-05-26T09:07:00.006-04:002011-05-26T09:26:39.162-04:00Idea #2: Public Service Announcement<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2705/5761283575_438c9a0bf8_b.jpg" width=650><br /><br />I have a Los Angeles bestie who I get to see about once a year. She's involved in the public space scene there - on the board of the LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, works at Getty, super talented, etc etc. Every time we get together, we show each other the latest in our respective cities, then inevitably get going on all the fun projects we want to do. Above is a little snapshot of one of those sessions from 2007. I love that we got so excited about this (you be the judge of the merit of the ideas). We were going to call our bi-coastal collaboration "Public S.A." - for Public Service Announcement. I still love the name.Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-75655005813322817742011-05-17T18:14:00.003-04:002011-05-17T18:55:53.028-04:00About this blog<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8cF878S99v3nBc7lNJs2oohKXg1bigVCD0MmW82Vhf8UZ_j55_TTYTPBcTJyAPDPZwgHRAyZG3qrGwRBzPkH0eylJcAGEYpnrWlCH6cMgUVwmZhQt8OprU3Yg5bTLUXUVZss/s1600/Yosemite+Glac+Pt.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 398px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8cF878S99v3nBc7lNJs2oohKXg1bigVCD0MmW82Vhf8UZ_j55_TTYTPBcTJyAPDPZwgHRAyZG3qrGwRBzPkH0eylJcAGEYpnrWlCH6cMgUVwmZhQt8OprU3Yg5bTLUXUVZss/s400/Yosemite+Glac+Pt.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607819291780815330" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Not sure where this came from...happy to credit it...</span><br /><br />This blog started back in 2004 as a way to track public space issues that interested me. Way back then, <a href="http://www.curbed.com">Curbed</a> was the reliable neighborhood development blog (rather than a hack for realtors). <a href="http://www.jenbekman.com">Jen Bekman</a> of the eponymous gallery used to gather us design, city, urbanist, architecture bloggers together for drinks every so often. Today, it would have to be a large bar to fit just the architecture bloggers out there. <br /><br />I felt OK with amateurly covering this space back then because there weren't too many others covering it. Obviously, things change, and this space changed. Tracking news stories became more about how public space gets won (markets, streets, parks, etc). It got more personal as I managed to talk my way into working at a few favorite organizations - <a href="http://www.pps.org">Project for Public Spaces</a>, <a href="http://www.transalt.org">Transportation Alternatives</a>, <a href="http://www.zgf.com">ZGF</a> - who were tackling the issue in their own ways. Still amateur, but different.<br /><br />Fast forward today. It's amazing how much the proliferation of media and free tools has led to such great coverage of space, design, architecture, urbanism, planning, and everything in between. I stopped tracking articles about public spaces, development, and cities because so many places did it so well (and much better than me). <br /><br />My interest in public spaces started broadly. I came to focus on transportation (i.e., 80% of NYC public space are its streets). From transportation, I opened up to climate change and energy (i.e., 70% of our oil is consumed for transportation purposes). And now I've come full circle back to cities (i.e., metropolitan regions take up only 2% of the earth's land mass but are responsible for 70% of global emissions). <br /><br />Over the course of the next few months, I'll be developing ideas and activities around cities, energy, and climate change. After being able to work on a variety of different scales, with various communities, and in design, planning, and policy, I feel that tying this broad, long-term, global issue - climate - to a very tangible, rooted perspective - cities - is a good way to try. The point is not to duplicate the wonderful work that so many organizations are doing on urban policy. The point is to advance energy and climate policy by examining opportunities and challenges in governance, policy, innovation, systems, and participation, through the lens of cities. The second point is to amplify the work that others are doing on urban policy and in elevating the profile of cities more generally. <br /><br />I'm really excited about this. I've thought a lot about whether I should shut BttN down, since it really no longer is a place to come and look at public space ideas, but I think I'll keep it up for the rare occasion that I find something worth sharing. It's a chance to continue noting a couple of things important to me: the smallest scales (that's why I love little urban interventions) when working on big policy. And signals of cultural shifts afoot - hence the inclusion of art on this site.<br /><br />That's where things are in 2011. Let's see how this goes!Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-44771231700644961842011-05-17T17:48:00.004-04:002011-05-17T18:12:59.463-04:00Idea #1: Adopt-a-Stop<span style="font-style:italic;">I was cleaning out my files today on the train and found a bunch of short documents squirreled away all over my laptop (not the most organized filer here.) I guess I used to sit down and write out a random public space idea, then save and forget all about it. Below is the first one, exactly as I wrote it a few years ago. It's silly and ingenuous and not well-developed - but I did laugh.</span><br /><blockquote>Small, interstitial public spaces are the best opportunities to improve the experience of a city dweller. Though New York City has lately paid much attention to reclaiming public space such as pop-up cafes, new public plazas from underutilized street space, the bus stop – and the bus layover space, with its 15 feet of curb – is an underutilized space as well. And of all of New York City’s residents, the bus rider’s experience is one given the least attention. <br /><br />This is a campaign to provide to bus riders a truly magnificent experience, one that equals the benefits they provide the city by not driving a car, polluting the air, and endangering its citizens. Historically, bus riders have been viewed as second class citizens. This is perhaps illustrated by the way Charlotte, NC, in the 1980s encouraged the development of skywalks, pristine walkways that protected privileged citizens from the weather as well as providing access to retail. Down below, on the messiness of the street, no shelter was provided for bus riders. They were forced to stand up to climate and few amenities.<br /><br />The campaign will identify popular bus stops – those with plenty of riders but with very few amenities. (Though NYC has launched a new street furniture system with new bus shelters, the shelters are expensive enough and sidewalk space scarce enough that not all bus stops will have shelters.) Adopt-a-Stop would pair the bus stop with a local civic organization. On a designated day of the year, the group will design an experience for riders alighting the bus at that particular stop. This will draw attention to the highly utilized bus stop system and greatly underserved bus ridership in NYC. Why shouldn’t bus riders receive the same high quality experience as other people on the street?<br /></blockquote><br />Yes, why the hell not?? And to get your creative juices going, here's a set of amazing bus shelters.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="http://www.polarinertia.com/jan07/bus01.htm">Soviet Style</a></span><br /><img src="http://www.polarinertia.com/jan07/images/busstops/01bus09.jpg"><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Beat the cold in <a href="http://www.psfk.com/2011/01/bus-shelter-keeps-commuters-warm-while-they-wait-pic.html">Minneapolis</a></span><br /><img src="http://www.psfk.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Bus-Shelter-Keeps-Commuters-Warm.jpg"><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">In <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cathyvevoe/4882196579/sizes/z/in/photostream/">Unst</a></span><br /><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4117/4882196579_b3e13ef3f0_z.jpg"><br />This one is famously community-oriented.<br /><br />Tons more on <a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=bus+shelters&f=hp">flickr</a>...Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-12307287252836865732011-05-17T17:26:00.003-04:002011-05-17T17:47:20.922-04:00Towns and stadiums suffering together<img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/05/17/sports/yRANCHO1/yRANCHO1-articleLarge.jpg"><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Image from <a href="http://www.nytimes.com">NYT </a></span><br /><br />Ah, the dream of stadiums as a driver of economic growth. It does happen. But it's not a quick fix.<br /><br />The NYT has an interesting article today, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/sports/a-companys-small-town-arenas-leave-cities-with-big-problems.html">"Company's Arenas Leave Cities with Big Problems."</a> The article describes the pain several smaller towns in more remote locations are experiencing because of their stadium strategies. They are now left with the high costs of maintaining the building and paying back the initial debt without the expected revenue. Other city services are being cut to keep the stadium afloat. There are few available buyers for stadiums, though I do recall a moment during the real estate bubble when there were quite a few international buyers for unattractive real estate. <br /><br />(Apparently the cities bought into the sales job from <a href="http://www.globalentertainment2000.com/index.php">Global Entertainment</a>, promised. Full list of stadiums this company helped build, <a href="http://www.globalentertainment2000.com/images/docs/gpi%20brochure1.pdf">pdf</a>.)<br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><br />[I've written a few times about stadiums at BttN and interestingly, this post, <a href="http://northbird.blogspot.com/2005/01/stadium-round-up.html">A stadium round-up</a> is consistently one of the most popular pages on this site. (Probably because sports fans trying to find a nearby stadium vastly outnumber urban nerds.)] </span>Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-61676353927386535062011-05-10T17:13:00.003-04:002011-05-10T17:48:07.169-04:00Who is making progress on cities, climate change, and policy?<img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5183/5653478643_1245b2627f.jpg"><br /><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5184/5654050890_35f95c0fc8.jpg"><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">images by Vera Frankel, rehearsals for String Games: Improvisations for Inter-City Video, 1974 from <a href="http://www.anambitiousprojectcollapsing.com/2011/04/vera-frenkel-rehearsals-for-string.html">here</a></span><br /><br />I'll ask it once again, who (person or organization) do you think is making good progress on cities, climate change and policy? It can be on any scale - urban intervention, city-wide, sectoral, regional, state, national, supranational, bilateral, multinational...you choose. I want to know who your city-climate change heroes are. You can define action, who does it, how much, what success is, etc. The only caveat is that your nominee should deal with policy somehow - effectively, the rules that allow multiple actors to engage with one another while avoiding public harm (btw, this is such a low bar that I feel it needs a disclaimer - this should not be a standard for public policy!)Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-70965878017632639622011-04-22T17:49:00.001-04:002011-04-22T17:52:30.077-04:00Projet Nid du Poule<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3458/3900730509_16be54c020_b.jpg"><br />Filling in the cracks - until the city decides that the sidewalks are worth taking care of? <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/39380641@N03/sets/72157622189211405/">Cool project</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/39380641@N03/">juliana santacruz herrera</a>.Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-42453561811984531802011-04-22T17:00:00.003-04:002011-04-22T17:06:52.211-04:00Happy Earth Day<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidHaNxHifaXtSA1EQCpRbG67moNe-LS8QbgCJRsYnYFVrF1vNPkQ5KiVQXluU5p97wOCqRLibaJiTkyVhqxY8hDxav2bzEafBLts-PzvlYFIMqXEYNknkZa4Mj85JXbl9otI7qcQ/s1600/1723.+People+in+Grand+Central+Station+4-15-2011.jpg"><br />From <a href="http://everypersoninnewyork.blogspot.com/">Jason Polan's Every Person in New York</a><br /><br />I know this is hokey, but it being earth day (and being bombarded by everyone's green newsletter) made me a bit reflective about things have progressed since I started this blog back in 2004 - both in "public spaces" and with my work too. I'm constantly reminded that everything goes back to people - being able to connect with others and thus remember why we're all working on this grand project together.Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574363.post-22030994752383352742011-03-08T13:02:00.005-05:002011-03-08T14:39:00.188-05:00Nerds get down and...<span style="font-style:italic;">...[fill in the blank].</span><br /><br /><img src="http://transportationcamp.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/IMG_2850.2.jpg" width=640><br /><br />I had the pleasure of emceeing the <a href="http://transportationcamp.org/2011/03/nerds-get-down-at-ignite-transpo/">Ignite presentations</a> for <a href="http://www.transportationcamp.org">Transportation Camp</a> this past Saturday. Great <s>presentations</s> stories from a bunch of different nerds - academics, mobility, transit, marketing, DOT, and planning; packed room, impressive for a Saturday night in New York City. Storytelling is so important when untangling complicated issues. The ability to weave a narrative is endlessly useful for problem-solving. <br /><br />I also had the fun of declaring two winners - an impromptu decision before the event to raise the stakes. The winners for amazing storytelling were <a href="http://twitter.com/cap_transport">Chris Pangilinan</a> from DC and <a href="http://fakeisthenewreal.org/">Neil Freeman</a> from NYC. Can't wait to see what will come out of Transportation Camp West.<br /><br />I do have to share Neil's project: <a href="http://thedailypothole.tumblr.com/">The Daily Pothole</a>. Just try not to fall in love with this! <span style="font-style:italic;">p.s. the name comes from the longstanding daily report that the road crews send around. nothing beats the real thing.</span><br /><br /><img src="http://thedailypothole.tumblr.com/photo/1280/3641246452/1/tumblr_lhcmqifvEU1qg9dmn" width=640><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">image from <a href="http://thedailypothole.tumblr.com">The Daily Pothole</a></span>Shin-peihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09292356381257027697noreply@blogger.com0