Here in SF, @SafeStreetRebel installed a mini road diet at the 4th St/Channel intersection in Mission Bay where a driver killed a 2-year-old last month.
They also tallied all the City's proposed changes in response to 138 fatalities in the past 5 years, and it's revealing. 33% of fatal crashes led to NO proposed changes. 71% either proposed no change, repainting existing road markings, or just doing changes already required by state law.
https://www.safestreetrebel.com/blog/community-installs-safety-improvements-at-4th-and-channel-st/
Just before 9pm on Friday February 27th, a driver struck and killed a 2 year old child crossing the street at 4th and Channel and injured her mother. This was the third time in 2026 a driver killed someone outside of a car in San Francisco and since then, two
Today in #guerrillaUrbanism news: The SF Bay Area Bench Collective has installed its first community bus bench on the Peninsula, at the El Camino Real/Maple stop on the SamTrans ECR line in Redwood City!
See all the SFBABC benches mapped, and how to adopt one, request one, or host your own build, here: https://sfbabc.org 1/2
When I saw “took matters into his own hands” in the news page’s link to this article, I was expecting some kind of #GuerrillaUrbanism, not an 8 year old child embarking on 7+ years of bureaucratic wrangling with two councils and tte state government. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-24/thomas-street-crossing-bayside-glen-eira-council-teen-advocacy/101828578
A request to install a crossing to make a busy road safer seemed like a simple enough request to Flynn, but when his local council would not intervene, he took matters into his own hands.
I know we're collectively no longer a fan of this particular journal, but there are some nice case examples in this article
'Framework Conditions and Strategies for Pop-Up Environments in Urban Planning'
#Urban #PopUp #GuerrillaUrbanism #architecture #TemporaryArchitecture
#AcademicFedi
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/24/7204
Urban strategies and the way cities are planned have changed throughout history, adapting to the needs of the inhabitants, infrastructure requirements, and advances in technology. Uses and customs of people and cities are changing and can evolve much faster than in the past, with the result that urban planning is often too slow to adequately meet the current needs of society. In this context, the development of pop-up environments for temporary developments could be a solution to meet the needs of flexibility, adaptation, and resilience of a city. This allows the urban planner to consider systems from a short-term perspective, fulfilling current needs without compromising the development of potentially different activities in the future. The purpose of this research work is to outline the general requirements of pop-up environments in urban developments that allow for adequate integration into urban planning strategies. Based on an extensive evaluation of the existing literature and a series of case studies, the paper analyzes the key elements that define the framework conditions of urban planning strategies for temporary developments that generate a positive impact on the overall urban system.
Intense attention has been paid to Detroit as a site of urban crisis. This crisis, however, has not only yielded the massive devaluation of real estate that has so often been noted; it has also yielded an explosive production of seemingly valueless urban property that has facilitated the imagination...
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