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Just thinking about Park(ing) Day makes me sad that Jason is not going to be here with us this time around. But that same emotion is driving me to go after it and make a really good park in Jason’s honor.
I realized when [...]

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No, it’s not a new electric car to scribble on. It’s not a movie screening at our office. It’s not a park in a parking spot on J Street.
This time, it’s something somebody else is doing.
It’s one of Sacramento’s best-kept secrets in the urban core right now. And we think it’s cool [...]

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I have been reading a lot lately about how we now have 1 billion cars on the road in the world and more interestingly that the number is expected to double in something like the next 30 years. I found an interesting article today about some possible ways around the gridlock. And for those who [...]

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I read this awesome article today in the ULI magazine we get here at the office. They were talking about how some cities are finding that “un-bundling” parking leads to more affordable housing and better transportation options. By un-bundling they mean building a project with say .8 parking spaces per unit and selling [...]

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This is an email that was sent to us by Nancy Mathison who was one of the coordinators for National Park(ing) Day.
It’s 5am and completely quite in downtown Sacramento except for the sound of sod being rolled out. While volunteers are biking in sod, carrying over trees and umbrellas, and making last minute print-outs for [...]

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Wow. Working with this eclectic group of eco-urbanists on National Park(ing) Day has been crazy fun.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it takes to bring “fresh air” to the city (both literally and figuratively) and doing this has been that “fresh air” for the dedicated group of volunteers working on this. We [...]

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National (Park)ing Day: September 21st, 2007
In the last 24 hours, I got two e-mails — one from an photographer and one from a landscape designer, neither of whom know each other — pointing me to the fun, eco-urban efforts behind REBAR’s National (Park)ing Day.
You gotta check this out.
From the Site: National (Park)ing Day is…
a one-day, [...]

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Californian’s mythical love affair with the car is so ingrained in our cities that it seems assumed that that is what our economy runs on. Cities chase after auto-malls for sales tax dollars and retail establishments need parking for the weekend before Christmas to feel secure. We have to break out of this [...]

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Blogs are great. You post your thoughts and people respond and then more people respond and a little conversation starts to happen and the community is stronger for it. At least, that’s what we hope.
So, we’re looking for feedback. Always. We can’t get enough of it. Right now there’s a lot of guessing by a [...]

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