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Hacking the City
- 1. Hacking the City Aaron Naparstek Silicon Valley Bike Coalition Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Palo Alto
- 2. Honku: Where itall began… Clinton Street, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
- 3. Life on ClintonStreet. PBS “Life 360” with Michel Martin, July 2002.
- 4. One day thehonking pushed me over the edge.
- 5. Honking doesn’t solvethis problem. (Note: This isn't Clinton Street. It's Broadway. Same problem.)
- 6. Eggs on thestreet.
- 7. The incident leftme shaken.
- 8. I realized Ineeded a new solution.
- 9. You from NewJersey Honking in front of my house In your S.U.V.
- 10. When the lightturns green Like a leaf on a spring wind The horn blows quickly
- 11. Gas-guzzler flying littleAmerican flags the Saudis thank you
- 12. Your Ford Explorer ona never-ending quest for a parking spot
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- 14. Oh, Jeezus Chrysler What'sall the damned honking, Ford? Please shut the truck up
- 15. What keeps mefrom just pelting your honking auto with rotting garbage?
- 16. You don't likehonking? Then why live in the city tilting at windmills
- 17. I came outof the closet.
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- 19. People start brainstormingsolutions
- 20. Honku was, literally,the Talk of the Town.
- 21. The obvious nextstep: Book deal. Who will play me in the movie?
- 22. My first livablestreets activism. PBS “Life 360” with Michel Martin, July 2002.
- 23. And on thesecond day He said, "Let their be light." And so it was.
- 24. Windshield Perspective. TK Cartoon by Ian Lockwood.
- 25. Our planning, designand engineering was producing this. Typical Midtown Manhattan street scene, circa 2005
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- 27. So how dowe make change?
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- 29. Another way tomake change: Be the change. Hack the city.
- 30. An inspiration: Park(ing)Day Rebar Group's first Park(ing) installation in San Francisco, Sept. 2005
- 31. The Park(ing) conceptreally resonated. “Public space reclamation in progress.” May 2006, Park Slope, Brooklyn.
- 32. Rebar turned Park(ing)Day into an open source project.
- 33. Park(ing) Day 2006 47 parks 13 cities 3 countries Midtown Manhattan
- 34. Park(ing) Day 2007 200 parks 50 cities 9 countries Athens, Georgia
- 35. Park(ing) Day 2008 600 parks 100 cities 13 countries Indianapolis, Indiana
- 36. Park(ing) Day 2009 700+ parks 140 cities 21 countries Krakow, Poland
- 37. Park(ing) Day 2010 800+ parks 183 cities 30 countries Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 38. Park(ing) Day 2011 975 parks 162 cities 35 countries Ahmedabad, India
- 39. Park(ing) Day WorldMap Antarctica remains un-reclaimed.
- 40. Park(ing) becomes officialcity policy in San Francisco Spring 2009, San Francisco launches the Pavement-to-Parks program
- 41. San Francisco callsthem “parklets.” Today there are 24 "parklets,” including 2 mobile parklets.
- 42. New York Cityalso implemented a version of Park(ing) August 12, 2010, NYC's launches its Pop-Up Café program.
- 43. Park(ing) becomes officialcity policy in NYC Pearl Street 50-Seat Pop-Up Cafe in Lower Manhattan's Financial District
- 44. A new wayof designing streets and public spaces. Before After Broadway at 34th Street, Herald Square, Manhattan.
- 45. Car-Free Broadway atTimes Square Before After
- 46. A faster, cheapermore feedback-intensive design process. Before After Phase 1 of “Castro Commons,” in San Francisco.
- 47. “Lean Design” and“Agile Development” for cities. Phase 2 of “Castro Commons.”
- 48. The city isthe original social media. Giant chessboard in the middle of Broadway at Herald Square.
- 49. The Livable StreetsMovement. Me and my son on the Prospect Park West bike lane.
- 50. Being the change. TheNaparstek boys on their Onderwater Tandem family bike.