New York City’s Worst Highways Can Lead Somewhere Better

January 21, 2026
The expressways that Robert Moses carved into the city helped inspire the entire American highway system. Now they can be models for community-led reform. 

I Am Northwest Arkansas Podcast Interview

November 4, 2024
Host Randy Wilburn welcomes Alison Sant to discuss her keynote at the ULI Northwest Arkansas Place Summit.

Share the Road

January 29, 2024
Op-ed: Shared mobility is the future of city streets. Here’s how to do it right.

Queens’ 34th Avenue Shows What Open Streets Can Do For People

April 14, 2023
Op-Ed. “The 34th Avenue Open Street shows how urban roads can be repurposed to make a more livable city. Even more, it is an example of how communities must lead these efforts so that streets reflect a common vision for what communities care about.”

Resilience Matters

2023
Contributors to the Island Press Short-form Program captured this hopeful, life-affirming work through a series of articles, op-eds, interviews, and other short-form writing that have now been collected in the latest edition of our e-book series Resilience Matters, available below at no cost thanks to our grant support from The Kresge Foundation and The JPB Foundation.

Vote For A Better San Francisco

Nov 7, 2022
Op-ed: The future of San Francisco's car-free streets

Jane Jacobs Lecture Series: Streets For Everyone

June 7, 2022
A panel discussion with Tamika Butler, a national expert on the built environment and equity; Dani Simons, the Director of Public Affairs for the USDOT; and urbanist John Bela, one of the creators of Park(ing) Day, in conversation with Alison Sant, author of From the Ground Up.

Ditch Cars for Open – and Equal – Streets

April 19, 2022
Car-centric streets are dangerous and perpetuate inequity, but the pandemic has pointed us to ways we can better use our public spaces.

From the Ground Up

2022
Named one of the best books of 2022 by the American Society of Landscape Architects and Planetizen

Pedal In!

September 17, 2017
Created for the opening of The Commons, a public gathering space at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Studio hosted a public bike ride featuring a series of talks focused on bicycling as a way of claiming public space from our city streets to our parklands.

Reclaim Market Street!

October 2011
Reclaim Market Street! was an exhibition and series of street interventions created by the Studio for Urban Projects to augment the community engagement process in remaking San Francisco's central boulevard. By staging a series of events, from biking and walking tours to temporary playgrounds and film screenings, the Studio engaged the public in reimagining the street from interventions that engaged the public in changing the street.