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.

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.

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

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.”

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

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.

Op-ed: The future of San Francisco's car-free streets

Center for the Living City online panel