Problem with Parklets - Revision history

Ccarlsson at 05:44, 20 June 2025

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Lisaruth: brought source to byline, corrected broken link to book

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	''by Erica Dawn Lyle''		''by Erica Dawn Lyle, excerpted from [https://www.ericadawnlyle.info/streetopiabook ''Streetopia''], in the essay "The Uses of Market Street", 2015''

	[[Image:Parklet-4-barrell 0259.jpg]]		[[Image:Parklet-4-barrell 0259.jpg]]

	'''Parklet in front of Four ~~Barrell~~ Coffee on Valencia between 14th and 15th streets.'''		'''Parklet in front of Four Barrel Coffee on Valencia between 14th and 15th streets.'''

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	[[Image:Streetopia cover 9780692424285.jpg\|200px\|left]] ''Excerpted from [~~http~~://~~streetopiasf~~.~~com~~/ ''Streetopia''], in the essay "The Uses of Market Street"''		[[Image:Streetopia cover 9780692424285.jpg\|200px\|left]] ''Excerpted from [https://www.ericadawnlyle.info/streetopiabook ''Streetopia''], in the essay "The Uses of Market Street"''

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Ccarlsson: fixed Erica's name

2023-06-20T03:35:35Z

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	''by ~~Erick~~ Lyle''		''by Erica Dawn Lyle''

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 '''Facebook and Google buses cruise past the parklet in front the worker-owned cooperative bakery Arizmendi in 2016.'''
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Ccarlsson: added to new category Technology

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Lisaruth: Protected "Problem with Parklets" ([Edit=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only administrators] (indefinite))

2017-07-08T00:17:25Z

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Ccarlsson at 23:37, 15 March 2017

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			[[Uses of Market Street\|Uses of Market Street]]

			[[Redevelopment vs. Ecotopia\|Redevelopment vs. Ecotopia]]

			[[San Francisco Singularity?\|San Francisco Singularity?]]

			[[Displacement and Trauma: A Public Health Crisis\|Displacement and Trauma: A Public Health Crisis]]

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Ccarlsson at 08:07, 3 February 2017

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	''by Erick Lyle''		''by Erick Lyle''

	~~''Excerpted from [http://streetopiasf.com/ ''Streetopia''], in the essay "The Uses of Market Street"''~~

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	''Photo: Chris Carlsson''		''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

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			[[Image:Streetopia cover 9780692424285.jpg\|200px\|left]] ''Excerpted from [http://streetopiasf.com/ ''Streetopia''], in the essay "The Uses of Market Street"''

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Ccarlsson: Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Erick Lyle'' ''Excerpted from [http://streetopiasf.com/ ''Street..."

2017-02-03T08:05:57Z

Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Erick Lyle'' ''Excerpted from [http://streetopiasf.com/ ''Street..."

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''' Historical Essay '''

''by Erick Lyle''

''Excerpted from [http://streetopiasf.com/ ''Streetopia''], in the essay "The Uses of Market Street"''

[[Image:Parklet-4-barrell 0259.jpg]]

'''Parklet in front of Four Barrell Coffee on Valencia between 14th and 15th streets.'''

''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

The city’s response to this collapse of its public spaces has been to encourage the development and proliferation of an innovative kind of post-public space. In 2010, the very year that it became illegal to sit on a public sidewalk in San Francisco, the city also began issuing permits for the creation of so-called parklets.

Claimed by the growing Tactical Urbanist movement as one of its greatest successes, parklets were born in 2005 in San Francisco, when an arts group simply rolled out a patch of fake grass across a city-owned parking spot and placed some chairs and a potted tree atop it. There was a sign instructing passersby to put coins in the parking meter if they wanted to keep the new park in existence. Today there are forty-three similar parklets in the city, individually designed by top local firms and neighborhood architects, and all officially permitted by the city.

[[Image:Park-ing-Day-2012 0247.jpg]]

'''Park-ing Day, 2012, on Valencia Street.'''

''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

But did that parking meter ever really go away? While it is still literally and legally true that the parklets are public space reclaimed from use by private automobiles, in practice these so-called parks are nothing more than outdoor seating areas for the restaurants and cafes in front of which they are invariably located. (Only one parklet is in front of a private residence; the rest are administered by commercial enterprises.) Thus in another bait and switch the first parklet’s friendly invitation to passersby to simply stop and linger on a lawn has been quickly replaced with a new kind of for-profit space. In the process, the parklets—privately sponsored, funded, and maintained—have become the perfect expression of our neoliberal age. Anyone can have their own park, just big enough for themselves and their friends, if they pay for it out of their own pocket.

As traditional public space in the city becomes untenable due to economic inequality, we see an economically and racially homogenous segment of the population retreat to these spaces that are legally but not legibly public. The homogeneity of these populations and their apparent access to an abundance of leisure time and disposable income present a powerful message of non-inclusiveness to the city’s people of color, the urban poor, and the homeless, who in contrast have been warned loud and clear in recent years not to take it for granted that they can sit anywhere in public without risking arrest or police harassment. In short, the parklet is the Google Bus of public space.

[[Image:Parklet-at-arizmendi-with-two-tech-buses P1060977.jpg]]

'''Facebook and Google buses cruise past the parklet in front the worker-owned cooperative bakery Arizmendi in 2016.'''

''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

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