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Bikes (and the US Pavilion) Win in Venice
Venice, Italy is not known for bikes. In fact, bikes are banned in town unless you are four years old or younger. In Venice you either walk or take your choice of water vehicle, and it makes sense....
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“Lighter Than Air” PARK(ing) Day on Fri, Sept 21
PARK(ing) Day is one of our favorite “events” of the year with dozens and dozens of groups reclaiming parking spots throughout the Bay Area and repurposing them into temporary community-oriented public...
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PUBLIC WORKS Exhibition @ CCA
PUBLIC WORKS debuts at California College of the Arts (CCA) from October 9th – October 11th. Bike over and join us. Please RSVP. PUBLIC, a San Francisco based bicycle company with a mission to improve...
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PUBLIC WORKS @ FLOS in NYC
PUBLIC WORKS kicks off in New York City at FLOS from October 18th – October 25th. Bike over and join us. By invite only – please email courtney@bdeonline.biz. PUBLIC, a San Francisco based bicycle...
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PUBLIC WORKS: Designers Save Cities
We are launching PUBLIC WORKS this week. We invited twenty-seven world renowned designers to interpret the concept of “public” with a vision to improve our cities and how the bicycle can play a part....
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Size Matters. Looks Closely. PUBLIC WORKS.
We’ve just introduced a series of twenty-seven original posters by a stunning group of designers. These posters are exceptional for a number of reasons, and worth viewing in person if you can in San...
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PUBLIC WORKS Exhibition @ SPUR
PUBLIC WORKS will exhibit at San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) from October 23rd – November 1 (extended date). Bike over and join us. PUBLIC, a San Francisco based bicycle...
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New Bikes for $399
Every now and then some super special deal comes along in the world of transportation. For cars it might have been the VW Beetle in the 1950’s. In airplanes it might have been Southwest Airlines...
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Taking Back the Streets
Every time I go to New York I find further examples of how a city can find new bold ways to improve the streets for residents. The bike lane programs instituted under Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner...
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Cars. Freedom. Sex. Thanks.
I received an email out of the blue last week from a childhood friend whom I had not heard from since 8th grade. The year was 1967. We were mid-century modern kids growing up in suburban South...
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An Urban Cupid?
“We can live without it, we may live longer without it, and the doggie bag will survive just fine.” -Mayor Bloomberg comparing plastic foam containers to lead paint. We show love in many ways. This...
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How Downtown Can Save America One Step at a Time
Walkable City by Jeff Speck Jeff Speck Chicago, IL Arezzo, Italy New York, NY Amsterdam, Netherlands Portland, Oregon A few years ago, I participated in a National Quarterly Forum called the Mayors’...
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Can Humor Reduce Road Rage?
Clet Abraham Clet Abraham Puppy by Jeff Koons Untitled (donkey) by Paola Pivi I was walking through a small town in Tuscany recently and did a double take on this road sign that someone had modified...
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PUBLIC Photo Contest Winners
We celebrated the launch of PUBLIC WORKS with a photo contest. We asked contestants to explore the same theme we asked of our PUBLIC WORKS designers – interpret the concept of "public" with a vision...
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Italian Women
We were touring Italy last month checking out the urban biking scene in a range of cities. This makes for some interesting comparisons to the United States and leads us to this quiz: What is the...
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Bike Spotting (and Counting) on Market Street
Velometer asks: “Why count bikes? Because we want bikes to count.” As part of this year’s San Francisco Bike to Work Day, the city debuted its first digital bicycle counter on Market Street, one of...
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Bike Superhighway for Los Angeles?
I grew up in Pasadena, California close to Los Angeles. Pasadena is well known for the Rose Parade, a festival of flowers, which dates back to 1890. But more interesting perhaps during the 1890s with...
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NYC Bike Share Raves and Rants
The launch of bike share in New York City, aka CitiBike, is probably the most significant transportation development in the city – and perhaps the country – in decades. Everyday it seems there is...
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Public Protests: Istanbul (Now) and Amsterdam (Then)
The recent intense protests in Taksim Gezi Park in Istanbul have brought attention to the value and meaning of Public Space. Istanbul has very little free open space, and the government had planned to...
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Rolling out the Green Carpet in San Francisco
We’re big fans of color at PUBLIC, and we love to see it used intelligently in our public spaces to offset the grey asphalt that dominates our urban landscapes. We’ve add a fantastic infusion of green...
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