https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes daily 0.75 2026-08-23 https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/rahul-kadri monthly 0.5 2026-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/be347a4c-ce5c-4d4e-9b88-23785bd6dbc5/Rahul+Kidra.jpg Episodes - Rahul Kadri - What does it mean to design for a city where space is scarce, change is relentless, and the people who live there are too often left out of the process? Mumbai architect and urban designer Rahul Kadri joins The Sidewalk Ballet for a conversation about architecture as a tool for creating not just buildings, but healthier, more connected cities. Rahul is Principal Architect and Partner at IMK Architects, the practice founded by his father, I. M. Kadri, and his work spans architecture, urban planning, housing, education, ecology, and public space. We talk about inheriting—and evolving—a significant architectural legacy; new approaches to Mumbai's housing and density challenges; designing places that encourage friendship and connection; and rethinking the design process itself to make it more collaborative and participatory. And, of course, we talk about the Malabar Hill Forest Trail: an extraordinary elevated walkway winding through a long-inaccessible urban forest that Rahul first explored as a boy. What began during the pandemic as an idea for reclaiming a piece of his childhood has become one of Mumbai's most celebrated new public spaces — and a powerful example of what can happen when architects don't wait for a client to tell them what a city needs. It's a conversation about who gets to shape the city, how architects can create the conditions for people to shape it together, and what it means to build for connection in one of the densest cities on Earth. imkarchitects.com Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Nepean Sea Road Citizens' Forum Architectural Digest Christopher Alexander Charles Moore SCRUM Diaspora Spice Co. https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/democracy monthly 0.5 2026-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/2037bd06-678f-4cde-a77c-4f0055afeaef/marian.jpg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - Make it stand out Dr. Christine Brooks Talks with Chip about the science of friendship and the importance of expressive arts in community building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/5b409b73-7e91-42d1-8f04-e2da58b64d83/Setha+Low.jpeg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - Setha Low Distinguished Professor of Environmental Psychology, Anthropology, Geography, and Women's Studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Setha Low Professor Emerita of Environmental Psychology, Anthropology, Geography, and Women's Studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York Dr. Setha Low is one of the world's leading scholars of public space. For more than four decades, her research has explored the relationship between people, place, culture, and democracy, examining how parks, plazas, streets, and other shared spaces shape civic life. Her work has helped redefine the way cities understand public space—not simply as physical infrastructure, but as a reflection of who belongs, who participates, and who feels welcome. Her books include On the Plaza, Spatializing Culture, and Why Public Space Matters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1519fa80-843b-4171-9ce0-7c8423b1ad00/Judy+Feldman.jpeg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - Judy Scott Feldman Founder and Chair, National Mall Coalition Judy Feldman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/b8e3c89c-13b0-4212-b09b-221446daa06c/Sheila+Foster.jpeg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - Sheila Foster Professor at Columbia University's Climate School and an affiliated faculty member at Columbia Law School. Sheila Foster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/94e463fb-82ec-4b26-bb15-2c9636a4872f/Dr%2BCara%2BCourage_colour%2Bheadshot_01.webp Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - Cara Courage Author, Researcher, and Creative Placemaking Practitioner Dr. Cara Courage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/da26d14e-f27b-40b6-af82-1800039f6edb/Marian+and+Abe.jpeg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - Marian Anderson (1897-1993) Marian Anderson was one of the most celebrated contraltos of the twentieth century, renowned throughout the world for the depth, warmth, and expressive power of her voice. After being denied the opportunity to perform at Washington's Constitution Hall because of her race, Anderson accepted an invitation to sing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939. Before an integrated public of 75,000 people—and millions more listening by radio—her performance became one of the defining moments of American civic history. More than a concert, it revealed the power of public space to expand the meaning of "We the People." Her voice continues to remind us that democracy is not only written in constitutions and laws, but also expressed in the places where people gather. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1773123931649-8YZ90M09D62J2VG7BO1F/Evan+Weisman+%281%29.jpg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - “None of the Movements, that I know of, that have expanded democracy, and who gets to take part, started at the top. They’s all started Locally and Moved their way up.” Evan Weissman is the Founder of Warm Cookies of the Revolution, the worlds first “civic gym” located in Denver Colorado. Evan was featured in Episode 12 of Sidewalk Ballet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1760560554505-SCNPWCJSRL03X791XMSE/karen-christensen-pod+%282%29.jpg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - “What I’ve realized is that Third Places really provide a solution to the major problems we face, the things we need cures for, essentially: Loneliness, Climate Change and Political Polarization.” Karen Christensen is an author, publisher, and community leader whose work spans culture, sustainability, and the power of networks. As the founder of Berkshire Publishing Group, she has long championed ideas and institutions that strengthen communities. Her forthcoming book, written in collaboration with Ray Oldenburg, revisits and reimagines the concept of the “third place” for today’s world. Karen was our first guest on Sidewalk Ballet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1774749011089-U8TH3BE31IGG11XH8MYN/jay-pitter-pod+%284%29.jpg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - “Public Joy is not an emotion or an idea it is a generative civic condition. It is a condition that asks, what kind of systems, spaces, policies and social attitudes would make our collective joy, belonging and thriving, not possible, but inevitable.” Jay Pitter, MES, is an award-winning placemaker and author creating joyful public spaces that foster belonging, prosperity, and cultural memory. She advances this work through cultural planning, policy frameworks, and storytelling—bridging rigor and collective imagination to advance public joy as essential urban infrastructure and a human right. Beyond her professional roles, Jay is passionate about cultivating everyday joy and inspiring communities to be stewards of one another’s joy—nurturing more harmonious and hopeful cities during these divided times. Jay was featured on Episode 5 of Sidewalk Ballet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1776023085150-7RCK8JLY1GKFT3WVUA7P/Tamika+Butler.jpg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - “How do we figure out what is best for the greater good, and that what we’re still aiming for, and how do we negotiate that, and acknowledge that part of equity is saying, maybe there aren’t any bright line rules, other than, care about individuals, listen to individuals and be responsive in that moment “ tamika l. butler (she/her or they/them) is a doctoral student in Urban Planning at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs. Her research employs a critical race, historical, legal, and policy-based approach to examine how transportation policy and infrastructure have been used to segregate, isolate, and prevent the mobility of Black and other historically oppressed groups of people. tamika was featured in Episode 14 of Sidewalk Ballet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1781501920683-2X5N4J66ASA12YOIXBQO/CAra.jpg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - “You know, you can go into a neighborhood and the neighborhood will have the answers to whatever the problems or the questions are of the place, but there will be hundreds of them. And you’ll get people along a journey where they do become… a consensus emerges amongst themselves about what they want and creative means and creative artistic questioning i a really great way to do that.” Dr Cara Courage SFIPM FRSA and URBACT Expert, works with people and organisations who want to make culture, heritage and place matter more, and matter to more people. Dr. Cara Courage joined us for Episode 18 of Sidewalk Ballet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/65090477-14e0-4c2f-95e6-0997121e6fc3/Kathleen.jpg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - “Public Space matters to everyone who enters it - regardless of you socio-economic status, regardless of your position in life - and so for me, Peoples experience as they’re walking their dog or they’re walking to work or they’re leaving their apartment to go to a restaurant around the corner. That matters a lot.” Kathleen Rawson is a place management professional with more than 30 years of experience in nonprofit leadership, public space management, placemaking, and hospitality. Rawson currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer for The Hollywood Partnership, the non-profit organization that manages the Hollywood Entertainment District, including the world-renowned Walk of Fame. Kathleen joined us on Episode 19 for a conversation with Michael Edwards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/b2789de3-bc0e-4a00-b5f9-83f74bb12abb/Leva.jpg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - “When you see different images, different colors different symbols, all of those things, when you are an immigrant for example… when I’m walking in the street and I suddenly see something written in Farsi, it takes me, because belonging is not just the people, it is the space, it is the smell ,it is the visual images that you see around you. Are we really creating a space of belonging for the folks we want to welcome, I think that’s the constant question and quest for all of us.” Leva Zand is the founder and former Director of Artogether, a resource center for the refugee community, providing free creative arts instruction and supplies within a setting that supports social gathering, human connection, and community-building. She, and Artogether were featured in Episode 9 of Sidewalk Ballet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/711ee8f9-6b12-419e-8b32-871c83ee817b/Susan.jpg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - “At places like Comptons Cafeteria which used to be at the corner at Turk and Taylor Streets in the Tenderloin - It was a racially mixed and integrated space, and what some of the trans women who were there would say, you know the white girls would be with the white girls, the brown girls would be with the brown girls, the asian girls would be with the asian girls, the black girls would be with the black gils, but when the police came in we were all trans. Sometimes there’s differences within a community, but in the face of external oppression, peple know what they’re banding together as.” Susan Stryker is an American professor, historian, author, filmmaker, and theorist whose work focuses on gender and human sexuality. She is a professor of Gender and Women's Studies, former director of the Institute for LGBT Studies, and founder of the Transgender Studies Initiative at the University of Arizona. Stryker is the author of several books and a founding figure of transgender studies as well as a scholar of transgender history. Susan was featured in Episode 11 of Sidewalk Ballet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1759907302278-WPTBF4C65QXXU3UG3W1M/Majora-Carter-pod+%282%29.jpg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - “By building those places, and we know that throughout history, having those spaces whether its the Civil Rights history, where there churches, there were the blacks only places where there were either hotels or restaurants where people would gather to build what became the civil rights movement. But it’s also just the kind of places where people go to build community so they feel like their neighborhood is worth living in. Straight up.” Majora Carter is one of the most visionary voices in urban revitalization today. A real estate developer, strategist, and Peabody Award–winning broadcaster, she has redefined what it means for communities to shape their own futures. From her groundbreaking work in the South Bronx to her national platform as an advocate for environmental justice and economic empowerment, Majora has spent her career challenging the idea that low-status neighborhoods are destined to remain so. MAjora was featured in Episode 2 of Sidewalk Ballet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/a57a38a9-feaa-4912-a492-da928405ad1a/why+psm.jpeg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - Make it stand out Why Public Space Matters - Setha Low https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/83d2ac1a-7c89-49e8-a413-8efd881af97f/on+the+plaza.jpg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - Make it stand out On the Plaza - Setha Low https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/a2173a10-29ee-4bd6-91a3-4d1fb0334d1f/co-cities.jpg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - Make it stand out Co-Cities - Sheila Foster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/45f074cf-2581-45ff-bc85-5877ba57b29f/placemaking+handbook.jpg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - Make it stand out Placemaking Handbook - Dr. Cara Courage https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/ice-cream monthly 0.5 2026-07-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/fb0879e7-8bcd-4b89-a04c-b061ec36787d/Ice+Cream+SB+%282%29.jpg Episodes - Small Block - The Ice Cream Mayor - Make it stand out Dr. Christine Brooks Talks with Chip about the science of friendship and the importance of expressive arts in community building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1ec20199-d786-49ef-9150-9834ff8627a9/Don+Museum.jpg Episodes - Small Block - The Ice Cream Mayor - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/democracypt1 monthly 0.5 2026-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/26ddf411-7b48-4a13-9e94-5c77ed3e9843/Copy+of+marian.jpg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - Part One - Make it stand out Dr. Christine Brooks Talks with Chip about the science of friendship and the importance of expressive arts in community building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/5b409b73-7e91-42d1-8f04-e2da58b64d83/Setha+Low.jpeg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - Part One - Setha Low Distinguished Professor of Environmental Psychology, Anthropology, Geography, and Women's Studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York Setha Low Professor Emerita of Environmental Psychology, Anthropology, Geography, and Women's Studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York Dr. Setha Low is one of the world's leading scholars of public space. For more than four decades, her research has explored the relationship between people, place, culture, and democracy, examining how parks, plazas, streets, and other shared spaces shape civic life. Her work has helped redefine the way cities understand public space—not simply as physical infrastructure, but as a reflection of who belongs, who participates, and who feels welcome. Her books include On the Plaza, Spatializing Culture, and Why Public Space Matters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1519fa80-843b-4171-9ce0-7c8423b1ad00/Judy+Feldman.jpeg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - Part One - Judy Scott Feldman Founder and Chair, National Mall Coalition Judy Feldman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/b8e3c89c-13b0-4212-b09b-221446daa06c/Sheila+Foster.jpeg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - Part One - Sheila Foster Professor at Columbia University's Climate School and an affiliated faculty member at Columbia Law School. Sheila Foster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/94e463fb-82ec-4b26-bb15-2c9636a4872f/Dr%2BCara%2BCourage_colour%2Bheadshot_01.webp Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - Part One - Cara Courage Author, Researcher, and Creative Placemaking Practitioner Dr. Cara Courage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/da26d14e-f27b-40b6-af82-1800039f6edb/Marian+and+Abe.jpeg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - Part One - Marian Anderson (1897-1993) - Marian Anderson was one of the most celebrated contraltos of the twentieth century, renowned throughout the world for the depth, warmth, and expressive power of her voice. After being denied the opportunity to perform at Washington's Constitution Hall because of her race, Anderson accepted an invitation to sing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939. Before an integrated public of 75,000 people—and millions more listening by radio—her performance became one of the defining moments of American civic history. More than a concert, it revealed the power of public space to expand the meaning of "We the People." Her voice continues to remind us that democracy is not only written in constitutions and laws, but also expressed in the places where people gather. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/a57a38a9-feaa-4912-a492-da928405ad1a/why+psm.jpeg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - Part One - Make it stand out Why Public Space Matters - Setha Low https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/83d2ac1a-7c89-49e8-a413-8efd881af97f/on+the+plaza.jpg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - Part One - Make it stand out On the Plaza - Setha Low https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/a2173a10-29ee-4bd6-91a3-4d1fb0334d1f/co-cities.jpg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - Part One - Make it stand out Co-Cities - Sheila Foster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/45f074cf-2581-45ff-bc85-5877ba57b29f/placemaking+handbook.jpg Episodes - Democracy of Public Space - Part One - Make it stand out Placemaking Handbook - Dr. Cara Courage https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/evolution-of-bids monthly 0.5 2026-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/3e9d8e79-9f23-4e33-973d-619493f6aee5/Michael+and+Kathleen.jpg Episodes - The Evolution of B.I.D.’s - Make it stand out Dr. Christine Brooks Talks with Chip about the science of friendship and the importance of expressive arts in community building. https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/cara monthly 0.5 2026-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/d0b85068-0f98-4906-92d3-d3f74ad62168/CAra.jpg Episodes - Cara Courage - Trauma-Based Placemaking - Make it stand out Dr. Christine Brooks Talks with Chip about the science of friendship and the importance of expressive arts in community building. https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/chamber monthly 0.5 2026-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/420fdef4-02e5-4fe1-aee7-a7dfc82dd8fb/SB-+Chamber.jpg Episodes - Small Block - US Chamber of Connection - Make it stand out Dr. Christine Brooks Talks with Chip about the science of friendship and the importance of expressive arts in community building. https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/molly monthly 0.5 2026-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/b8fcf0ed-42c2-4681-826e-e593aa652cdb/Molly.jpg Episodes - The Emotion of Place - Molly Alexander - Make it stand out Dr. Christine Brooks Talks with Chip about the science of friendship and the importance of expressive arts in community building. https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/pico monthly 0.5 2026-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/d03f3232-8292-4279-8ebe-efd70a502169/SB+-Pico.jpg Episodes - Small Block - PICO - The District Dog - Make it stand out Dr. Christine Brooks Talks with Chip about the science of friendship and the importance of expressive arts in community building. https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/shane monthly 0.5 2026-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/4ceecdbc-e376-4461-aff3-0762b62033e7/Shane.jpg Episodes - Community Safety - with Shane Zahn - Make it stand out Dr. Christine Brooks Talks with Chip about the science of friendship and the importance of expressive arts in community building. https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/susan-hughes monthly 0.5 2026-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1777852205717-1XVYTFCZVUNQXVJJZV5X/SB+-walking+w+J+%281%29.jpg Episodes - Small Block - Jane Jacobs for the Young Reader - Make it stand out Dr. Christine Brooks Talks with Chip about the science of friendship and the importance of expressive arts in community building. https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/anastasia monthly 0.5 2026-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1777232770056-PQYZOO512XO48HINQEV2/Anastasia.jpg Episodes - Anastasia Sukhoroslova - Make it stand out Dr. Christine Brooks Talks with Chip about the science of friendship and the importance of expressive arts in community building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/967a7c24-665d-4b72-86ab-3757e715f521/Slow+%28600+x+400+px%29.jpg Episodes - Anastasia Sukhoroslova - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/tamika-butler monthly 0.5 2026-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1776023085150-7RCK8JLY1GKFT3WVUA7P/Tamika+Butler.jpg Episodes - tamika l. Butler - In a thoughtful and deeply human conversation, tamika l. butler reflects on what it means to build systems that serve people over time. From transportation justice and community trust to the role of joy in public life, Tamika offers a powerful reminder that better systems don’t emerge overnight. They require patience, courage, and a belief that the work of making cities more equitable is always worth doing—even in difficult times. The conversation touches on experimentation in transportation, good community engagement that isn’t project specific, and preparing for, and leveraging, the 2028 Olympic and Para-Olympic games The episode also travels to the Philippines where Abra, rides jeepneys and local for-hire vehicles, with the help of a young local named Jovan. Through conversations with drivers and riders, the episode explores a transportation system built from the ground up: improvised, adaptive, deeply personal, and woven into daily life. What begins as a story about jeepneys becomes something larger—a reflection on how movement, culture, economics, and global forces all intersect in the systems that carry us. From linking postwar necessity with opportunity, to today’s modernization pressures and fuel costs shaped by events far beyond Dumaguete, The episode explores how transportation systems come to be, and who is involved with shaping them. tamika l butler Brian Taylor UCLA Tracing the mobility experiences of youth in Westlake, Los Angeles Ciclavia Comparing the L.A. Mobility Wallet and Low-Income Fare is Easy (LIFE) Programs http://www.jsadikkhan.com/ https://shade-la.com/seleta-reynolds/ https://www.metro.net/riding/ambassadors/ https://www.metro.net/2028games/ Jay Pitter - Black Public Joy Jay Pitter on Sidewalk Ballet https://filipeanut.art/the-jeepney-a-history-and-hopefully-a-future/ https://changing-transport.org/change-has-come-for-the-philippine-jeepneys/ https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/retail-roundup monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1774288780802-FQTYLAGSBADUW35RRDXY/Retail+Round+up+%281%29.gif Episodes - Retail Roundup - Retail is often treated as a category—something to optimize, disrupt, or replace. But long before it was an industry, exchange was one of the original reasons cities existed at all. In this episode, we explore how retail is evolving on the ground—and why it still matters for the health of our streets and downtown districts. Guest host Josh Yeager is joined by retail strategist Michael Berne and storefront expert Jaime Izurieta for a wide-ranging conversation that blends big-picture thinking with real-world insight. From dwell time and the growing importance of hospitality, to the realities of what makes a storefront succeed, this episode stays rooted in how retail actually works today. And throughout the conversation, a deeper idea keeps surfacing: Even as retail changes, its role in shaping how we experience cities hasn’t gone away. Michael J Berne Consulting Website: www.consultmjb.com Speaking / Writing Website: www.michaeljberne.com Retail Contrarian Blog: https://michaeljberne.com/articles-essays/ Jaime Izurieta https://storefrontmastery.com/ https://storefrontmastery.substack.com/ Josh Yeager https://www.bright-brothers.com/ Additional Links Conrad Kickert https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/health-and-families/coffee-shops-starbucks-dunkin-hipster-b2936556.html strategic horizons Union Square sf International Downtown Association https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/evan-weissman monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1773123931649-8YZ90M09D62J2VG7BO1F/Evan+Weisman+%281%29.jpg Episodes - Evan Weissman - To close out Season One of The Sidewalk Ballet, we turn to a conversation about showing up. Across cities everywhere, civic engagement has become increasingly distant — shaped by professionalized systems, complex processes, and a sense that participation is reserved for those who already know how to navigate it. For many people, the question isn’t whether they care about their city, but whether there is a meaningful way to be involved. In this season finale, Chip sits down with Evan Weissman, founder of Warm Cookies of the Revolution, to explore what civic life can look like when the invitation is wider, more human, and rooted in joy. For more than a decade, Warm Cookies has created spaces where people can engage with public issues not as experts or insiders, but as neighbors — lowering barriers, building confidence, and reminding people that participation is something you practice, not something you earn. The conversation touches on civic engagement as a skill that strengthens with use, the importance of local spaces as places to try, learn, and belong, and the role of humor and play in making participation feel possible again. The episode closes with a reflection on the season as a whole, weaving together voices and ideas from across twelve episodes to arrive at a shared understanding: cities are shaped not just by plans and policies, but by the people who show up for them. Civic life works best when more people see themselves as part of it. Warm Cookies of the Revolution Big Creative Consulting Erika Chong Shuch https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/breonna monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1771871133312-14BFN5JDT0EC1A4HIIYI/Breonna+McCree+%282%29.jpg Episodes - Breonna McCree - San Francisco’s Tenderloin has always been more than its headlines. Long treated as a containment zone, it has also been a refuge — a place where marginalized communities found belonging, built culture, and made public life possible in spite of neglect, oppression and disinvestment. In 1966, that history erupted inside a cafeteria at Turk and Taylor. The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot is often told as a single night of resistance. But like most movements, it began long before that moment — and it didn’t end there. Today, the site of that uprising is owned by one of the largest private prison contractors working with ICE. Which raises a complicated question: what does it mean to honor a place if you don’t control it? In this episode, Chip speaks with Breonna McCree, Co-Director of San Francisco’s Transgender District, about what it means to move from being tolerated in a neighborhood… to claiming it. The conversation weaves together history, policy, art, and activism to explore how cities remember — and who gets to decide what stays. The Transgender District is a formally recognized cultural district in the Tenderloin, created to honor, protect, and sustain a neighborhood that has long been a center of transgender life, community, and resistance. Breonna and Chip explore what a district actually is and does, how this particular place came to be named, and why formal recognition matters, how neighborhoods carry history long before they’re officially acknowledged, and what it takes to turn lived experience into lasting civic infrastructure. Transgender District Susan Stryker Compton’s Cafeteria Riot Tenderloin Museum Screaming Queens Tenderloin Community Benefit District Glide Memorial Crossroads of Turk and Taylor Comptons x Coalition TurkxTaylor Initiative Miss Major SF Black Wall Street https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/lezlielowe monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1774748584148-TGZCS3JOOYSJ8T29WVWO/lezlie-lowe+%282%29.jpg Episodes - Lezlie Lowe - In this episode of The Sidewalk Ballet, Chip is joined by Lezlie Lowe, journalist and author of No Place to Go, for a wide-ranging conversation about one of the most essential—and most ignored—elements of city life: public bathrooms. What begins as a seemingly simple question about access quickly unfolds into a deeper exploration of gender equity, disability access, public health, privatization, and dignity in public space. Drawing on research and reporting from cities around the world, Lezlie traces how historical decisions, cultural norms, and policy gaps have shaped who gets to move freely through a city—and who has to plan their day around the nearest restroom. Along the way, the conversation touches on gender parity and the “urinary leash,” access for unhoused neighbors, the absence of legal requirements for cities to provide public toilets, and the growing role of private businesses and BIDs in filling a public gap. From Tokyo’s carefully designed public restrooms to Vienna’s human-centered approach and San Francisco’s Pit Stop program, this episode reframes bathrooms not as an afterthought, but as a powerful lens for understanding how cities care for the people who use them. We also Visit Portland Maine and talk with Cary Tyson about Portland Downtown’s Public Bathroom Master Plan. Plus we grab a burger in a converted Bathroom with Curious Claire. Lezlie Lowe Portland Maine - Restroom Master Plan Curious Claire - Would you eat from a Converted Toilet? London Loo Tours Bowl Plaza - Lucas Kansas Hundertwasser Toilets - New Zealand Tokyo Toilet Project https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/christine-brooks monthly 0.5 2026-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1769490850749-HDOZPCB9Y3E3A5I6R9AT/christine-brooks-pod+%284%29.jpg Episodes - Dr. Christine Brooks - Dr. Christine Brooks is the founding chair of the Masters in Expressive Arts Coaching and Community Building, a new program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, that blends creativity, leadership, and social impact. With a background spanning coaching, the arts, and community practice, she and her colleagues designed the program to prepare students to meet the challenges of our time — cultivating leaders who can navigate complexity with imagination, empathy, and resilience. Through this innovative curriculum, Dr. Brooks helps students explore how artful approaches to leadership can strengthen communities, deepen collaboration, and foster personal and collective transformation. Her work is rooted in the belief that coaching and community building are not separate disciplines but intertwined practices essential for justice, wellness, and belonging. Dr. Brooks talks with Chip about coaching in the expressive arts, community leadership and the science of friendship. Also in this episode: We talk with Leva Zand from ARTogether, a small but powerful organization based in downtown Oakland that works with immigrant and refugee communities through art-making. Founded in response to moments of fear and exclusion, ARTogether creates spaces where people can gather, make things together, and build connection without pressure or performance. From open community sessions to youth programs and public art projects, their work treats art not as an end product, but as a shared practice—one that helps people feel seen, supported, and connected in a world where belonging is often contested. Expressive Arts Coaching and Community Building Arts and Health Role of Arts in Health and well being - WHO report Neuroarts Blueprint Science of Friendship Effortless City ARTogether Eventbrite Trends https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/jt-mudge monthly 0.5 2026-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1768250641828-8F1Y4WV7CP8NOIHQNWIR/JT-Mudge-pod+%287%29.jpg Episodes - JT Mudge - As a new year begins, we take a moment to look at the future. This episode features two fascinating conversations. First we talk with Futurist JT Mudge about how understanding changes helps us imagine, design, and prepare for the cities of tomorrow. Then Seattle based historian, Feliks Banel, highlights how the lense through which we imagine a future can shape the world of tomorrow. JT Mudge is an award-winning futurist passionate about sustainability, ethics, and ancestral futures. He holds a masters of science in foresight from the University of Houston, where he is an adjunct professor teaching foresight and change theory. He currently serves as a Senior Strategic Foresight Advisor for The United Nations Development Programme. The ideas and opinions JT expresses in this conversation are his own, and do not necessarily reflect The University of Houston, the UNDP, or any other organization JT is affiliated with. Feliks Banel is a Seattle-based historian, radio producer, and longtime contributor to public radio, where he specializes in Pacific Northwest history and civic memory. His work often explores how major moments—like the 1962 Century 21 Exposition—continue to shape the identity, culture, and physical landscape of Seattle today. JT Mudge United Nations Development Programme Metropolis The Toynbee Convector Feliks Banel - Cascade of History Seattle Worlds Fair Downtown Seattle Association https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/josh-yeager monthly 0.5 2026-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1766947952401-ENETUKRG10V4G52H6FM3/first+four+%282%29.jpg Episodes - Josh Yeager - In this New Year’s episode of The Sidewalk Ballet, Chip sits down with Josh Yeager — a deeply thoughtful placemaker and one of the most generous champions of this work — to talk about what he’s seeing on the ground right now. Not in theory, but in real places, with real people. Josh brings a wide lens shaped by years of practice and support for others doing this work, helping surface the patterns, tensions, and quiet shifts that don’t always make headlines — but that say a lot about where cities are headed. That conversation sits within a broader reflection on the Sidewalk Ballet season so far. Drawing from conversations with guests including Karen Christensen, Jay Pitter, Nate Storring, Kady Yellow, Majora Carter, and others, this episode translates big hopes for our cities into everyday practices — the small, local actions that actually shape community. Josh Yeager Starkey Strategies Streets Department FIFA Cities https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/mara-mintzer monthly 0.5 2026-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1774748769283-QRZ97I6C2R3TJ2MCAVID/mara-mintzer-pod+%284%29.jpg Episodes - Mara Mintzer - Cities are often shaped by experts, policy, and process. But what happens when young people are trusted to help lead the work? In this episode of The Sidewalk Ballet, we explore what cities can become when youth are treated not as voices to consult, but as collaborators to trust. Part One: Child-Friendly Cities, with Mara Mintzer We begin in Boulder, Colorado with Mara Mintzer, co-founder and Executive Director of Growing Up Boulder, a nationally recognized leader in youth civic engagement and child-friendly city practices. Mara challenges a core assumption of city-building: that children are future citizens, rather than current ones. Through partnerships with city departments, schools, and community organizations, Growing Up Boulder has helped young people shape master plans, parks, transportation systems, and public spaces across the city. Mara is also co-author of Placemaking with Children and Youth: Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities, a practical guide for youth-centered civic engagement. Part Two: Youth-Led Libraries of the Future — NYC The second half of the episode shifts to New York City and a team of fellows from the Urban Design Forum’s Forefront Fellowship Program. Through a six-month, youth-centered research project, the team explored a simple but powerful question: What could a library be if young people helped design it? Working with teens across Manhattan and Brooklyn—including at the High Line and the Free Black Women’s Library in Bed-Stuy—the team built a process grounded in trust, collaboration, and care. A Shared Thread Across Boulder and New York, a common lesson emerges: youth don’t just offer opinions — they offer clarity. They help us see cities not as systems to manage, but as places to belong. This episode is an invitation to rethink who we listen to, how we design, and what becomes possible when we trust young people to help shape our shared spaces. Important Links https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/jay-pitter monthly 0.5 2026-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1774749011089-U8TH3BE31IGG11XH8MYN/jay-pitter-pod+%284%29.jpg Episodes - Jay Pitter - Urban planner, author, and placemaker Jay Pitter, MES joins The Sidewalk Ballet to talk about her forthcoming book Black Public Joy: No Permit or Permission Required. Through her award-winning practice, Jay has shaped national city-building conversations and led equity-based projects across North America. Her work begins with one radical premise: that public joy is not a luxury, but a human right. Jay challenges us to reimagine how cities are built, governed, and experienced. Together, we’ll explore how Black joy operates as both resistance and restoration; how the spaces we design can either stifle or sustain belonging; and what it takes to create a civic culture rooted in care, connection, memory and shared delight. jaypitter.com Black Public Joy evas.ca https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/kady-yellow monthly 0.5 2026-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1763435819486-03BPT5TM2BB2H4XCEYE9/kady-yellow-pod+%283%29.jpg Episodes - Kady Yellow - Kady Yellow is an international Placemaking expert who has been activating public spaces since 2010, when she first discovered the power of collaboration among governments, communities, and the cultural sector to create vibrant, people-centered cities. In this Episode, Chip and Kady discuss her path, teachers and lessons that brought her to the work she is doing in Jacksonville, Florida, as the Vice President of Placemaking and Events for Downtown Jax. Kady shares her strategies for connecting citizens to civic life and reducing barriers, both for residents and municipalities, allowing for a greater sense of ownership and belonging in the places she - and fellow Florida residents work. https://www.placemaking.life Downtown Vision How to bring your city to life | Kady Yellow | TEDxJacksonville Cara Courage DJ Larry Love Eric Liu - Citizen University Submersible Embankment Project Zarni deVette https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/nate-storring monthly 0.5 2026-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1761331386401-AMG2O1ZU87WF5QLGFH17/nate_storring_pod.jpg Episodes - Nate Storring - Nate Storring is the Co-Executive Director of Project for Public Spaces, where he helps shape the organization’s strategy and leads its work in placemaking, communications, and development. Over the years, he’s been a driving force behind PPS’s publishing and research—including How to Turn a Place Around and new explorations of inclusive placemaking that expand how we think about belonging in public life. In 2025, Nate is helping steer PPS through its 50th anniversary—a milestone that invites both reflection and re-imagination: fifty years of creating people-centered places, and a future that centers justice, connection, and resilience. In this conversation, Nate talks with Chip about his own path into placemaking, the legacy and evolution of PPS, and the passing of co-founder and placemaking pioneer Kathy Madden—just days before the interview. Together they explore how our understanding of public space has changed over five decades, what still holds true, and how the next era of place will be defined by the complex realities of place governance and the ever-shifting boundaries between public and private space. Also in this episode, Abra Allan revisits an innovative exploration into coexistence in public spaces developed in 2020 by SPUR and Gehl. Episode Links https://www.pps.org/people/nathan-storring http://www.nathanstorring.com/ https://www.placemakingweek.org/ https://www.urbanspacegallery.ca/ https://www.spur.org/publications/spur-report/2021-01-25/coexistence-public-space https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/majora-carter monthly 0.5 2026-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1759907302278-WPTBF4C65QXXU3UG3W1M/Majora-Carter-pod+%282%29.jpg Episodes - Majora Carter - Majora Carter is one of the most visionary voices in urban revitalization today. A real estate developer, strategist, and Peabody Award–winning broadcaster, she has redefined what it means for communities to shape their own futures. From her groundbreaking work in the South Bronx to her national platform as an advocate for environmental justice and economic empowerment, Majora has spent her career challenging the idea that low-status neighborhoods are destined to remain so. She is the author of Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One, a book that reframes neighborhood development as a pathway for residents to build prosperity where they already live. On The Sidewalk Ballet, Majora brings her trademark insight and candor to questions of community, resilience, and ownership. Our conversation explores how places—and the people who steward them—can unlock dignity, opportunity, and power in the face of daunting challenges. This episode is a compelling look at what it takes to not only reimagine our neighborhoods, but to reclaim them. Also in this episode, Abra Allan sits down with the Tinicsh Hollins and Gwen Brown of SF Black Wall Street, a grassroots organization working to preserve and strengthen San Francisco’s Black community through three powerful tenets — home ownership, business ownership, and Black spaces. Together they talk about the rebuilding of 1921, a “third place” for creativity, entrepreneurship, and dialogue that embodies both resilience and hope. The conversation explores what it means to reclaim place in a city where belonging itself can feel endangered—and how economic empowerment can become a foundation for cultural survival. https://majoracartergroup.com/ https://www.sfbwsfoundation.org/ https://boogiedowngrind.com/ https://lahainacommunitylandtrust.org/ https://ebprec.org/ https://homeboyindustries.org/ https://www.sfaaacd.org/ https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/karen-christensen monthly 0.5 2026-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/8677e84a-ad4f-4b48-8930-d8df0e488105/karen-christensen-pod+%282%29.jpg Episodes - Karen Christensen - As we kick off the sidewalk ballet - a project dedicated to understanding cities and strengthening community - There is really no better place to start than at the neighborhood cafe, or the corner pub. Karen Christensen is an author, publisher, and community leader whose work spans culture, sustainability, and the power of networks. As the founder of Berkshire Publishing Group, she has long championed ideas and institutions that strengthen communities. Her forthcoming book, written in collaboration with Ray Oldenburg, revisits and reimagines the concept of the “third place” for today’s world. On The Sidewalk Ballet, Karen shares her perspective on why third places matter now more than ever. Our conversation explored themes of loneliness and isolation, the distinction between third places and public spaces, and the importance of creating space for conversation, plus her work on the encyclopedia of community. This episode will open the series with both depth and urgency, offering fresh insight from one of the voices carrying the legacy of The Great Good Place into a new century. 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Designed by Rahul Kadri and IMK Architects, the approximately 450-meter trail opened to the public in March 2025, returning access to a landscape that had been fenced off and largely inaccessible for decades. The project grew from Kadri's personal connection to the forest, which he explored as a child and rediscovered during the pandemic. Rather than clearing conventional paths through the landscape, the design lifts visitors above the forest floor on a narrow elevated structure that bends around existing trees, minimizing disturbance to the ecology while offering a rare experience of walking within the canopy of one of the world's densest cities. But the Forest Trail is also a story about how public projects come into being. It wasn't commissioned through a traditional client brief. Kadri developed the idea, worked with local residents and civic organizations to build support, and ultimately partnered with Mumbai's municipal government to make it possible. The result is both a piece of infrastructure and an act of reclamation: transforming a long-inaccessible natural asset back into public space while attempting to preserve the wild landscape that had survived behind the fence. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/imk monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/d3050035-936f-43ea-8757-05a2ba2e7e36/imk.png Field Guide - IMK Architects - Founded in 1957, IMK Architects is an Architectural, Urban Planning and Interior Design firm based out of Mumbai and Bengaluru. Over the last 50 years we have stood by our aim to do extraordinary work, and are committed to take this legacy forward in future Our design philosophy is based on Biophilic Architecture. Our focus and commitment is to provide designs, which are site sensitive and emphasize on being in harmony with nature. We ensure designs provide vibrant and warm spaces, which are socially responsive where people thrive and activities flourish. Our collaboration with the client is much deeper to develop the project brief and carries forward till the execution of the project. We are constantly questioning our belief and strive to make our buildings serve the users beyond their expectations. Led by a core team of experienced Architects the firm follows a rigorous design process to achieve their goals. The firm expertise's in various segments ranging from Healthcare, Hospitality, Educational Campuses, Institutions, Self Redevelopment, Residential Townships and more. We also undertake Engineering Co-ordination, Tender Documentation and provide Site Supervision. Reputed Engineering firms associate with us for preparation of Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Air-conditioning, Environmental Control and Landscaping Designs. Today, with over five decades of experience and 150 executed projects across India and overseas, the firm has a host of repeat clients like the Taj Group, JSW Energy, Symbiosis Society, Club Mahindra to name a few. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/template-by9ts monthly 0.5 2026-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/3aad500b-15db-4011-9e3b-102c851254b5/Rahul.jpeg Field Guide - Rahul Kadri - Mr. Rahul Kadri is Principal Architect & Partner at I.M.Kadri Architects. The conversation with Mumbai architect and urban planner Rahul Kadri began with a bridge. The Malabar Hill Forest Trail winds for nearly half a kilometer through a patch of urban forest that had been inaccessible to the public for decades—a place Rahul first explored as a boy with his dog, and rediscovered during the pandemic. His idea for an elevated walkway through the trees created a way to return the forest to the city while protecting the ecology that made it extraordinary. But the bridge quickly led us somewhere bigger. Rahul's work is grounded in a lifelong relationship with nature, from his childhood in Mumbai to his school years exploring the forests of the Kumaon Himalayas. That relationship has evolved into a broader way of thinking about cities: access to nature and public space, community involvement and agency in planning, new approaches to housing and density, and even how the places we build can be designed to encourage friendship and connection. We also talk about another kind of bridge. Rahul inherited a significant architectural legacy from his father, I. M. Kadri, one of the important architects of post-independence India. We explore how Rahul has carried that legacy forward while evolving the practice around his own ideas about ecology, participation, collaboration, and the role of the architect. What begins with one remarkable piece of infrastructure becomes a conversation about something much larger: how we create cities where both people and nature can thrive—and who gets to participate in creating them. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/molly-alexander-by2l8 monthly 0.5 2026-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/ec4c932d-784b-4f5d-93e2-13588d828e1c/molly+Alexander.jpeg Field Guide - Molly Alexander - Molly Alexander was featured on Episode 17 in a conversation about what she calls R.O.E., or Return on Emotion. I first heard Molly speak on this topic at the California Downtown Association Conference in Long Beach in March 2026 and immediately knew I wanted to continue the conversation on Sidewalk Ballet. Our experience of the world is deeply emotional, yet many of the metrics we use to evaluate places have little to do with how those places make us feel. Does a block bring you joy? Does a bookstore or café create a sense of belonging? Does a neighborhood inspire trust? Molly argues that if we want to understand the true value of a place, we need to pay more attention to the emotional outcomes it creates. The conversation expands beyond placemaking and into civic life through a companion interview with Chris Murphy of the Santa Cruz Warriors, exploring the role local sports play in creating shared identity, collective memory, and civic emotion. The episode concludes with a retelling of "The Catch" from the 1982 NFC Championship Game, inspired by David Talbot's writing and brought to life by original music from Peter Koht. Together, these stories ask a simple question: How does our experience of places make us feel—and why does that matter? https://www.sidewalkballet.com/episodes/molly https://molly-alexander.com/about-molly/ Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/jeepneys monthly 0.5 2026-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/753bb177-6f7d-47be-bb9c-053c0b9e3c50/Tribels-Jesus-jeepney-with-anak-ti-abra-design-in-Cubao.webp Field Guide - The jeepney: a history, and hopefully, a future - Filipinos seem to have a love-hate relationship with the jeepney. First, they’re affordable, and routes are accessible. They not only move people, but they carry with them a piece of history and an onslaught of Filipino creativity. Many are colorful and vibrant, personalized by their owners to reflect where they come from, their families, and/or their religion. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/ciclavia monthly 0.5 2026-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/be6ea37d-50ef-406d-80c5-779291f341e4/2010_timeline-img-2048x1357.webp Field Guide - CicLAvia - CicLAvia is a Los Angeles nonprofit that temporarily transforms city streets into car-free public spaces where people can walk, bike, roll, play, and experience their communities in a different way. Inspired by Bogotá’s Ciclovía, the first CicLAvia took place in 2010; since then, more than 1.8 million people have explored nearly 379 miles of open streets across Los Angeles County. More than a recurring street festival, CicLAvia uses these temporary transformations to demonstrate what streets can become when people rather than cars take priority. Its work connects active transportation and public health with community, local businesses, sustainability, and the simple joy of experiencing Los Angeles at a human pace—turning familiar transportation infrastructure, if only for a day, into shared public space. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/social-life-of-sidewalk monthly 0.5 2026-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/9fd8ef16-0fff-4448-a067-19d3b2f7d108/la+map.jpg Field Guide - The social life of the sidewalk - Abstract - Although many young people travel independently in the city, transportation research seldom considers the experiential qualities of their routes, focusing instead on the functional aspects of mode choice. More in-depth understanding of how adolescents experience, negotiate, and perceive everyday mobility can support informed design, policy, and planning interventions to make these journeys safer and more enjoyable. This study explores the mobility experiences of 28 youth aged 11 to 15 as they travel to after-school activities in Westlake: a dense, underserved Los Angeles neighborhood. We use the concept of ‘sidewalk ecologies’ to investigate the spatially-situated social and material features that shape mobility experiences, and employ a range of interdisciplinary, youth-centered, mobile methods including thick mapping and walk-along interviews. We uncover how youth negotiate travel through adaptation rather than avoidance, how they develop agency to travel without supervision, and how social and material conditions create a lack of continuity between safe and enjoyable spaces. These insights inform design and programmatic interventions to enhance mobility for young pedestrians; five propositions for urban planners and designers include tending to the social determinants of safety, reinforcing familiar routes, and demonstrating care for people and place. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/tamika-butler monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/bf9a8997-9239-4ca5-a50f-39fdb898d275/tamika+bike.jpeg Field Guide - tamika l. butler - tamika l. butler (she/her or they/them) is a doctoral student in Urban Planning at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs. Her research employs a critical race, historical, legal, and policy-based approach to examine how transportation policy and infrastructure have been used to segregate, isolate, and prevent the mobility of Black and other historically oppressed groups of people. Prior to pursuing her PhD, tamika consulted, wrote, and spoke as a national expert on issues related to public policy, the built environment, equity, anti-racism, diversity and inclusion, organizational behavior, and change management. She transitioned to policy work after litigating for three years as an employment lawyer at Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center. tamika has a diverse background in law, community organizing and nonprofit leadership. tamika received her J.D. from Stanford Law School, and received her B.A. in Psychology and B.S. in Sociology in her hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. She lives in Los Angeles with her wife and kids. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/mjb monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/aedb0ec2-cd0f-4aad-817a-429da1e366c0/mjb.png Field Guide - MJB Consulting - MJB Consulting is a retail planning and real estate consulting firm focused on helping downtowns, commercial districts, developers, and communities understand what makes retail environments work. Based in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area, the firm approaches retail as more than a collection of shops and restaurants: because it occupies the ground floor and meets people directly at the sidewalk, retail plays an outsized role in how a street, district, or community is experienced. Led by Michael Berne, MJB helps clients navigate the complicated realities of contemporary retail—assessing markets, identifying realistic tenants and concepts, and developing strategies that respond to changing consumer behavior while supporting lively, economically viable places. Its work sits at the intersection of real estate, planning, economic development, and the everyday experience of the street. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/storefron-mastery monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/ccab117a-7cec-4053-8dad-3f1dadd59992/storefront+mastery.jpeg Field Guide - Storefront Mastery - Storefront Mastery works with downtown organizations, local governments, and independent businesses to turn storefronts into active contributors to the life and economic health of their districts. Founded by Jaime Izurieta, its approach treats the storefront not simply as the entrance to a business, but as the place where commerce meets the public realm—and where design, storytelling, hospitality, and customer experience can help give a street its identity. Through district strategy, business coaching, design guidance, and practical tools, Storefront Mastery helps communities strengthen existing businesses, address vacant or underperforming storefronts, and build local capacity for longer-term revitalization. At the center of the work is the idea that memorable downtowns are built one storefront at a time, by local businesses that become both destinations and hosts for their communities. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/jaime-izurieta monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/a20b93fc-989e-4fa0-84bd-1d1d2080fc45/Jaime.png Field Guide - Jaime Izurieta - Jaime Izurieta is an architect, designer, urban development consultant, and founder of Storefront Mastery, where he works with downtown organizations and small businesses to rethink the relationship between storefronts, sidewalks, and thriving local economies. His work treats the ground floor of the city as a critical piece of public life—exploring how design, hospitality, placemaking, and the everyday choices of small businesses can turn streets from places of transaction into places where people want to spend time. Jaime joined Michael Berne and guest host Josh Yeager on The Sidewalk Ballet for a conversation about the changing role of retail, from dwell time and experiential storefronts to the larger question of why commerce continues to play such an important role in how we experience cities. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/michael-berne monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/2fc6c2e9-ce88-42af-8d0a-1d689843b08d/MJB.jpeg Field Guide - Michael Berne - What can I say about Michael Berne. If you ever get a chance to see Michael present, it’s always extremly informative, insightful and entertaining. His “Retail Contrarian” blog is a must read for anyone interested in the world of retail. He joined us on Episode 13 “Retail Round-up” with Jaime Izurieta, guest hosted by Josh Yeager Consulting Website: www.consultmjb.com Speaking / Writing Website: www.michaeljberne.com Retail Contrarian Blog: https://michaeljberne.com/articles-essays/ Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/vote-every-day monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/052d86db-557a-427e-b8ad-399ea7f7ea21/vote+everyday.jpeg Field Guide - Vote Every Day - Vote Every Day explores what it means to be Civic and how regular people can use their power to keep or create the communities they want. It is the product of over a decade of artistic community engagement and we’re thrilled to finally have it available for you! Vote Every Day is short and lighthearted (it’s a cardboard book-like the ones you read to babies) and we are so thankful to have versions in 8 different languages. We offer this book at a “pay what you can” donation so that we can be as equitable as possible and get this book into as many hands as we can. We put a lot of hard work into it: Writing, illustrating, editing, designing, translating, printing, and shipping it. We hope you appreciate this model as much as we appreciate you donating and supporting us. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/tax-day monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1615ca8f-5e05-4c7e-9ca3-632536ea9073/WCR_banner-Tax-Day-Carnival-wide-2048x853.jpg Field Guide - Tax Day Carnival - In theory, Tax Day should be a celebration of our moral choices in action. In reality, it most definitely is not! So, we’re throwing a Carnival on Tax Day… Bring the whole family to see Acrobats, Stilt-walkers, Belly Dancers, Hula Hoopers, Jugglers, Ice Sculpture, Magicians and Mentalists.Get your face-painted while learning a thing or two about different perspectives on taxation. Why do we have taxes? What sort of choices do we make when we pay them? How are taxes related to morality? Are they? Learn about where local tax money goes, who makes those decisions, tax resistance, and take part in our Penny Poll to decide where our tax priorities should be. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/warm-cookies monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/7af705f7-416a-4f07-8eed-77b31291cf59/cookies.jpeg Field Guide - Warm Cookies of the Revolution - We create live events, video series, board books NOT for babies, collaborating with everything from circus freaks, lowrider car clubs, comedians, mariachis, food battles, and truly anything that gets regular people to connect and have a say in the decisions, storytelling, and culture work of their community. We work with residents to take crucial, boring, heated, or otherwise challenging issues and make sure that they are as accessible and disarming and engaging as possible, for people who are least likely to show up and take part, so that they have a say in their own history, present, and future. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/evan-weissman monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/98b73afe-cf36-4fee-b7a0-4f2461a4d451/evan+w.jpeg Field Guide - Evan Weissman - Evan Weissman is the founding executive director of Warm Cookies of the Revolution, a Civic Health Club that blends innovative arts and culture with crucial civic issues. Prior to founding Warm Cookies of the Revolution, he spent 12 years as a company member of the collaborative Buntport Theater Company, who the Denver Post called “Monty Python’s anarchist grandchildren,” winning over 100 awards as playwright, director, designer and actor. Warm Cookies of the Revolution have created over 200 unique arts-based civic programs, including the nationally recognized multi-year Participatory Budgeting project called “THIS MACHINE HAS A SOUL.” Evan was recently selected as a 2019 Roddenberry Fellow for innovative activism as well as a 2019 Livingston Fellow from Bonfils-Stanton Foundation. He was awarded the 2019 Colorado Governor’s Award for Creative Leadership and the 2018 Parr Widener Civic Leadership Award from the Denver Foundation. Evan was Denver Commissioner for Cultural Affairs in 2017 and Creative in Residence at the Denver Art Museum in 2015. Evan teaches courses on the foundations of radical nonviolence at The Colorado College. He was a Kellogg Foundation Leadership for Community Change Fellow with Mi Casa Resource Center for Women and founding organizer of Colorado Bend The Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Social and Economic Justice. Evan lives in Denver with his wife Kristin and their kids Ezra Huck and Tavi Scout. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/breonna-mccree monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/170a47c4-3770-497f-a665-8e20950d81bd/Breonna.jpeg Field Guide - Breonna McCree - Breonna McCree is Co-Executive Director of The Transgender District in San Francisco. She leads groundbreaking programs focused on economic empowerment, public safety, and wellness for trans and TGNC communities. With over a decade of experience in community health and advocacy, Breonna is a powerful voice for equity, healing, and trans liberation. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/susan-stryker monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/070bdd13-6904-4249-a48c-99ffcc591c62/susan+Stryker.jpeg Field Guide - Susan Stryker - Susan Stryker is a historian, author, filmmaker, activist, and scholar whose work has helped shape the study and understanding of transgender history and culture for more than three decades. Her historical research, theoretical writing, media-making, activism, and academic field-building have been instrumental in establishing transgender studies as a recognized field of scholarship. She retired from the University of Arizona as Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies in 2020 and has since held a distinguished visiting appointment at Stanford University’s Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Stryker is the author of Transgender History, a widely used introduction to the political and cultural history of transgender communities in the United States, and co-director, with Victor Silverman, of the Emmy Award-winning documentary Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria. The film helped recover the history of a 1966 uprising by transgender women and queer people at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco’s Tenderloin—one of the earliest documented acts of collective queer resistance to police harassment in the United States. That history is inseparable from the story of San Francisco’s Transgender District, the subject of this Sidewalk Ballet conversation. The District encompasses the Tenderloin neighborhood where the Compton’s Cafeteria uprising took place and works to preserve and build upon the cultural legacy of a neighborhood that has long been home to transgender people, particularly trans women of color. Stryker, who lives in San Francisco, has played an important role in recovering the history that helps us understand why this particular piece of the city matters. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/transgender-district monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/24860814-6760-4142-a909-c80817ce131d/tgd.png Field Guide - The Transgender District - Originally named after the first documented uprising of transgender and queer people in United States history, the Compton’s Cafeteria Riots of 1966, the District encompasses 6 blocks in the southeastern Tenderloin and crosses over Market Street to include two blocks of 6th Street. In 2016, the City of San Francisco renamed portions of Turk and Taylor to commemorate the historic contributions of transgender people, renaming them “Compton’s Cafeteria Way” and “Vikki Mar Lane” respectively. This urban region of the city’s Tenderloin District has held a documented, ongoing presence of transgender residents since as early as the 1920s- with the Tenderloin known as a “gay ghetto” during the 1930s to the 1960s- prior to the birth of the internationally renowned Castro District in San Francisco. This area is home to the city of San Francisco’s first LGBT bar, and various community spaces, gathering sites, and hotels with cultural significance for the broader transgender and queer community in the Tenderloin. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/glide monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/0db05c53-90b4-4afb-8ede-28be641c0086/glide.jpeg Field Guide - Glide Memorial - GLIDE is a nationally recognized center for social justice, dedicated to fighting systemic injustices, creating pathways out of poverty and crisis, and transforming lives. Through our integrated comprehensive services, advocacy initiatives, and inclusive community, we empower individuals, families, and children to achieve stability and thrive. GLIDE is on the forefront of addressing some of society’s most pressing issues, including poverty, housing and homelessness, and racial and social justice. GLIDE’s mission is to create a radically inclusive, just, and loving community mobilized to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization. Our Core Values emerge from GLIDE as a spiritual movement. They are rooted in empowerment, recovery, and personal transformation. Our values inspire and guide our behaviors. They are the ground we stand on. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/comptonsxcoalition monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/a9cd3235-fcc3-49ee-92b3-f1553f1aa27c/compton%27s+co.jpeg Field Guide - Compton’s x Coalition - Compton’s x Coalition is a community campaign working to reclaim and protect 111 Taylor Street in San Francisco—the former site of Gene Compton’s Cafeteria and the 1966 uprising that became a landmark in transgender and queer resistance. Today, the building is operated by GEO Group, a private prison company and ICE contractor, an especially stark contradiction given the site’s history. The Coalition is organizing to remove GEO Group from the property, prevent its continued use for incarceration, and place the site under permanent community stewardship through a Community Land Trust. Its larger vision is to transform 111 Taylor into a hub for culture, care, and belonging, centering trans, immigrant, Indigenous, and justice-impacted communities while preserving Compton’s legacy as a living site of resistance rather than simply a marker of history. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/tenderloin-museum monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/b3fe5346-3b8b-43f6-a3e8-f39dde9e07b3/TL+Museum.jpeg Field Guide - Tenderloin Museum - The Tenderloin Museum celebrates the rich history of one of San Francisco's most misunderstood neighborhoods. The 31 blocks of the Tenderloin district are the beating heart of the city peopled by immigrants and iconoclasts, artists and activists, sinners and saints. Visit the Tenderloin Museum today and encounter a kaleidoscopic American city in all its grit and glory. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/tlcbd monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/bcba2e50-b573-4b7c-9c58-453d55c6d03c/tlcbd.png Field Guide - Tenderloin Community Benefit District - The Tenderloin Community Benefit District (TLCBD) is a nonprofit organization working to strengthen San Francisco’s Tenderloin as a vibrant, welcoming community for everyone who lives, works, visits, or spends time there. Funded primarily through assessments on neighborhood property owners, TLCBD combines the day-to-day work of neighborhood stewardship—street cleaning, safety programs, parks and public spaces, and events—with advocacy, economic opportunity, community leadership, and efforts to build neighborhood pride. Central to its approach is an unusually expansive definition of who belongs in the neighborhood: TLCBD explicitly includes people experiencing homelessness among its “neighbors” and grounds its work in connection, respect, responsibility, and courage. In a district too often defined from the outside by its challenges, the organization emphasizes the Tenderloin’s people, history, culture, and existing sense of community as assets on which to build. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/screaming-queens monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/690078b8-dc7c-497c-99e0-4ee0da4da814/screaming.jpg Field Guide - Screaming Queens - Screaming Queens is a 2005 documentary directed by Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman that recovers the largely forgotten story of the 1966 uprising at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco’s Tenderloin. The film combines archival material, historical research, and interviews with people who lived in the neighborhood to reconstruct a moment when transgender women, drag queens, hustlers, and other queer residents fought back against persistent police harassment—three years before the Stonewall uprising in New York. More than a film about a single night of resistance, Screaming Queens documents the community that existed around Compton’s and the conditions that made the uprising possible. In doing so, it helped bring the event back into public memory and establish the Tenderloin’s significance in transgender history—a legacy that would later become central to the creation and identity of San Francisco’s Transgender District. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/comptons monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/383030a6-7e66-475b-afe6-bb6a7a518ccf/comptons.jpeg Field Guide - Compton’s Cafeteria Riots - In 1966, three years before Stonewall, the Tenderloin district of San Francisco became the stage for one of the first acts of organized LGBTQ+ resistance in the United States. The queens and transgender women who gathered at Compton’s Cafeteria weren’t just meeting for a meal—they were building community and finding strength in their shared struggles. When police harassment pushed them too far, they took a stand. Their bravery sparked a riot that changed the course of LGBTQ+ history. This is the story of their resilience, their defiance, and their fight for the right to exist. Written by Collette LeGrande, Donna Personna, and Mark Nassar Directed by Ezra Reaves Produced by Tenderloin Museum Join us for an immersive theatrical experience that brings this groundbreaking moment to life. Witness the courage, hear the voices, and be inspired by a legacy of resistance that continues to shape our world today. Will you take a seat at the table and see history unfold? Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/mark-nassar monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/860a9d19-442b-4bee-a8c9-3302f8afa1ce/nassar-headshot-990x536.webp Field Guide - Mark Nassar - Mark Nassar is an actor, playwright, screenwriter, producer, and pioneer of immersive theater, best known as the co-creator of Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding, the long-running Off-Broadway comedy in which he originated the role of Tony. His career has spanned theater, film, writing, and producing, with a particular affinity for performances that collapse the distance between audience and story. Nassar conceived The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot after encountering the history of the 1966 uprising at San Francisco’s Tenderloin Museum. Drawing on his decades of experience in immersive theater, he developed the story as a site-specific theatrical experience that brings audiences into the world of Compton’s Cafeteria and the transgender women, drag queens, hustlers, police officers, and neighborhood characters who inhabited the Tenderloin at the time. Rather than simply recounting the riot as history, the production invites audiences to experience the people, tensions, and community that surrounded a pivotal—and for many years largely forgotten—moment in San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ history. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/kate-robinson monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/ad3cb208-3758-4c2f-8d69-42981f983751/Kate+Robinson.jpeg Field Guide - Kate Robinson - Kate is proud to be the CEO of TLCBD, where she has served in a leadership role for over a decade as a Board member, as the founding Program Director of Safe Passage, and as a Senior Director – building community in a neighborhood she loves. Kate has been a nonprofit leader for over 20 years and holds an BS in Nonprofit Administration, and an MS in Organizational Development. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/katie-conry monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/85b863f9-243f-49cf-aea6-50dec78c7435/Katie+Conry.jpeg Field Guide - Katie Conry - Katie Conry has served as the Tenderloin Museum’s Executive Director since 2016. When TLM opened its doors in July 2015, Conry served as its Program Director with a dynamic vision for neighborhood-centric, diverse programs that bring people together from all walks of life. As Executive Director, Katie has cemented TLM’s identity as a destination for community-based, historically-inspired arts programs. In 2018, she led TLM’s premiere of two major, critically-acclaimed performance projects: The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot play and the Tender aerial dance with Flyaway Productions. Katie has also held positions at the California Academy of Sciences, the Exploratorium, and the Contemporary Jewish Museum. In 2012, she helped fundraise to save Mission neighborhood gem Adobe Books, created its events department, supported the gallery's transition to nonprofit status, and served on the Board of Directors for three years. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology and American Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/cary-tyson monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/7d28048c-7e83-493d-8ef1-b09082f8fec8/cary-tyson.jpeg Field Guide - Cary Tyson - Cary Tyson serves as the Executive Director of Portland Downtown, a 501c4 organization that works to stimulate a thriving, vibrant and sustainable downtown community. Prior to moving to Maine, he worked across Arkansas in the fields of downtown revitalization and historic preservation. He was a 2020 America Walks Walking College Fellow and is a veteran of the US Air Force. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/lootours monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/a73622c5-6bbe-477c-8cfa-1a46213664ed/london+loo.jpg Field Guide - London Loo Tours - Prepare to be immersed (metaphorically, that is!) in a world where the humble toilet becomes a portal to explore history, anthropology, art, architecture, identity, and of course, our sense of humour. From the earliest latrines through to the future of flushing your guide will take you on a whirlwind tour through the history of Britain’s public toilets, with plenty of interesting sights and practical tips along the way. You’ll answer all the questions you never knew you had… How did the Romans wipe their bottoms? Was there really a man named Thomas Crapper? How long will you spend in the smallest room in a lifetime? And why do we even call it a loo? It’s the perfect day out for anyone who likes to dive a bit deeper… lifelong Londoners and first time visitors alike! One thing is for sure: you may never think about a simple visit to the lavatory the same way again! Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/tokyo-toilet monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/15626994-9112-40dc-998a-06e14b4be8f9/tokyo+toilet.jpeg Field Guide - The Tokyo Toilet - Toilets are a symbol of Japan's world-renowned hospitality culture. Public toilets have been redesigned in 17 locations in Shibuya through the vision of 16 world-class creators, making them safe and comfortable for everyone regardless of gender, age, or disability. We invite you to experience the uniquely designed facilities of THE TOKYO TOILET. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/hundertwasser-toilets monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/da5fe9ed-7ff0-464c-b0e0-ab2ebe1d0cf7/hunder+toilet.jpeg Field Guide - Hundertwasser Toilets - Driving through Kawakawa, it's hard not to notice the colourful sculptures, mosaics, copper and cobblestones of the town's public toilets. Like nothing you've ever seen before, golden orbs perch on the grass tuft roof of this truly unique public washroom. Austrian architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser lived in Kawakawa from the mid-'70s to his death in 2000 and gifted the toilets to the town. Be warned - he didn't like using straight lines, so this might be one of the most fascinating designs you encounter! Kawakawa is also the only town in New Zealand that is home to a railway track through the middle of town. Created during the coal mining days, you can take a ride the train today - it's called the Bay of Islands Vintage Railway. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/bowl-plaza monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/a8530e44-71c8-4965-983d-ea12285583d2/Screenshot+2026-08-21+at+10.23.06%E2%80%AFPM.png Field Guide - Bowl Plaza - The architectural concept began with a practical need and a dream. Lucas needed a handicapped accessible public restroom. It is designed and built to fit the character of the visionary, grassroots, recycled environments exhibited throughout Lucas. Artists Mri-Pilar & Eric Abraham, staff and community incorporated mosaic materials, utilizing colored bottles, broken pottery, dishes, tiles, toys and mirrors in the mosaics that cover the restroom walls. The restroom entrance, a spectacular 16 ft mosaic oval lid, is designed to be enjoyed from both the interior and exterior of the building. It features repurposed glass bottles, travel plates, quotations, hubcaps, tail lights, license plates, dishes, etc. The curved seating is in front of the building forms the bowl. The 6 foot toilet bowl drain is an Eric Abraham original porcelain sculpture, depicting swirling water with items that people have accidentally dropped into a toilet bowl. Local businesses, citizens and visitors have donated recycled bottles/materials. Thousands of volunteer hours have been given to help create this unique public art sculpture. Donations are always welcome to help with daily operating expenses. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/curious-claire monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/80bf931d-58b4-48d9-9b44-c3d9ccf3d56d/Claire.jpg Field Guide - Curious Claire - Claire Salter, better known as Curious Claire, is a London-based travel writer and blogger with a particular affection for the quirky, unexpected, and easily overlooked things that give places their character. Through Curious Claire, she writes about travel, food and drink, unusual attractions, and the discoveries that come from exploring a city beyond its obvious destinations. Her curiosity extends, somewhat delightfully, to public toilets—both those still serving their original purpose and those that have found surprising second lives. Her piece on Berlin's original Burgermeister, a beloved burger stand built into a former public toilet beneath the Schlesisches Tor U-Bahn station, brought her into the Sidewalk Ballet conversation about what happens to public restrooms when cities no longer use them as public infrastructure. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/portland-maine monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/6d390efa-1506-457d-ad19-ba18f5f00791/Portland+Maine.jpeg Field Guide - Downtown Portland Maine - BIO or Overview Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/pm-restrooms monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/e7adfefc-fbd4-4d03-8d18-7de0ec6a6151/Screenshot+2026-08-21+at+10.06.33%E2%80%AFPM.png Field Guide - Portland Maine Public Restroom Master Plan - Developed by Portland Downtown, the Public Restroom Master Plan for Downtown Portland makes the case that public toilets aren't simply an amenity, but essential urban infrastructure. Drawing on community input and Portland's experience with existing facilities, the plan connects restroom access to walkability, public health, tourism, economic vitality, aging, accessibility, dignity, and inclusion. It calls for more—and better located—facilities, clear wayfinding, strong maintenance and staffing, universal and gender-inclusive access, and treating public restrooms as a basic part of planning for a welcoming downtown. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/no-place-to-go monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/7a828421-f94a-47e3-94c4-91f5b5b39b00/NoPlaceToGo.png Field Guide - No Place To Go - How Public Toilets Fail our Private Needs This book is Number One in addressing the politics of where we’re allowed to go in public. Adults don’t talk about the business of doing our business. We work on one assumption: the world of public bathrooms is problem- and politics-free. No Place To Go: How Public Toilets Fail our Private Needs reveals the opposite is true. No Place To Go is a toilet tour from London to San Francisco to Toronto and beyond. From pay potties to deserted alleyways, No Place To Go is a marriage of urbanism, social narrative, and pop culture that shows the ways — momentous and mockable — public bathrooms just don’t work. Like, for the homeless, who, faced with no place to go sometimes literally take to the streets. (Ever heard of a municipal poop map?) For people with invisible disabilities, such as Crohn’s disease, who stay home rather than risk soiling themselves on public transit routes. For girls who quit sports teams because they don’t want to run to the edge of the pitch to pee. Celebrities like Lady Gaga and Bruce Springsteen have protested bathroom bills that will stomp on the rights of transpeople. And where was Hillary Clinton after she arrived back to the stage late after the first commercial break of the live-televised Democratic leadership debate in December 2015? Stuck in a queue for the women’s bathroom. Peel back the layers on public bathrooms and it’s clear many more people want for good access than have it. Public bathroom access is about cities, society, design, movement, and equity. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/lezlie-lowe monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1ccad2fd-53d6-4291-8ed7-3ab333fc420b/Lezlie-Lowe.jpeg Field Guide - Lezlie Lowe - Lezlie Lowe is an author, journalist, strategist, and consultant whose work explores urbanism, gender, public life, and the places where the personal and political intersect. A longtime observer of cities and the ways people experience them, she is particularly interested in the everyday systems and spaces that are often overlooked—until they fail to meet our needs. Her book No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs uses the humble public bathroom as a lens into much larger questions about who cities are designed for and whose needs are treated as legitimate. Looking at the history, politics, design, and chronic shortage of public toilets, Lowe explores how access—or the lack of it—affects women, parents and children, older adults, unhoused people, people with disabilities, and anyone whose body doesn't conveniently conform to the assumptions built into public space. The result is a funny, deeply human examination of something universal that cities have nevertheless struggled to treat as essential civic infrastructure. Across her work, Lowe has a knack for starting with the ordinary and revealing the larger systems hiding inside it: how seemingly mundane aspects of everyday life can expose questions of access, dignity, gender, power, and our collective responsibility for the public realm. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/christine-brooks monthly 0.5 2026-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/96c489da-e7e0-44fe-8546-5d139c7024e8/christine+brooks.jpg Field Guide - Dr. Christine Brooks - Christine Brooks, PhD is the Chair of the MA in Expressive Arts Coaching & Community Building at California Institute of Integral Studies as well as a coach at Ignite Your Potential. An educator and practitioner with over 30 years experience integrating creativity and self-awareness practices into her own work and in supporting the work of others. She believes that our capacities for interaction and connection are our greatest commodities. Learning how to nurture the vital skills of social and emotional intelligence is the key to interconnection. She works with individuals and groups to harness the power of befriending actions and behaviors to enhance individual & team success. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/template-z2wdf monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/d03bdf59-9eb9-4555-821a-02c997754c24/Screenshot+2026-08-21+at+6.17.12%E2%80%AFPM.png Field Guide - Effortless City - Effortless City creates inclusive neighborhood and sidewalk guides designed around a simple idea: knowing where you want to go isn’t enough—you also need to know what it will take to get there. Designed for walkers, rollers, and strollers, its guides document the details conventional maps often leave out, including steps, ramps, sidewalk conditions, terrain, restrooms, and potential obstacles. A color-coded system helps people understand the level of effort required block by block and choose routes and destinations that work for their own abilities, energy, and circumstances. Alongside its sidewalk guides, Effortless City highlights local businesses, music, events, and other neighborhood experiences. The result is less a conventional accessibility map than a tool for making exploration itself more accessible—giving more people the information they need to navigate a city with confidence and spontaneity. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/expressive-arts-coaching monthly 0.5 2026-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/9933491c-d4b0-43b7-b155-15b3fba6e732/Screenshot+2026-08-21+at+1.14.07%E2%80%AFAM.png Field Guide - Expressive Arts Coaching & Community Building - Expressive Arts Coaching & Community Building is a pioneering program that integrates collaborative, liberatory creative practices with coaching and facilitation to inspire individual and collective transformation. Graduates acquire a unique foundation that encourages their practice and professionalism as credentialed coaches, expressive arts facilitators, and leaders in the field. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/template-e2rxj monthly 0.5 2026-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/44443c53-269f-494b-841c-dc5c50ecef2a/artogether.png Field Guide - ARTogether - ARTogether’s mission is to provide art programs that foster compassionate communities where refugees and immigrants can flourish We envision a world where there are no barriers—or borders—to art and creative expression, where everyone is welcomed and their stories have impact. Art plays a special role in the refugee community. For refugees and immigrants moving to the United States, the journey has just begun. ARTogether offers programs that reach out to refugees and immigrants, providing welcoming, creative spaces for local refugees and immigrants to connect with their community. Our goal is to build communities and promote long-term prosperity for refugees and immigrants, even after assistance from initial government and NGO resettlement programs has ceased. For these programs, art is our social glue, its universality binding us all together. It invites conversation, laughter, storytelling and a sense of belonging. At the community level, it has a unique ability to bring people together, to draw together people from different backgrounds and forge connections through creativity and self-expression. Finally, art transcends the spoken word, allowing people to communicate and express themselves without the burden of language barriers. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/template-mxh25 monthly 0.5 2026-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/95606da4-9bf4-4f90-a4fe-b1c659be9a86/Leva+Zand.jpeg Field Guide - Leva Zand - Leva Zand is an Iranian-American conceptual artist, organizational development advisor, and human rights advocate. She is most notably recognized as the founder and former Executive Director of ARTogether, a prominent Oakland-based nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering community, healing, and belonging for refugees and immigrants through the creative arts. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/jt-mudge monthly 0.5 2026-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/277622d4-28f7-4557-b9aa-0196ab3ac99b/jt+mudge.jpeg Field Guide - JT Mudge - JT is an award-winning futurist passionate about sustainability, ethics, and ancestral futures. I have a masters of science in foresight from the University of Houston, where I am also an adjunct professor teaching foresight and change theory. With 25 years experience in consulting and strategy with organizations such as US CDC, UNDP, The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, WildAid, Samsung, Apple, and more. Being a consultant, I have had the privilege of working in many sectors ,and bring my depth AND breadth of experience and skills to each engagement. Foresight and futures studies allows us to explore what is possible. It gives us the vision to anticipate what could be around the next corner. Most importantly, it gives us the tools to not just anticipate, but to create better futures that are more sustainable, inclusive, equitable, and resilient. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/molly-alexander-wh2ga-8halc-tcn2s monthly 0.5 2026-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/970d1a0c-b93d-414d-bcb8-6d90b04fd230/feliks+banel.jpeg Field Guide - Feliks Banel - I had interviewed JT Mudge, a futurist, who had recently worked with planners from some of the worlds largest cities on a forcasting workshop, exploring futures of cities. I wanted to do a companion story looking at how we thought about the future of cities in the past. That inquiry led me to the Worlds Fair, and ultimately to my friends at the Downtown Seatle Partnership. They introduced me to Feliks. We had an incredible conversation about the Fair, the space race and Seattle. In actuality, we had two conversations. I had some technical difficulties at the beginning of our call. Once I finally got them worked out, I forgot to start recording again. Fortunately he was gracious enough to give me a do over and it was even better the second time. It turned out to be a great companion for episode 8, plus I posted the full conversation as well. https://www.space101fm.org/program/cascade-of-history/ Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/cj monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/c205726e-4097-40df-891e-6c33b35af772/carol.png Field Guide - CJ - When I was growing up, my Mom often told stories about skipping class and going to the ‘64 Worlds fair in Flushing Meadows. To hear her tell it, she was in Queens for most of her senior year of High school. Apparently Dad, who was one year older, was working in the Air Force as an MP (Military Police) and he was stationed there. Mom Lived in East Providence. Most of the stories are about who she could or couldn’t convinced to come with her, how she got in trouble or talked her way out of trouble and generally how much better an education she got at the Fair than had she stayed in school. Once in a while she would talk about things she say at the Fair, like the Video Phone (can you imagine?!?) and houses run on solar energy. It’s hard to know how regular of an occurrence it was for her to go. It was over a three hour bus ride, and I’m pretty sure tickets weren’t akin to lunch money. However many times she went, whether in real life or in her imagination, it gave her a life time of stories, and I inherited her love of the Worlds Fair Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/seattle-worlds-fair monthly 0.5 2026-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/d43bd36f-134f-4fa0-8d95-0505536038e1/Seattle+WF.jpg Field Guide - Seattle Worlds Fair 1962 - The 1962 World's Fair was the brainchild of City Councilmember Al Rochester and planning began far in advance. In 1957, Seattle voters passed a $7.5 million Civic Center bond for possible fairground development, which was matched by the state legislature. The Century 21 Commission secured certification as an official World's Fair from the International Bureau of Expositions. Congress passed Senate Bill 3680 in August 1958, establishing a Federal Commissioner to coordinate ways in which the federal government could participate in the Fair, including issuing of invitations to foreign nations and appropriating funding for buildings. The U.S. government contributed over $9 million, primarily to build the NASA-themed U.S. Science Exhibit, now the Pacific Science Center. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/undp monthly 0.5 2026-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1787298447597-MFU0ZWGPJU5OUD65PMXG/undp.jpeg Field Guide - United Nations Development Programe - UNDP works in about 170 countries and territories, helping to eradicate poverty, reduce inequalities and exclusion, and build resilience so countries can sustain progress. As the UN’s development agency, UNDP plays a critical role in helping countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/cascade-of-history monthly 0.5 2026-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/fd3d804a-5503-43e0-ab11-d989812bd3f3/Cascade+of+History Field Guide - Cascade of History - Cascade of History is the only live radio program devoted to Pacific Northwest history, featuring interviews with interesting people doing cool things with and for history, historic preservation, museums, parks, shipwrecks, lost treasures, old highways, and other special places and things around the “Old Oregon Country” – Washington, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/template-g354n monthly 0.5 2026-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/317583af-97df-433b-bc9d-5f0a3244cf5a/metropilis.webp Field Guide - Metropolis - Shaping the future of the world's metropolis Metropolis, the World Association of Major Metropolises, provides innovative solutions to the critical challenges facing large metropolitan areas. It serves as a global hub where large cities can connect, share solutions and mobilize on issues related to sustainability, social cohesion, metropolitan governance, future planning and gender equality. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/newyears26 monthly 0.5 2026-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/cf0841e9-28ff-42e1-a3c5-42302f4c9c7e/sb+resolutions.jpg Field Guide - New Years 2026 - BIO or Overview Links https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/351dc15e-8128-47ef-8d1e-a28f4a1e2c0c/sb+resolutions+back.jpg Field Guide - New Years 2026 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/conrad-benner monthly 0.5 2026-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/7c7a8323-3555-492b-8f1c-d3d6d5038bc0/conrad.png Field Guide - Conrad Benner - Streets Dept - Conrad Benner is the Founder/Editor of StreetsDept.com. A Fishtown, Philadelphia born-and-raised documentarian, curator (Streets Dept Walls and Mural Arts Philadelphia), and podcaster (Streets Dept Podcast), Conrad’s work explores the art of our public spaces and the artists who create it. Founded as a photo-blog in January 2011, Streets Dept has grown into a multi-platform showcase of Philadelphia public art and public space. We discover and celebrate commissioned and non-commissioned art on the streets and in the public spaces of Philadelphia. And sometimes we also curate it! We believe deeply that the public space has a profound effect on us as individuals and on our city as a whole, and our purpose is to explore how all of us build and use public spaces creatively. You can find our work here on the blog, across social media (Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Threads), on our Patreon, in our publications, on our monthly walking tours, and, of course, on the streets. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/starkey monthly 0.5 2026-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/44d39dd6-93b1-42b7-a337-7ef61cdbc9fc/Screenshot+2026-08-18+at+10.30.17%E2%80%AFPM.png Field Guide - Starkey Strategies - Starkey Strategies is a boutique strategic consulting firm that provides consulting services for business improvement districts and urban and rural destinations, nonprofits, governmental entities, corporations and startups around the United States. Starkey Strategies focuses on strengthening and building communities and relationships between various community stakeholders through strategic planning, communications, community relations, and management consulting. At Starkey Strategies we believe in the power of relationship, collaboration and connection- all which can be achieved through communication and messaging. Success with our clients creates healthy and dynamic businesses that impact the well-being of their towns, cities and regions around the world. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/bright-brothers monthly 0.5 2026-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/8658ac46-88c7-4a6d-9c9e-d7b8d10b0717/bbsg.jpeg Field Guide - Bright Brothers Strategy Group - Bright Brothers Strategy Group is a people-first, data-driven consultancy that works with cities, districts and DMOs on strategic planning, marketing, and placemaking. From connecting with your constituents and target audiences, to mapping out customer journeys and strategic touchpoints that drive tangible results, to human-centered placemaking initiatives, Bright Brothers Strategy Group is on the cutting edge of the intersectionality between urban planning, vibrant places and economic impact. We've worked with dozens of downtowns and districts around the country, and understand that every community starts with one thing: people. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/josh-yeager monthly 0.5 2026-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/3793fcc8-267b-4459-b7c8-dc09e5dabdf7/Bright-Brothers-Strategy-Group-Josh-Yeager-6-Cropped-uai-1165x873.jpeg Field Guide - Josh Yeager - Josh Yeager is a founder and principal at Bright Brothers Strategy Group and has been an active champion of the Urban District Place Management world and a vocal advocate for great places and great people. Josh has been a guest and a guest host on Sidewalk Ballet and brings a depth and breadth of experience in making great places. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/ida monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/a2e29679-1e52-454d-a981-ac5450750e3b/IDA+Logo.png Field Guide - International Downtown Association - The International Downtown Association (IDA) is the leading global membership organization for people and organizations working to manage, strengthen, and shape downtowns, city centers, and other urban districts. Founded in 1954, IDA represents the growing field of urban place management—the network of downtown associations, business improvement districts and areas (BIDs and BIAs), alliances, partnerships, public agencies, and other organizations working at the intersection of the public, private, and community sectors. IDA connects practitioners across cities to share knowledge, research, strategies, and lessons from the day-to-day work of making urban places function. Its work spans economic development, public-space management and operations, planning and design, marketing and events, organizational leadership, and policy and advocacy. Through conferences, professional development, research, peer networks, publications, and advocacy, IDA provides an infrastructure for a profession whose practitioners are often responsible for everything from cleaning streets and activating public spaces to supporting businesses, addressing social challenges, and helping communities navigate larger questions about the future of their city centers. At its heart, IDA is a network of people whose work happens at the scale of the district and the street: the place where policy, economics, design, culture, management, and everyday urban life meet. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/free-black-womans-library monthly 0.5 2026-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/41efbd3a-b184-4ec0-b470-186241483118/FBWL1.png Field Guide - Free Black Woman’s Library - The Free Black Women’s Library is a social art project that features a collection of over 5000 books written by Black women and Black non-binary writers, a free store, a period pantry, a virtual Reading Club, a weekly book swap, and a wide array of workshops and free public programs. We are a literary hub, social site, Black Feminist archive, and community care space in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. We invite you to read, write, work, rest, dream, and learn in this space. We invite you to attend our art and writing workshops, film screenings, performances, readings, book signings, teach-ins, story time sessions, and critical conversations. https://www.thefreeblackwomenslibrary.com/ https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/high-line-fellows monthly 0.5 2026-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/2d410351-3b82-4e17-a9c0-e9085120d8b4/Screenshot+2026-08-18+at+2.21.12%E2%80%AFPM.png Field Guide - High Line Fellows: Emerging Leaders Program - The High Line Fellows: Emerging Leaders Program is a three-year, paid youth development program for those in their sophomore year of high school through senior year. Fellows gain leadership skills, explore careers, and prepare for college and beyond—with a starting pay of $18/hour. This opportunity is more than just their best first job experience: Fellows get a one-of-a-kind hands-on learning opportunity that draws from the High Line’s core strengths, building their confidence as leaders while connecting with peers and professionals across New York City. https://www.thehighline.org/emergingleaders/ https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/zine-archive monthly 0.5 2026-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/3aec8b20-070c-4f83-9f57-542dfde39239/Screenshot+2026-08-18+at+2.29.07%E2%80%AFPM.png Field Guide - Zine Archive - An open-source zine archive A public collection of zines and themes for a teen-centered library, which can be used as a tool for library design and advocacy. Developed as part of Urban Design Forum’s forefront fellowship. Zine Archive Gallery https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/youth-led-libraries-of-the-future monthly 0.5 2026-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/bad9f219-a308-4d7d-af24-28aa0888c5aa/Design-Guidelines-Poster-1-1365x2048.jpg Field Guide - Youth Led Libraries of the Future - Make it stand out https://urbandesignforum.org/initiative/free-to-grow/youth-led-libraries-of-the-future/ https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/child-friendly-cities monthly 0.5 2026-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/529f5f24-b4d7-4b1b-82a6-49ae05423112/Child+Friendly+Cities+logo Field Guide - Child Friendly Cities Initiative - The Child Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI) is a UNICEF-led initiative that supports municipal governments in realizing the rights of children at the local level using the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as its foundation. It is also a network that brings together government and other stakeholders such as civil society organizations, the private sector, academia, media and, importantly, children themselves who wish to make their cities and communities more child-friendly. The initiative was launched in 1996 by UNICEF and UN-Habitat to act on the resolution passed during the second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) to make cities liveable places for all. The wellbeing of children is the ultimate indicator of a healthy habitat, a democratic society and of good governance. UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/child-friendly-map monthly 0.5 2026-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/56667806-b7e7-4e4c-9a6e-840bdc77049a/child+map.jpg Field Guide - Child Friendly Map - In 2019, Growing Up Boulder embarked upon a year-long process to co-create the nation's first, printed, bilingual, child friendly city map. We did so with almost 800 children and families, half of whom were from underrepresented populations. In May 2019, GUB published the first edition of the printed, bilingual, free map. In October 2019, we published the second edition of the printed map. In September 2019, GUB published a digital version of the child friendly city map. The digital child friendly city map features even more locations than the printed map, and it offers child friendly walking routes, biking routes, transit links, and child-created interactive map games. Finally, in December 2019, GUB published a digital teen friendly city map (targeting ages 11-18); this map was created by a team of University of Colorado Masters of the Environment students as their capstone project, under GUB's supervision. The Masters students worked with more than 400 teens to co-create the map. Growing Up Boulder's Child and Teen Friendly City Maps seek to educate and inspire children, families, and community organizations through the creation of maps co-created with young people and their families to highlight their favorite locations in Boulder. They promote the values of inclusion, diversity, community engagement, collaboration, and celebration. By working with young people and their caregivers at their schools, homes, libraries, and out-of-school programs, we aim to reach a wide cross-section of Boulder's population. To learn more about the map-making process, visit this page. Where to find the printed maps Free printed maps are now available at locations such at the Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Visitors' Center on the Pearl Street Mall, Chautauqua, recreation centers, Gateway Fun Center and more. https://www.growingupboulder.org/gubmap-376474.html https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/placemaking-for-children-and-youth monthly 0.5 2026-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/5fcc2f31-c5ea-441b-8b06-9660e4a33794/Screenshot+2025-12-14+at+1.18.40+PM.png Field Guide - Placemaking for Children and Youth - An illustrated, essential guide to engaging children and youth in the process of urban design From a history of children’s rights to case studies discussing international initiatives that aim to create child-friendly cities, Placemaking with Children and Youth offers comprehensive guidance in how to engage children and youth in the planning and design of local environments. It explains the importance of children’s active participation in their societies and presents ways to bring all generations together to plan cities with a high quality of life for people of all ages. Not only does it delineate best practices in establishing programs and partnerships, it also provides principles for working ethically with children, youth, and families, paying particular attention to the inclusion of marginalized populations. Drawing on case studies from around the world—in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, Puerto Rico, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the United States—Placemaking with Children and Youth showcases children’s global participation in community design and illustrates how a variety of methods can be combined in initiatives to achieve meaningful change. The book features more than 200 visuals and detailed, thoughtful guidelines for facilitating a multiplicity of participatory processes that include drawing, photography, interviews, surveys, discussion groups, role playing, mapping, murals, model making, city tours, and much more. Whether seeking information on individual methods and project planning, interpreting and analyzing results, or establishing and evaluating a sustained program, readers can find practical ideas and inspiration from six continents to connect learning to the realities of students’ lives and to create better cities for all ages. NYU Press https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/mara-mintzner monthly 0.5 2026-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/5e78e804-8afe-4315-a678-266f43e7cf6d/mara.jpeg Field Guide - Mara Mintzner - Mara Mintzer helped found Growing Up Boulder (GUB) in 2009. A passionate advocate for child-friendly cities, Mara presents and writes internationally on the topic of engaging young people in inclusive community planning and development. Her expertise in engaging children and youth in meaningful ways to shape their own cities is requested by government and community organizations around the world. In 2017, Mara delivered one of the most successful TedX Talks on the importance of urban planning with kids, accumulating almost 2 million views. She continues to be inspired by seeing the positive impact that planning equitable communities has on everyone. Mara also loves creating innovative community resources, like the nation’s first child and teen friendly city map. Prior to GUB, Mara was Director of Belle Haven Community School in California, where she oversaw child and family support services families on an underresourced school campus. She has designed and implemented a wide variety of programs for underrepresented children, families and neighborhoods in New York and California. Mara received her B.A. in Psychology from Brown University and her M.A. in Organizational Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University. In her free time, Mara loves to cook, spend time with her family, and to immerse herself and learn about other cultures while traveling the globe (she speaks Spanish and French). Make it stand out Growing Up Boulder Mara’s TED talks https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/growing-up-boulder monthly 0.5 2026-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/33025095-8700-49c1-a206-03eb054f6100/gub-logo-no-text.png Field Guide - Growing up Boulder - Growing Up Boulder (GUB) is a nonprofit that works to make Boulder and communities around the world better places for children and young people—by giving them a meaningful role in shaping the places where they live. Founded in 2009 as a partnership between the City of Boulder, Boulder Valley School District, and the University of Colorado Boulder, GUB brings young people into planning and design processes that have traditionally been led almost entirely by adults. Through partnerships with schools, government agencies, designers, community organizations, and families, GUB creates opportunities for children and youth to investigate their communities, articulate what they need, and contribute directly to decisions about public spaces, transportation, housing, civic facilities, and other aspects of city life. Its work is grounded in the idea that young people are not simply future citizens or eventual users of cities: they are residents with valuable knowledge and perspectives about the places they inhabit right now. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/urban-design-forum monthly 0.5 2026-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/3b8cb338-e166-4479-9626-f2e3630ddcbc/udf.png Field Guide - Urban Design Forum - The Urban Design Forum (UDF) is a New York–based organization that brings together more than 1,100 people working across design, planning, development, government, advocacy, and civic life to think collectively about the future of the city. For more than four decades, UDF has created a space for people who shape cities—often from very different perspectives—to exchange ideas, develop new approaches, and put those ideas to work in New York neighborhoods. Its work ranges from public programs and policy initiatives to fellowships, international exchanges, and neighborhood partnerships, with a focus on issues including housing, public space, mobility, economic development, public health, and climate. Rather than approaching urban design simply as the design of buildings and spaces, UDF treats citymaking as a collaborative civic practice: connecting the people who design, build, govern, use, and care for the city. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/rajesh-sankat monthly 0.5 2026-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/5e82fee5-62c6-46b2-90da-4d3d529f8d2f/Rajesh-Sankat_bw-400x400.jpg Field Guide - Rajesh Sankat - With roots in Toronto, Canada, Rajesh is a writer, facilitator, and community-centered design practitioner at 3×3 Design. His work sits at the nexus of inclusive design and urban placemaking to translate community insights and aspirations into strategy development, the built environment, and narrative change. Rajesh has had his work and writing featured in AZURE and Afternoon Magazine, and holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Toronto. https://urbandesignforum.org/initiative/free-to-grow/youth-led-libraries-of-the-future/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajeshsankat/ https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/nichole-aquino monthly 0.5 2026-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/61c98dc9-a8cc-4ac2-814f-ac35024f7bb4/Nichole-400x400.jpg Field Guide - Nichole Aquino - Nichole Aquino is an UX Designer and Researcher with a decade of experience working at the intersection of design, technology, and social impact. She has shaped design and strategy for EdTech and CivicTech products, previously working at Newsela, The Mayor’s Office of Economic Opportunity, and Blue Ridge Labs. She loves solving complex problems creatively and collaboratively, creating meaningful user experiences both on- and offline. https://www.nicholeaquino.com/ https://urbandesignforum.org/initiative/free-to-grow/youth-led-libraries-of-the-future/ https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/donelle-wedderburn monthly 0.5 2026-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/aa85b196-2381-4c22-b486-b19a9a7345d6/Donelle-Wedderburn-Headshot-400x400.jpg Field Guide - Donelle Wedderburn - Donelle is a Jamaican-American writer and audio producer. Her work sits at the intersection of Black history, oral storytelling, and the built environment. She has contributed to developing and producing a range of broadcasts and audio documentaries for NPR, ABC News, Food Culture Collective x Heal Food Alliance, and Ten Percent Happier. In her free time, she loves to write poetry and draw connections between literature and landscape. Black women writers like Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, and June Jordan moved through the worlds of storytelling, urban planning, and design and showed me it was possible to do the same. https://www.donellewedderburn.com/ https://urbandesignforum.org/initiative/free-to-grow/youth-led-libraries-of-the-future/ https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/ayana-smith monthly 0.5 2026-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/d9ff688d-087e-4311-a6a7-4327bed3287c/Ayana-Smith-Photo-400x400.jpg Field Guide - Ayana Smith - Ayana Smith is a native New Yorker and experienced youth organizer whose current practice focuses on implementing participatory creative placekeeping projects as a tool to increase public safety in and around public housing developments. She has years of experience mobilizing people into action, researching best practices, and writing policy recommendations for better cities—with emphasis on the role that public education and public schools have on the health of New York City. Prior to her current position, she held leadership positions at Teens Take Charge and Student Voice and has served as a youth advisor for several organizations such as Race Forward. Her work has been featured in publications such as the New York Daily News and presented at conferences such as Grantmakers for Education through the National Public Education Support Fund. https://urbandesignforum.org/author/ayana-smith/ https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/evas monthly 0.5 2026-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/bcd8778c-bd9a-433b-83dd-20766493f97d/Evas.png Field Guide - Eva’s - Eva’s is the second-largest shelter provider for youth in Toronto. Change starts with shelter — and continues with care, connection, and opportunity that reflect the communities we serve. https://www.evas.ca/ https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/hiroshima-peace-memorial monthly 0.5 2026-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/a3fe7609-f40e-4b57-97f5-6d65b0dbc7e0/Hiroshima+.webp Field Guide - Hiroshima Peace Memorial - The Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) was the only structure left standing in the area where the first atomic bomb exploded on 6 August 1945. Through the efforts of many people, including those of the city of Hiroshima, it has been preserved in the same state as immediately after the bombing. Not only is it a stark and powerful symbol of the most destructive force ever created by humankind; it also expresses the hope for world peace and the ultimate elimination of all nuclear weapons. https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/775/ https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/black-public-joy monthly 0.5 2026-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/378f23bf-cd08-48fd-8a27-5ab3ae8730a8/Black+Public+Joy.jpeg Field Guide - Black Public Joy - Black Public Joy is an urgent, deeply researched, and imaginative work from one of North America’s leading public-space experts. Jay Pitter celebrates the audacious, complex, and enduring expressions of Black joy — joy so powerful that even the auction block could not extinguish it — while showing how public space can be designed to foster safety, belonging, and delight for everyone. Drawing from more than a decade of practice creating spaces where joy, justice, and belonging come alive, Pitter situates Black Public Joy within both historical rituals and contemporary movements like #BlackJoy and #BlackOutdoors. She blends storytelling, research, and vulnerable personal narrative to reveal how culture, planning, and memory shape our access to joy in parks, streets, transit, and neighbourhoods. Far more than a book, Black Public Joy is a powerful call to become stewards of one another’s joy and to claim our own — a blueprint for cultivating collective delight and transforming public space into essential urban infrastructure. https://www.jaypitter.com/publishedwork https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/jay-pitter monthly 0.5 2026-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/5987c9f8-c373-4a70-a532-7fa0e986bfc4/jay.jpeg Field Guide - Jay Pitter - Jay Pitter, MES, is an award-winning placemaker and author creating joyful public spaces that foster belonging, prosperity, and cultural memory. She advances this work through cultural planning, policy frameworks, and storytelling—bridging rigor and collective imagination to advance public joy as essential urban infrastructure and a human right. As an adjunct urban planning professor, she has engaged students at Cornell, Princeton, and MIT, advancing new theories of public joy that connect practice, policy, and pedagogy. Her two forthcoming books will be published by Penguin Random House, including Black Public Joy. Beyond her professional roles, Jay is passionate about cultivating everyday joy and inspiring communities to be stewards of one another’s joy—nurturing more harmonious and hopeful cities during these divided times. https://www.jaypitter.com/ https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/submersible-embankment monthly 0.5 2026-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/6ac29ca7-29f8-493d-9719-13581d89cfe9/Sunamganj.png Field Guide - Submersible Embankment Project - Submersible Embankment Project: Community Participation and Placemaking in Sunamganj, Bangladesh https://sites.utexas.edu/internationalplanning/submersible-embankment-project-community-participation-and-placemaking-in-sunamganj-bangladesh/ Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/placemaking-jax monthly 0.5 2026-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/97cea914-175f-483c-8cd8-e7f88bd9d7cc/PlacemakingJax-Sponsored-by-VyStar_RGB_white_white.png Field Guide - Placemaking Jax - PlacemakingJax is Downtown Vision’s award-winning activations initiative, nationally recognized for its collaborative approach to reimagining underutilized spaces in Downtown Jacksonville. Through an open call for ideas and a hands-on placemaking school, the program empowers citizens to participate directly in shaping their downtown. Led by Downtown Vision, this community-driven effort combines top-down funding with grassroots creativity, partnering with local community champions to bring projects to life. By providing permits, funding, and technical support, PlacemakingJax enables pop-up activations in parks, installations in vacant lots, and transformations of empty storefronts. These dynamic projects attract foot traffic, strengthen community connections, and foster a deeper sense of belonging—while also building social capital and creating pathways for self-employment. Supported in part by the annual DTJax Gala each February, PlacemakingJax is helping shape a more connected and engaging urban experience—one public space at a time. More on the principles of placemaking. https://dtjax.com/placemaking-jax/ https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/iffatbakibushra monthly 0.5 2026-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/6b35c23d-73cb-4d51-9c0f-c66ac3027164/Iffat+Baki+Bushra.jpeg Field Guide - Iffat Baki Bushra - Iffat joined us for Episode 4 to discuss a community Based infrastructure project in Sunamganj, Bangladesh. As a Master’s student in Community and Regional Planning at The University of Texas at Austin, Iffat presented a case study of the community’s role in rebuilding a submersible embankment, crucial to the social and economic health of the region. https://www.linkedin.com/in/iffat-baki-bushra-11a43a208/ Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/kady monthly 0.5 2026-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/d4795b4a-3f3c-4755-a972-e502c7c087eb/Kady.jpeg Field Guide - Kady Yellow - The episode with Kady ends with a song. If you know Kady and you have seen the impact she has made on the communities she calls home and the people she calls neighbors, it’s not even a little bit surprising that someone had a song written for her (Pre AI songs, mind you, this was an artist). Kady is the Vice President of Placemaking for Downtown Vision Inc, in Jacksonville Florida where she runs Placemaking Jax and continues to expand access for community members to shape the way they experience places. It was such a pleasure to have her on the show, and to continue to follow the great work she is doing, not just in Jacksonville but advancing the feild of Placemaking. Kady is featured on Eposide 3 Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/coexistence-in-public-space monthly 0.5 2026-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/90f07347-dd92-4343-a00a-c9fe5c1cfd00/coexsistance.png Field Guide - Coexistence in Public Space - As more and more Bay Area residents find themselves without homes, many have defaulted to living in public parks, plazas and squares. These spaces were not designed to be homes, however, and housed users often voice concerns that the presence of unhoused residents renders spaces unwelcoming or even unsafe. SPUR has heard these concerns frequently during our long-term research project on Guadalupe River Park, San José’s largest urban green space. Through a partnership with the urban design firm Gehl and a number of local stakeholders, we began exploring how to best facilitate community dialogue about the challenges that Guadalupe River Park faces around homelessness and safety. Together we established a goal to begin shifting the narrative from: “The park will only be great if there are no homeless people in it” to: “The park will only be great if we design for coexistence.” With this goal in mind, we asked: How might we design and manage public space to allow people of all backgrounds to find joy, belonging and safety there? Out of this work, SPUR and Gehl created the Coexistence Toolkit, a set of public engagement exercises for city agencies, nonprofit organizations and other park stewards to use in public meetings that inform public space projects and master planning efforts. The toolkit consists of a slide presentation and a series of worksheets, both available below. While we developed them for Guadalupe River Park, these tools can be used for any public space. Our report Coexistence in Public Space introduces the toolkit and the thinking behind it. We hope this research provides the foundation for a new way of thinking about park equity and helps facilitate a new type of conversation about access, safety and design within shared public space. https://www.spur.org/publications/spur-report/2021-01-25/coexistence-public-space https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/hyperlocal monthly 0.5 2026-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/5d12a76d-c65f-444f-b966-956dca49a9e6/hyperlocal.webp Field Guide - Hyperlocal - Many of America’s downtowns, waterfronts, and innovation districts have experienced significant revitalization and reinvestment in recent years, but concentrated poverty and racial segregation remain persistent across thousands of urban, suburban, and rural neighborhoods. The coronavirus pandemic magnified this sustained and growing landscape of inequality. Uneven patterns of economic growth and investment require a shift in how communities are governed and managed. This shift must take into account the changing socioeconomic realities of regions and the pressing need to bring inclusive economic growth and prosperity to more people and places. In this context, place-based (“hyperlocal”) governance structures in the United States and around the globe have been both part of the problem and part of the solution. These organizations range from community land trusts to business improvement districts to neighborhood councils. However, very little systematic research has documented the full diversity and evolution of these organizations as part of one interrelated field. Hyperlocal helps fill that gap by describing the challenges and opportunities of “place governance.” https://www.brookings.edu/books/hyperlocal/ https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/the-great-good-place monthly 0.5 2026-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/7463d6f3-7994-4e78-9d5c-a8eba15e9b8b/great+good+place.png Field Guide - The Great Good Place - In the forthcoming The Great Good Place II, Karen Christensen and Ray Oldenburg show how third places have a vital role to play in solving climate change, loneliness, and political polarization – and make us healthier to boot! Explore real-life examples from around the world: bars and bistros, taquerias and teahouses, stoops and saunas, and much more. The authors delve into practical design and economic issues, encouraging readers to create and nurture the special places where, as the song goes, everyone knows your name. This new book is a completely new version of the late Ray Oldenburg’s influential 1989 book that introduced the concept of the third place, written by his long-time correspondent and collaborator Karen Christensen, senior editor of the 4-volume SAGE Encyclopedia of Community. The authors tackle questions like these: Supported by a grant from Mass Cultural Council What is the difference between third places and public spaces? Does a third place have to be free or cheap? Can third places require membership? Do third places need public funding? What design elements help third places thrive? How do you find (or create) a third place? https://greatgoodplace.org/ https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/kathy-madden monthly 0.5 2026-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/d6efdb78-1071-4674-b2be-abdd5c9ab62d/Kathy+Madden.jpeg Field Guide - Kathy Madden - Co-Founder Project for Public Spaces. 1947-2025 Kathy Madden was a prominent urban public spaces expert, placemaking leader, and an environmental designer who began working with PPS, helping to found the organization, in 1975. During this time, Kathy was involved in all aspects of the organization’s work, directing over 300 research and urban design projects and training programs throughout the U.S and abroad. Until 2018, she also served as director of PPS’s Placemaking Training and Public Space Research and Publications programs. Kathy co-authored and wrote both books and articles, including the PPS best-selling publication How to Turn a Place Around, which has now been translated into over 10 languages. She lectured extensively and conducted, in conjunction with other PPS staff, PPS’s How to Turn a Place Around training program in New York. While at PPS, she taught for six years at the Pratt School of Architecture Graduate Program in Urban Design. In 1995, Kathy started the Urban Parks Institute with a $2.2 million grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund. The Institute brought together over 2,000 parks leaders from both the private and public sectors in eight national conferences and four regional workshops. The Institute produced a volume of research and publications related to urban parks, and created a major online resource center for urban parks best practices and research, Urban Parks Online, which attracts over one million page views annually. Chip spoke with Nate Storring of Project for Public Spaces about Kathy’s Legacy, shortly after he passing in Fall of 2025. Episode 3 https://www.pps.org/people/kmadden https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/tinicsh monthly 0.5 2026-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/c93ad171-cf18-4c00-810b-df3f40f67c84/Tinicsh+Hollins+.jpeg Field Guide - Tinicsh Hollins - Bio Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/reclaimingcommunity monthly 0.5 2026-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/35003ba4-3566-41b2-a63c-83ffed287869/reclaiming.webp Field Guide - Reclaiming your Community - "You Don't Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One" Majora is quoted on the walls of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture — which is also the subtitle of her book. The book explores how we can address the problem of persistent poverty in low-status communities differently, and slow down the brain-drain that cripples local economic progress. Just like successful companies have talent-retention strategies, Majora Carter argues that these communities need to do the same. She shows how brain drain cripples low-status communities and maps out a development strategy focused on talent retention to help them break out of economic stagnation. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/spur monthly 0.5 2026-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/924f35a1-1ba6-4c92-b7b9-fc98c4184da3/spur.png Field Guide - SPUR - SPUR — the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association — is a nonprofit public policy organization. We bring people together from across the political spectrum to develop solutions to the big problems cities face. Based in San Francisco, San José, and Oakland, we are recognized as a leading civic planning organization and respected for our independent and holistic approach to urban issues. A project of SPUR was featured in Episode 3 Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/pps monthly 0.5 2026-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/67284f63-d877-4ea2-8ec3-93808e040f9e/pps.png Field Guide - Project for Public Spaces - Project For Public Spaces is the original Public Space Organization. For over 50 years PPS has been a tremendous resource for communities and organizations working to improve spaces for people. Vision We imagine a future where all communities can unlock the power of public space to spark civic and social life, build resilience, and expand economic opportunity. Our Mission Project for Public Spaces co-creates outstanding gathering places with the people who use them every day, and supports public space champions through convening, learning opportunities, and advocacy. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/molly-alexander-4bnm4 monthly 0.5 2026-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/185c0b4f-ecce-4776-83f2-27a9dc353257/nate.jpeg Field Guide - Nate Storring - Nate is Great Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/sfbws monthly 0.5 2026-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/41ad2d36-4250-4aec-8742-b6e96ed5a79c/SFBWS+Foundation Field Guide - SF Black Wall Street - SF Black Wall Street (San Francisco Black Wall Street Foundation) is a non-profit organization co-founded by Tinisch Hollins, Gwyn Brown, and Kenya Bod Austin in 2020 to preserve Black culture, build economic power, and support Black-owned businesses. Mission and Overview Founding: Established during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 by local community organizers responding to displacement and the shrinking Black population in San Francisco. Core Goal: Dedicated to the preservation of Black business, ownership, and cultural spaces, offering advocacy and the Black Millionaire Development Program. Geographic Scope: Headquartered in San Francisco's historic Bayview district, expanding into the broader Bay Area as Bay Area Black Wallstreet (BABWS). [1, 2] Key Projects and Spaces Nineteen-21 Lounge (1921 Lounge): Opened in February 2025 at 1701 Yosemite Ave. in the Bayview. Named in homage to the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, the private members-only social club featured a restaurant, bar, co-working space, and live music. Current Status: After suffering fire damage in June 2025, the lounge temporarily closed, with ongoing permitting and rebuilding efforts underway to restore the community hub. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/bronxlandia monthly 0.5 2026-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/0a7f0c71-e43d-49d0-8c19-03c705fb7f2a/bronxlandia.jpg Field Guide - Bronxlandia - Bronxlandia is a cultural hub and multi-purpose live events venue located at 910 Hunts Point Avenue in the South Bronx, New York City. Created by community developers Majora Carter and James Chase, the space serves as a creative local venue addressing the borough's shortage of dedicated performance spaces. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/gwen-brown monthly 0.5 2026-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/0b8967d5-57e7-4c72-99cb-ea771fcaedab/Gwen+Brown.jpeg Field Guide - Gwen Brown - Bio Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/majoracarter monthly 0.5 2026-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/808a44a2-86b3-47cf-98ec-7a7253834110/majora-carter-pod.jpg Field Guide - Majora Carter - Majora Carter is a real estate developer, urban revitalization strategy consultant, MacArthur Fellow, Peabody Award winning broadcaster, and teaches at Princeton University. She is responsible for the creation of numerous economic developments, technology inclusion projects, green-infrastructure developments & policies, and job training & placement systems. Majora is quoted on the walls of the Smithsonian Museum of African-American History and Culture in DC — which is also the subtitle of her 2022 book, Reclaiming Your Community: "Nobody should have to move out of their neighborhood to live in a better one." Carter applies corporate talent-retention consulting practice to reduce Brain Drain in American low-status communities. She has firsthand experience pioneering sustainable economic development in one of America's most storied low-status communities: the South Bronx, as well as cities across North America and abroad. She and her teams develop vision, strategies and the type of development that transforms low-status communities into thriving mixed-use local economies. In 2017, she launched the Boogie Down Grind, a Hip Hop themed specialty coffee & craft beer spot, and the first commercial "3rd Space" in the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx since the mid-1980s. Majora was born, raised and continues to live in the South Bronx. She is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science (1984), Wesleyan University (1988 BA, Distinguished Alum) and New York University (MFA). After establishing Sustainable South Bronx (2001) and Green For All (2007), among other organizations, she opened this private consulting firm (2008) — which was named Best for the World by B-Corp in 2014. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/karen-christensen monthly 0.5 2026-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/1759820085892-Q1PX2378KQZ03ZEAPOUL/Karen-Christiansen-pod.jpg Field Guide - Karen Christensen - Karen Christensen is an author, publisher, and community leader whose work spans culture, sustainability, and the power of networks. As the founder of Berkshire Publishing Group, she has long championed ideas and institutions that strengthen communities. Her forthcoming book, written in collaboration with Ray Oldenburg, revisits and reimagines the concept of the “third place” for today’s world. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/rob-ready monthly 0.5 2026-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/376d9bbd-23d8-446f-a162-9ca9a516f75c/Rob+Ready.jpeg Field Guide - Rob Ready - Rob is that guy. He knows everyone in the city, and everyone knows him. And it seems, everyone likes him. I like him. When I was putting together the first episode of the Sidewalk Ballet A couple of themes were emerging. I was interviewing Karen Christensen about Third Places, and her forthcoming sequel to Ray Oldneburg’s The Great Good Place. So, as part of the episode I shared my own journey to find my own Third Place in San Francisco. There’s no one better to take as your spirit guide to the neighborhood bars than Rob Ready. The audio was a little rough, but honestly, he gave some great advice, and we had a fine time. Rob is a former owner operator of the legendary Piano Fight Venue in San Francisco, and current Director of Business Engagement for the Mid Market Business Association. Molly Alexander https://www.sidewalkballet.com/field-guide/abra-allan monthly 0.5 2026-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6506989bc7034c4c86a8f71d/c9c7e139-78b4-4ca7-830f-4125a416c9f6/unnamed.jpg Field Guide - Abra Allan - Abra is an accomplished Consultant with over 20 years of experience in project, program, and operations management, in a variety of industries, with a focus in Community Benefit organizations and initiatives. With extensive experience in working with Boards of Directors, committees, and focus groups, offering training, advice, and facilitation to effectively lead processes and govern organizations. Abra enjoys creating valuable partnerships and works well with people at all levels of the organization, including stakeholders, customers, vendors, and team members. 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