1.Hacking the CityAaron NaparstekSilicon Valley Bike Coalition Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Palo Alto

2. Honku: Where it all beganClinton Street, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. 3. Life on Clinton Street.PBS Life 360 with Michel Martin, July 2002. 4. One day the honking pushed me over the edge. 5. Honking doesnt solve this problem.(Note: This isnt Clinton Street. Its Broadway. Same problem.) 6. Eggs on the street. 7. The incident left me shaken. 8. I realized I needed a new solution. 9. You from New JerseyHonking in front of my houseIn your S.U.V. 10. When the light turns greenLike a leaf on a spring windThe horn blows quickly 11. Gas-guzzler flying little American flagsthe Saudis thank you 12. Your Ford Exploreron a never-ending quest for a parking spot 13. Honku goes viral. 14. Oh, Jeezus ChryslerWhats all the damned honking, Ford?Please shut the truck up 15. What keeps me from justpelting your honking autowith rotting garbage? 16. You dont like honking?Then why live in the citytilting at windmills 17. I came out of the closet. 18. The virtual Lamppost. 19. People start brainstorming solutions 20. Honku was, literally, the Talk of the Town. 21. The obvious next step: Book deal.Who will play me in the movie? 22. My first livable streets activism.PBS Life 360 with Michel Martin, July 2002. 23. And on the second day He said, "Let their be light."And so it was. 24. Windshield Perspective.TKCartoon by Ian Lockwood. 25. Our planning, design and engineering was producing this.Typical Midtown Manhattan street scene, circa 2005 26. And producing this 27. So how do we make change? 28. We organize. 29. Another way to make change:Be the change. Hack the city. 30. An inspiration: Park(ing) DayRebar Groups first Park(ing) installation in San Francisco, Sept. 2005 31. The Park(ing) concept really resonated.Public space reclamation in progress. May 2006, Park Slope, Brooklyn. 32. Rebar turned Park(ing) Day into an open source project. 33. Park(ing) Day200647 parks13 cities3 countries Midtown Manhattan 34. Park(ing) Day2007200 parks50 cities9 countriesAthens, Georgia 35. Park(ing) Day 2008600 parks100 cities13 countriesIndianapolis, Indiana 36. Park(ing) Day 2009700+ parks140 cities21 countries Krakow, Poland 37. Park(ing) Day 2010800+ parks183 cities30 countriesBuenos Aires, Argentina 38. Park(ing) Day 2011975 parks162 cities35 countriesAhmedabad, India 39. Park(ing) Day World MapAntarctica remains un-reclaimed. 40. Park(ing) becomes official city policy in San FranciscoSpring 2009, San Francisco launches the Pavement-to-Parks program 41. San Francisco calls them parklets.Today there are 24 "parklets, including 2 mobile parklets. 42. New York City also implemented a version of Park(ing) August 12, 2010, NYCs launches its Pop-Up Caf program. 43. Park(ing) becomes official city policy in NYC Pearl Street50-Seat Pop-Up Cafein Lower Manhattans Financial District 44. A new way of designing streets and public spaces. Before AfterBroadway at 34th Street, Herald Square, Manhattan. 45. Car-Free Broadway at Times Square Before After 46. A faster, cheaper more feedback-intensive design process. BeforeAfter Phase 1 of Castro Commons, in San Francisco. 47. Lean Design and Agile Development for cities.Phase 2 of Castro Commons. 48. The city is the original social media.Giant chessboard in the middle of Broadway at Herald Square. 49. The Livable Streets Movement.Me and my son on the Prospect Park West bike lane. 50. Being the change.The Naparstek boys on their Onderwater Tandem family bike.