Our work has been featured in dozens of news outlets, including the New York Times, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and the Village Voice. Streetfilms alone have appeared on CNN, PBS, and NPR, and at dozens of conferences, community screenings, and film festivals around the world. We are also proud that our work has won the praise of visionary civic leaders and public officials.
Recent Press
- For Reformers, Closing Broadway 'Tiniest Tip of the Iceberg' - NY Observer - 2/11/2010
- Open Geospatial Tools Expand Their Niche - V1 Magazine - 2/05/10
- The Man Who Closed Times Square to Traffic - NY Observer - 1/26/2010
- Our Bike Racks, Ourselves: Crowdsourcing Two-Wheeled Parking - Wired - 11/25/2009
- Picture This! - Streetfilms profiled in Momentum Magazine - 10/2009
- 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World - Mark Gorton profiled - Utne Reader - 10/2009
- Interview with Philip Ashlock - Requires RealPlayer - Brian Lehrer Live 10/14/2009
- Pavement to Parks - New York Times - 9/24/2009
- Interview with Aaron Naparstek - Pedal Power - 9/2009
- More Schools Encourage Commuting by Bike - New York Times - 9/15/2009
- From Within GeoServer - English Translation via Google Translate - InfoGEO - 8/4/2009
- Traffic Calming and Community Empowerment, Year 2: Newark’s East Coast Greenway - Mobilizing the Region - 7/28/09
- San Francisco to Reform Parking Policy - In Favor of the Car? - Treehugger - 7/23/09
- Build Web-Based Maps and Applications with GeoExplorer - GISCafé - 6/18/2009
- New York Loads City GIS Application with New Features - Government Technology - 5/28/09
- Taking art to the streets - literally - Brooklyn Downtown Star - 5/20/09
- Don't Drive, They Said. But A Few Didn't Hear. - The New York Times - 5/8/2009
- Best Green Transportation Advocacy - Treehugger - 4/7/09
- The Street of the Future is a Livable Street - Good Magazine - 4/7/09
- GeoSpatial: An Open Source Microcosm - Directions Magazine - 3/09
- Roll it! Films on bicycles and streets offer ideas - The Villager - 2/09
- Leaderboard - Beatblogging - 2/09
- Senate's $50 Billion Highway Giveaway Nearly Dead - Streetsblog article picked up by 'extra' on New York Times homepage - 2/09
- Streetsblog: Advocacy Journalism and the Reconquering of the American City - Planetizen - 1/09
- LimeWire Creator Brings Open-Source Approach to Urban Planning - Wired - 1/09
Media Contacts
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What People Are Saying
"Lime's companies are slices of Gorton's view of the digital
future -- one in which the right software will smooth almost any
human interaction, from trading stocks to swapping songs, from
recording a patient's medical diagnosis to placing speed bumps
on city streets. His employees [are people] who share his ideals,
particularly that software should be open source, or editable by
all of its users." Bloomberg. Read the full article.
"They are multiplying the impact of innovators and inspiring many others." Treehugger. Read the full article.
"If congestion pricing becomes a reality in New York City, you might have 37-year-old Aaron Naparstek and his blog to thank." The New York Times. Read the full article.
"After being forwarded your film, I hit upon the idea of compressing our traffic and parking lanes to fit in a physically
separated cycleway on our 12.8 metre wide streets. This has led to a revolution in cycleway design for us and we will be installing 55 kilometres of separated bike lane."
Graham McCabe
Senior Traffic Network Manager, Sydney, Australia
“GeoServer Enterprise offered us the flexible and comprehensive support
we were looking for: expertise and knowledge transfer from core
developers; feature development that's incorporated into the source
code; unlimited priority bug fixes; and fast and reliable technical
support."
Bibiana McHugh
IT Manager of GIS and
Location-Based Service, Portland TriMet
"Streetsblog helps "the conversation become focused on ‘How can we fix this?’ instead of ‘Is this really a problem?’"
Kay Sarlin
Spokeswoman for the NYC Department of Transportation
“Streetfilms opened the door to major innovation in Portland. Whether
your movie about Ciclovia in Bogota leading to Sunday Parkways in
Portland or Portland Transportation and NYC DOT staff brainstorming and
providing feedback to each other about engineering and education
programs, Streetfilms has been a central part of Portland's story for
the past three years.”
Greg Raisman
Community and School Traffic Safety Partnership,
Portland Office of Transportation, Oregon
"Their work expands people’s minds about what is possible for our streets. We can’t easily visit all the leading places in the streets renaissance movement, but we can visit them virtually."
William Ostrem
Northern Letter
"Streetsblog provides unparalleled coverage of transportation and planning issues in New York City, making it the envy of transportation advocates in cities across the country... A must read for anyone who’s interested in creating sustainable transportation policies.”
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