Maker Cities
summary
San Francisco repurposes Market Street with a $350 million Better Market Street program, prototyping 50 prototypes during a festival in early October that tests parklets, Living Innovation Zones and temporary public artworks; Market Street serves ~250,000 pedestrians, ~880,000 transit riders, ~5,000 cyclists daily. Makers use MakerBot + Shapeways to iterate prosthetics and startups from a nonprofit incubator (Workand, HandUp, LetsMake) tackle urban services; Ways maps crowdsourced gas-station status during Hurricane Sandy. The city shortens permitting from six months to weeks.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Remaking Market Street
- 1:10Traditional planning to engagement
- 3:38City permitting and bureaucracy
- 5:22Blogging and maker cities
- 6:48Maker spaces as hubs
- 9:15Maker Fairs and innovation
- 11:22Civic Innovation Incubator
- 14:53Crowdfunding for homeless
- 16:16Crisis response with data
- 19:26Top-down versus bottom-up
- 21:11Resilience through failure
- 22:35Inclusivity in public space
- 24:44Indigenous maker communities
- 26:29Social capital through making
- 28:15Maker spaces and connections
- 30:45Closing remarks
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