Perkins&Will: a car-free Market Street

In January 2020, San Francisco closed Market Street to private cars. I led media for Perkins&Will’s San Francisco studio, whose urban designers had helped lay the groundwork, with a day and a half to get them into the story. The closure was already widely reported, so I pitched the design question behind it: what changes when a downtown street is planned for people on foot. Forbes, Curbed SF, Grist and KRON4 ran features.

A campaign on resilient cities followed, built around urban design principal Geeti Silwal. When the pandemic changed how people used their homes, I pitched the firm’s residential and education designers, and their work ran in ArchDaily, Apartment Therapy and Dwell.