Livable Streets

Help Wanted: Streetswiki Writing Talent

By Aaron Naparstek

3:14 PM EST on February 21, 2008

Description: As a part of Streetsblog’s impending redesign we are launching a new web site called Streetswiki. Streetswiki is a free, web-based, community-created encyclopedia dedicated to sharing knowledge about sustainable transportation policies, practices and ideas from around the world. Like Wikipedia, its articles will be written and edited by anyone with a bit of unique knowledge and access to the Internet. Through Streetswiki, we hope to provide a means for Livable Streets practitioners in cities around the world to share information, ideas and best practices.

The Open Planning Project, the publisher of Streetsblog and Streetfilms, is seeking to hire one or more writers to help get Streetswiki off the ground. Our goal is to have a healthy number of Streetswiki articles written and published when the new site launches this spring. As such, we are looking for individuals with professional writing or editing experience and a background in urban planning, transportation policy or livable streets advocacy to help us seed Streetswiki.

Hours: We are looking for someone who can commit a minimum of 20 hours per week and can focus intensively on this project for the next four to six weeks.

Pay: A rate of $20 per hour or we can work out payment on a per article, per word or per week basis. Let’s discuss.

Sample Streetswiki article topics:

Jan Gehl, Danish urban designer
Ciclovia
Woonerf
Milennium Park Bike Station, Chicago
Park(ing) Day
Enrique Penalosa
A complete list of all known public bike-sharing programs
The Velib bike-sharing program in Paris, France
Chicanes
Le Mobilien
Hans Monderman
TransMilenio
Donald Shoup
Cheonggyecheon River Highway removal project, Seoul, South Korea
Physically Separated Bike Lanes
Christine Berthet of the Clinton / Hell’s Kitchen Pedestrian Safety Coalition
CHEKPEDS: The Clinton / Hell’s Kitchen Pedestrian Safety Coalition
Mode Shift
Curbside Vacancy Rates
Transit-Oriented Development
Ghost Bikes
Las Ramblas, Barcelona, Spain
Traffic Justice
Vauban, Freiburg, Germany
VMT
London Mayor Ken Livingstone
Janette Sadik-Khan

If the gestalt of this list is immediately clear to you and you have professional writing and editing experience and you can devote at least 20 hours a week to this project for the next four weeks (and you may be interested in editing Streetswiki as a full-time job), send a cover letter, resume and clips to aaron [at] streetsblog [dot] org. Please write, “Streetswiki” in the subject line of your e-mail.

Aaron Naparstek

Aaron Naparstek is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek's journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. He was also one of the original cast members of the "War on Cars" podcast. You can find more of his work on his website.

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