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Streets
57 posts
Cars And Robust Cities Are Fundamentally Incompatible
50 years ago, experts predicted automobiles would drain the life from urban areas. Their predictions are coming true.…
2015-02-16
Better Design For Saving Pedestrians
New York city police are stepping up efforts to rein in jaywalkers after cars struck and killed several…
2015-02-10
Graffiti For Cities?
Late last year, 5Pointz a graffiti hotspot in Queens, New York, was whitewashed, erasing years of graffiti by…
2015-02-10
Parking Innovations That Every City Should Adopt
No one knows more about parking than UCLA’s Donald Shoup, the so-called “prophet of parking” and author of…
2015-02-07
The Geometry Of Urban Life
Even a roaming cartophile, looking through an airplane window at night, would be challenged to identify a city…
2015-01-30
A Guide To Safer Streets and Simple Rules – Courtesy of New York City
In the past decade or so, New York has seen a considerable decline in traffic fatalities (30 percent…
2015-01-30
10 Techniques For Making Cities More Walkable
In Jeff Speck’s excellent new book, Walkable City, he suggests that there are ten keys to creating walkability.…
2015-01-29