Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Livable Streets

Streetfilms: A Streetside Chat With Jan Gehl

By Brad Aaron | Nov 24, 2008 | No Comments

In November 2006, Danish planner Jan Gehl met Streetsblog Publisher Mark Gorton in Times Square to reflect on the state of the city’s public spaces. In this Streetfilm by Clarence Eckerson, EIC Aaron Naparstek catches up with Gehl in the new Madison Square to talk about what has changed in the intervening two years, and […]

Jan Gehl: New York Could Have World’s Best Streets

By Gideon Shapiro | Nov 17, 2008 | 6 Comments

When DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, together with consultant and Danish urban planner Jan Gehl, introduced the new "World Class Streets" doc [PDF] to a crowd of over 300 last Thursday evening at the Center for Architecture, the event seemed equal parts town hall meeting and celebrity book launch. Building upon PlaNYC and DOT’s Sustainable Streets, […]

Tonight: See the Blueprint for a New Upper West Side

By Brad Aaron | Nov 13, 2008 | 27 Comments

Streets designed for safe, accessible, and equitable use. That is the vision of the "Blueprint for the Upper West Side: A Roadmap for Truly Livable Streets," to be unveiled tonight by the Upper West Side Streets Renaissance Campaign. The product of one year of community-driven planning, in consultation with urbanist legends Jan Gehl and Donald […]

Study Provides a New Vision for Allen and Pike Street Malls

By Sarah Goodyear | Sep 19, 2008 | 7 Comments

Local residents turned out to give their opinions on the renovation of the malls early last summer. Residents of the Lower East Side and Chinatown have been fighting for improvements to the Allen and Pike Street pedestrian malls for more than a decade. Now, with the city’s Parks Department set to begin a $5.4 million […]

It’s Park(ing) Day All Over America

By Ben Fried | Sep 19, 2008 | 1 Comment

This morning, street reclaimers across the country are settling into their Park(ing) spaces — more than 450 spots in 80 cities, according to the latest count. For our readers outside New York City, check out the Trust for Public Land’s Google map to find a spot near you. TPL also has a great round-up of […]

Melbourne’s Complete Streets

By Ken Coughlin | Sep 17, 2008 | 6 Comments

In August, I had the pleasure of spending a little more than two weeks in Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne is the country’s second-largest city, with 3.8 million residents in the metropolitan area. Despite its size, from a walking and transportation standpoint (to say nothing of a coffee-drinking perspective), Melbourne almost defines the term "livable city." Trams […]

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