Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Quality of Life

NYC Finally Cracking Down on Security Barriers

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 9, 2006 | 1 Comment

In the aftermath of September 11th, concrete and steel barriers sprouted like mushrooms around big buildings in New York City. It almost seemed to me to be a kind of status symbol. You knew you worked in an important building if your landlord had hardened it against truck bombs. The barriers were often ugly and […]

Creating Great Public Spaces in New York City

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 6, 2006 | No Comments

Project for Public Spaces just published a great piece of work that is very much worth a download. The paper is called "Nine Ways to Transform New York into a City of Great Places." From the introduction: In New York, the term "public space" is still synonymous with "parks" in most officials’ minds–and without a […]

International Walk and Bike to School Day: Portland

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 6, 2006 | 1 Comment

By way of Clarence Eckerson, who is always keeping an eye on Portland, BikePortland has coverage of International Walk and Bike to School Day. Did we celebrate that holiday in New York City? I was on a plane all day so, if we did, I missed it. At any rate, Walk and Bike to School Day […]

Traffic’s Human Toll

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 6, 2006 | No Comments

Transportation Alternatives’ new study, Traffic’s Human Toll, is getting picked up all over the place (CBS, NBC, Post). The report is an update on the famous Appleyard Study and it found that New Yorkers who live on high traffic streets have a measurably lower quality of life. Not exactly a huge surprise, and yet this […]

Tomorrow, Special Event: What is Traffic’s Human Toll?

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 4, 2006 | 1 Comment

A special New York City Streets Renaissance Campaign event. Location: NYU Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street, 2nd FloorTime: 9 – 10:30 amRSVP: research@transalt.org.Note: A light breakfast will be served.

Notes on Bicycling in Copenhagen

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 4, 2006 | 20 Comments

Copenhagen, Denmark is not a natural bicycling city. In the early 1960’s it was very much of a car town. In 1962 the city created its first pedestrian street, the Stroget, and every year since then Copenhagen has allocated more and more of its public space to bicycles, pedestrians and people who just want to sit […]

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