Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Urban Design

Drivers Ed. Campaign to Accompany Portland Bike Boxes

By Jason Varone | | 3 Comments
In an attempt to improve safety at intersections in Portland, Oregon, the Department of Transportation will install the city’s first bike boxes at 14 locations this spring. The city will also launch a marketing campaign, "Get Behind It. The Bike Box: Portland’s New Green Space," intended to educate motorists. As Bikeportland.org reports, large signs will […]

New York Can Do Better Than the “New Fourth Avenue”

By Ben Fried | | 38 Comments
New developments on Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue like the Crest have turned their back on the public realm. When the City Planning Commission upzoned Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue in 2003, it was hailed by some as a breakthrough. Borough President Marty Markowitz trumpeted Fourth Avenue as "a grand boulevard of the 21st Century." Residential development would reshape […]

Reinventing Grand Army Plaza on Lopate Tomorrow

By Aaron Naparstek | | 1 Comment
More and more, we’re seeing grassroots, community-driven Livable Streets project gaining traction on the citywide level. Here’s another example of just that: Tomorrow, Tupper Thomas of the Prospect Park Alliance and Deborah Marton of the Design Trust for Public Space will be discussing the Reinventing Grand Army Plaza project on "The Leonard Lopate Show." Tune […]

Will the Tide Turn on City Parking Policy?

By Brad Aaron | | 8 Comments
 A few weeks back Atlantic Yards Report posted a compendium of recent writings that point to the contradictions inherent in, and problems resulting from, parking requirements for urban development plans. Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s much-praised PlaNYC 2030 contains a glaring omission, a failure to address the antiquated anti-urban policy that mandates parking attached to new residential […]
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