Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Urban Design

This Valentine’s Day, Declare Your Love For the Most Beautiful Street

By Noah Kazis | Feb 14, 2012 | 7 Comments

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, here is a new and interesting way to compare streets. At www.beautiful.st, you can compare 200 randomly selected streets in Philadelphia, plucked from Google Street View, two at a time. Vote for the most beautiful and two more images pop up for you to compare. The site was designed […]

New Urbanists Release Principles for Sustainable Street Networks

By Ben Goldman | Jan 26, 2012 | No Comments

At the Transportation Research Board’s 91st annual meeting here in DC, it’s hard to miss the booth handing out copies of a bright blue pamphlet filled with illustrations of busy tree-lined streets, where bicyclists and buses work their way through a bustling urban bazaar. The booth is the Congress for New Urbanism’s “occupation” of TRB, […]

The Upside of Cuomo’s Convention Center Plan: Urbanism on the West Side

By Ben Fried | Jan 9, 2012 | 6 Comments

After Andrew Cuomo’s State of the State address last week, Streetsblog looked a little closer at the governor’s plan to build the nation’s largest convention center at the Aqueduct racino in Ozone Park, Queens. Counting on a huge convention center near JFK airport to deliver economic development seemed like a dubious proposition, but the other […]

Rail~volution: Will New Americans Fuel Smart Growth or Suburbanism?

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 17, 2011 | No Comments

This year’s Rail~volution conference — the annual gathering of livability advocates, urban sustainability coordinators, and transit agency officials – kicked off today with remarks by Chris Leinberger of the Brookings Institution and Manuel Pastor, who teaches demographics and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Is this the new image of walkable urbanism? Photo: WekeRoad […]

Eyes on the Street: Brand New Pop-Up Café on Sullivan Street

By Ben Fried | Jul 15, 2011 | 6 Comments

Reader Ian Dutton sends these shots of the pop-up café that just went up at “local” — a coffee shop on Sullivan Street in SoHo. Ian says owners Craig and Liz Walker worked hard to make this public space enhancement happen. Among other things, they had to bring a crew of supporters with them to […]

Rezoning to Encourage Street Life on Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue

By Noah Kazis | Jun 22, 2011 | 7 Comments

When the Department of City Planning put forward its rezoning of Park Slope in 2003, one of the earliest of the now 111 rezonings under Mayor Bloomberg and City Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden, it was intended to help turn Fourth Avenue into “a grand boulevard of the 21st Century.” The sought-after residential development has started […]

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