Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Urban Planning

PlaNYC 2030 Project “Tearing Things Up” at City Hall

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 13, 2007 | 6 Comments

A tipster tells us of a particularly vigorous screaming match in City Hall last week between Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff and a career civil servant who must remain nameless. "You wouldn’t know it from outside appearances," the tipster says, "but the 2030 Project is really tearing things up inside City Hall right now. It’s a […]

Parking: If You Build it They Will Come… in Their Cars.

By Josh Brustein | Mar 12, 2007 | 10 Comments

This is the second in a three-part series on New York City parking policy.Part 1: The New York City Parking Boom In recent years, urban planners have come to accept a somewhat counter-intuitive theory called "induced demand." The theory posits that when you build a new road or widen an existing one to try to […]

Report from Atlanta: Don’t Walk This Way

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 9, 2007 | 23 Comments

I can’t get behind Prevention Magazine’s ranking of New York as 39th among the nation’s most walkable cities. But after spending three days in Atlanta for a conference recently, I have no problem understanding why it rates 86th. Stuck, like most of the city’s legions of conventioneers, in the area around the Peachtree Center, I […]

The New York City Parking Boom

By Josh Brustein | Mar 8, 2007 | 14 Comments

The first in a three-part series on New York City parking policy. Last December, in announcing the goals of his Long-Term Planning and Sustainability initiative, Mayor Michael Bloomberg raised the terrifying specter of New York City commuters in the year 2030 stuck in an eight-hour "rush hour." This all-day traffic jam would become a reality, the […]

Brooklyn to Bloomberg: Include Local Stakeholders in Planning

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 8, 2007 | 22 Comments

Below is a letter from the Park Slope Civic Council to Mayor Bloomberg and local elected representatives regarding the City’s plan to transform Sixth and Seventh Avenue’s into one-way streets. It’s lengthy but it’s worth a read (and full disclosure: I’m a trustee of the Civic Council): Park Slope Civic Council March 7, 2007 Dear […]

DOT’s Park Slope Plan Requires Community Board Support

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 7, 2007 | 13 Comments

Crain’s reporter Erik Engquist gets some more information about the Department of Transportation’s plans to convert two Park Slope Avenues into one-way streets. DOT’s press office is now saying: DOT would like to change Sixth and Seventh Avenues to one-way streets to simplify the turning movements at intersections along the Avenues which would enhance safety […]

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