Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Urban Planning

Congestion Tops Citizens’ PlaNYC 2030 Concerns

By Sarah Goodyear | | 1 Comment
The second phase of Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC 2030 outreach campaign, which has been soliciting feedback from the public through meetings with community leaders and on PlaNYC’s website, has been completed, and the word is in: People in New York want to do something about traffic congestion. So far, the website has received 52,000 visits from […]

Streetfilms: An Interview with Sam Schwartz

By Sarah Goodyear | | No Comments
Sam Schwartz, aka "Gridlock Sam," is best-known to many New Yorkers through his Daily News column about the city’s quotidian traffic woes. Schwartz is the president and CEO of Sam Schwartz LLC, a traffic planning and engineering firm that has worked on projects including the JFK AirTrain, the IKEA project in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and […]

New York City 2030. London Today.

By Aaron Naparstek | | 2 Comments
On Thursday, as New York City’s highest ranking transportation officials argued before City Council that the city’s increasing traffic congestion and automobile dependence is "an indication of the vitality and the growth of the city of New York," London’s Mayor Ken Livingstone was in Davos, Switzerland announcing that he aims "to make London the world’s […]

The Known Unknowns of New York City’s Streets

By Aaron Naparstek | | 4 Comments
Unlike New York, Copenhagen, Denmark’s planners measure city streets for much more than "Vehicular Level of Service." This map, for example, quantifies stationary activities on a summer weekday in the city center. From Public Spaces Public Life by Lars Gemzoe and Jan Gehl, 1996. As former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld would say, Schaller Consulting’s new […]
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