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By Clarence Eckerson

Buenos Aires: Building a People-Friendly City

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jul 30, 2014 | No Comments

Buenos Aires is fast becoming one of the most admired cities in the world when it comes to reinventing streets and transportation. Just over a year ago, the city launched MetroBus BRT (constructed in less than seven months) on 9 de Julio Avenue, which may be the world’s widest street. The transformation of four general […]

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Parking: Searching for the Good Life in the City

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jul 10, 2014 | No Comments

Streetfilms is proud to partner with ITDP to bring you this fun animation that’s sort of a cross between those catchy Schoolhouse Rock shorts and the credit sequence for a 1960s-style Saul Bass film. For too long cities tried to make parking a core feature of the urban fabric, only to discover that yielding to parking demand […]

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Parking Craters: Scourge of American Downtowns

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jun 4, 2014 | No Comments

Streetsblog’s Angie Schmitt popularized the term “parking crater,” and she explains it simply: A parking crater is “a depression in the middle of an urban area formed by the absence of buildings.” Different types of “meteors” left behind parking craters in the 20th Century — sprawl subsidies, the erosion of manufacturing, highway building. Whatever the cause, parking craters absolutely destroy sections of downtowns and make […]

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“The Better Block” Celebrates Four Years of Re-imagining Streets

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | May 19, 2014 | No Comments

Streetfilms has wanted to profile Jason Roberts and the amazing work of The Better Block for a long time. So it felt like destiny when, a few weeks ago, we were able to sync up and chronicle the fourth anniversary of The Better Block in Oak Cliff, Texas. This temporary pedestrian plaza is right next to […]

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Hal Grades Your Bike Locking 2014

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | May 6, 2014 | No Comments

It’s hard to believe, but it’s been nearly five years since we last went traipsing around SoHo grading people’s bike locking with Hal Ruzal from Bicycle Habitat. So it was time for the next chapter with the mechanic who wears pink-purple socks, admonishing you about how to lock your wheels, frame, and seat correctly. The process is […]

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Lakewood, Ohio: The Suburb Where Everyone Can Walk to School

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Apr 29, 2014 | No Comments

The inner Cleveland suburb of Lakewood (population 51,000) calls itself a “walking school district.” Lakewood has never had school buses in its history, and kids grow up walking and biking to school. Mornings and afternoons are a beehive of activity on streets near schools, as kids and parents walk to and from classrooms. You can feel […]

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