Comments on: Streetfilms: A New Vision for the Upper West Side http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/11/18/streetfilms-a-new-vision-for-the-upper-west-side/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:53:51 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Erin http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/11/18/streetfilms-a-new-vision-for-the-upper-west-side/comment-page-1/#comment-59129 Erin Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:43:23 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=4968#comment-59129 What about the rest of the city? Isn't the rich Upper West Side already considerably more livable than most of Brookyn and Queens? What about the rest of the city? Isn't the rich Upper West Side already considerably more livable than most of Brookyn and Queens?

]]> By: ddartley http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/11/18/streetfilms-a-new-vision-for-the-upper-west-side/comment-page-1/#comment-59096 ddartley Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:01:31 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=4968#comment-59096 Was in the Historic District of Savannah, GA last week and they have at least one chunk of on-street bike parking similar to the one in the title frame of the vid above. That district is a model of livable streets design in many other ways, too--of course that's mostly attributable to the city's choice, repeated a couple times over a century or two, to stick to the original 1733 city's grid plan. There are also several modern safety devices built more recently into the city's streets; my friggin camera broke so I couldn't do another Pulitzer-worthy (boring) livable streets photo set like I did from Glasgow, Scotland, but I will upload a few interesting ones to flickr soon. Was in the Historic District of Savannah, GA last week and they have at least one chunk of on-street bike parking similar to the one in the title frame of the vid above.

That district is a model of livable streets design in many other ways, too--of course that's mostly attributable to the city's choice, repeated a couple times over a century or two, to stick to the original 1733 city's grid plan.

There are also several modern safety devices built more recently into the city's streets; my friggin camera broke so I couldn't do another Pulitzer-worthy (boring) livable streets photo set like I did from Glasgow, Scotland, but I will upload a few interesting ones to flickr soon.

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