» Archives for Urban Design
April 2008
- 4/29:
Sadik-Khan Introduces the New York City Model
- 4/25:
Streetfilm: The Transformation of Meat Market Plaza
- 4/15:
Après Congestion Pricing, It's Time to Look at the Paris Model
- 4/15:
In the Heights: City Aims to Make 181st a Complete Street
- 4/11:
Bronx County Courthouse Plaza Gets a Makeover
- 4/10:
Today the Périphérique. Tomorrow the FDR.
- 4/09:
Eyes on the Street: Get Ready for the New Gansevoort
- 4/09:
Finally, Parking Meters Where Bikes Belong
- 4/08:
Plan B: Reallocating Street Space To Buses, Bikes & Peds
- 4/08:
Tonight: Support a Bike-Friendly North Brooklyn
March 2008
- 3/18:
Envisioning a More Livable Columbus Avenue
- 3/14:
DOT Launches Bike Rack Design Competition
- 3/13:
In Istanbul, a Burgeoning Livable Streets Movement
- 3/07:
Car-Free Washington Place? Not in My Driveway, Say Residents
- 3/05:
Meeting Tonight on Beseiged Plan to Calm NYU Campus
February 2008
- 2/22:
Let's Chop Up Superblocks
- 2/20:
Ideas Competition for Brooklyn's Grandest Plaza
- 2/15:
Citizens Propose Cycle Track Greenway Connector in Inwood
- 2/15:
City Planning: Fourth Avenue a "Missed Opportunity"
- 2/14:
Pint-Sized Parks Make Safer Streets and Cleaner Rivers
- 2/14:
Drivers Ed. Campaign to Accompany Portland Bike Boxes
- 2/06:
New York Can Do Better Than the "New Fourth Avenue"
- 2/05:
Reinventing Grand Army Plaza on Lopate Tomorrow
January 2008
- 1/15:
Will the Tide Turn on City Parking Policy?
- 1/11:
Another New Bike Shelter
- 1/10:
Times Square: Too Many People, or Just Too Many Cars?
- 1/10:
StreetFilm: How to Use a Bike Box
- 1/08:
What is Your Idea for Grand Army Plaza?
- 1/04:
A Year After Eric Ng's Death, Greenway Hazards Remain Unfixed
- 1/03:
The Case Against Pull-in Angle Parking
- 1/02:
Sleek Bike Parking Facilities Appear in Queens and Brooklyn
December 2007
- 12/20:
City's First Bike Share Planned for Governors Island
- 12/19:
Rocky Road
- 12/13:
Reinventing Grand Army Plaza: What Are Your Ideas?
- 12/12:
Blinding Headlights Make Part of West Side Greenway Unusable
- 12/11:
New Grand Army Plaza Concept is "Brilliantly Obvious"
- 12/11:
Manhattan Bridge Bike & Ped Improvements Nearing Completion
- 12/07:
Replace Penn Station Rats' Warren With a Pedestrian Boulevard
November 2007
- 11/28:
New Bleecker Bike Lane Already Blocked by Parked Cars
- 11/15:
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: DOT to Install Sleek New Bike Parking Shelters
- 11/15:
Prince Street Bike Lane Has Arrived
- 11/13:
Crosstown Bike Lanes Remain in the Crosshairs
- 11/12:
DOT Rolls Out Fort Greene Bike Lanes & Traffic-Calming
- 11/12:
In Amsterdam Cyclists Always Get the Green Light
- 11/12:
Nasty Newsrack Photo Contest Finalists
- 11/08:
DOT Rolls Out the New Lower Manhattan Crosstown Bike Route
- 11/07:
Jan Gehl: Gridlocked Streets Are "Not a Law of Nature"
- 11/07:
Shared Space on the Brooklyn Bridge
October 2007
- 10/31:
Happy Halloween From Clarence the Purple Traffic Wizard
- 10/30:
Brooklyn's Myrtle Avenue Renaissance
- 10/30:
New Bike Lanes and Sharrows Lead to the Brooklyn Bridge
- 10/17:
Illinois Adopts "Complete Streets" Into Law
- 10/15:
Indianapolis Paves the Way for Bikes and Pedestrians
- 10/10:
Is Transportation Reform Possible When the Cops Don't Care?
- 10/08:
Renewed Calls for Ped Safety Summit as Death Toll Mounts
- 10/04:
GAPCo Wins Design Trust Fellowship
- 10/04:
A Ride Down NYC's "Street of the Future"
- 10/03:
New Ninth Avenue Separated Bike Path is Already in Place
- 10/02:
DOT Minds the GAP
September 2007
- 9/27:
Meat Market Plaza is Open for Business
- 9/21:
Making the Case for Compact Development
- 9/20:
NYC Gets Its First-Ever Physically-Separated Bike Path
- 9/14:
German Town Chooses Human Interaction Over Traffic Signals
- 9/13:
Does New York Need a 'New Moses'?
- 9/13:
A Gehl Dispatch From Down Under
- 9/12:
DOT Launches Gehl Street Survey Project
- 9/04:
Queens Pedestrian Safety Fixes Move Ahead Despite Opposition
August 2007
- 8/31:
City Promises $5M in Ped Safety Improvements at Mural Opening
- 8/28:
Queens Leaders Fight Safety Fixes for Fatal School Crossing
- 8/27:
Bike & Ped Improvements Slated for Manhattan Bridge Approach
- 8/24:
Survey Finds That Buffered Bike Lanes Are Better
- 8/17:
Pay Phones May Be a Bad Call for City
- 8/15:
A Brooklyn Parking Lot Becomes a Neighborhood "Living Room"
- 8/14:
Video Shows Dangers of Upper East Side Bike Plan
- 8/13:
Tonight: Traffic-Calming Mural Preview & Fundraiser
- 8/10:
City Launches "Public Plaza Initiative" at DUMBO Pocket Park
- 8/09:
Paint a Parking Lot, Put up a Paradise
- 8/03:
Saturday Evening in Jackson Heights, Queens: Feel the Pain
- 8/02:
Melbourne, Australia After a Decade of Focus on Public Spaces
- 8/02:
Famed Danish Urbanist Jan Gehl in Town to Consult on PlaNYC
- 8/01:
Fear and Loathing on the Upper East Side
- 8/01:
Meatpacking Plaza Update
July 2007
- 7/31:
A Solution to Stroller Rage
- 7/25:
Ninth Ave. and 14th Street Redesign Update
- 7/19:
CB8 Shoots Down Upper East Side Crosstown Bike Route Plan
- 7/18:
The London Model is Dead. Time to Look at Paris.
- 7/13:
More Meatpacking Plaza Construction Photos
- 7/12:
Construction of Piazza de Meatpacking is Underway
- 7/12:
New High-Visibility Bike Lanes in Brooklyn
- 7/12:
An NYC First: On-Street Parking Spaces Replaced by Bike Racks
- 7/09:
It's Getting Better All the Time
- 7/06:
Push to Declutter England's Streets
- 7/02:
Berlin's Bicycle Boom
June 2007
- 6/25:
Brooklyn Greenway Initiative Benefit This Thursday
- 6/22:
Meatpacking District Will Get a Makeover
- 6/19:
Will the Revitalized High Bridge be Bike-Friendly?
- 6/14:
Brooklyn Community Board Supports DOT's 9th Street Plan
- 6/13:
Brainstorming a New Vision for Midtown's East River Waterfront
- 6/05:
Fantasy Island
- 6/01:
City Wants 20,000 New Parking Spaces in Hell's Kitchen
May 2007
- 5/30:
LA.Streetsblog: The Joy of Poor Circulation
- 5/25:
Happy Memorial Day Weekend
- 5/25:
A Portland Neighborhood Reclaims its Streets
- 5/23:
In DUMBO a Parking Lot Will Become a Piazza
- 5/18:
Battery Park City: An Opportunity for Innovative Street Design
- 5/08:
Ninth Street Update: Robert's Rules of Order
- 5/03:
The Benefits of a "Road Diet."
- 5/02:
This is How State Senator Eric Adams Celebrates Bike Month?
- 5/02:
When Streets Are for People
April 2007
- 4/27:
Eyes on the Street: Parking it for Lunch in London
- 4/27:
Tell Marty Markowitz You Support DOT's 9th Street Plan
- 4/26:
Fun With Numbers (Or: The PlaNYC Index)
- 4/20:
The Ultimate System: Free Mass Transit and Congestion Pricing
- 4/19:
Visions of a Grander Grand Army Plaza
- 4/19:
Grand Plans for Brooklyn's Iconic Public Space
- 4/19:
Toronto Politician on Bike Lanes and the Future of Cycling
- 4/18:
Bus Bulbs Are Blooming
- 4/13:
DOT Called Out for Lacking Clear Ped Safety Plan
- 4/11:
Who Opposes A Plan for Safer, More Livable Streets and Why?
- 4/10:
The Plan: Making Brooklyn's 9th Street Safer for Everyone
- 4/10:
Updated Version of DOT's 9th Street Plan
- 4/10:
Take a Minute to Fax in Your Support for DOT's 9th Street Plan
- 4/09:
City Pitches in for Yankee Stadium Parking
- 4/04:
Study: Sidewalks Can't Handle Transit Traffic
- 4/03:
Pedestrian and Bike Improvements Coming to Grand Army Plaza
March 2007
- 3/29:
Sneak Peek at DOT's Plan for Park Slope's 9th Street
- 3/29:
Should DOT Install Separated Bike Lanes on 9th Street?
- 3/29:
Vanderbilt Avenue: The Model for DOT's 9th Street Proposal?
- 3/14:
StreetFilms: One Way is the Wrong Way
- 3/12:
Insta-Bus Rapid Transit for Lower Manhattan
- 3/11:
Quick Bus and Ped Improvements Coming to Lower Broadway
- 3/02:
The Iris Weinshall Legacy: Queens Boulevard
February 2007
- 2/28:
DOT to Propose Radical New Traffic Plan for Park Slope
- 2/26:
3 Peds Hit on 9th Ave. 2 Dead. Mayor Mike: Where Are You?
- 2/23:
Street Films: Intersection Intervention
- 2/23:
Green Revolution Sweeping Through U.S. Cities
- 2/22:
The "Speed Lump." Not a Typo. It's Inexpensive Traffic Calming.
- 2/20:
PlanNYC 2030: What makes a Community Sustainable?
- 2/19:
DOT Pledged Ped Safety Fixes by 2006 on Deadly Third Ave
- 2/15:
Plan Urged Safety Measures for Intersection Where Boy Died
- 2/09:
Robert Moses's Fundamental Misunderstanding
- 2/06:
New York New Visions Tackles "Sustainable" New York Future
January 2007
- 1/24:
StreetFilms: Berkeley's Bike Boulevards
- 1/17:
Homemade Traffic Calming in Mexico's Yucatan
- 1/17:
Traffic Signals Timed for Bicycling
- 1/10:
Playable Streets
- 1/10:
New Traffic Island Makes News, Takes a Beating
- 1/04:
Streetscape Aesthetics vs. Pedestrian Safety
- 1/02:
New Year's Resolution: Physically Separated Bike Lanes in '07
December 2006
- 12/31:
Setting the Agenda on Pedestrian Safety
- 12/22:
Small Step for Pedestrians & Cyclists; Giant Leap for NYC
- 12/22:
New German Community Models Car-Free Living
- 12/20:
Meeting Tonight on Westside Greenway Bike Safety
- 12/20:
Streetfilms: On-Street Bicycle Parking, Portland
- 12/18:
Wider Sidewalks & a Bicycle Park-and-Ride for Williamsburg
- 12/14:
Streetfilms: Curbing Cars in Soho
- 12/14:
Rethinking Soho
- 12/08:
Seoul's New Heart
- 12/08:
Chicago: A City Whose Mayor Cares About Bicycling
- 12/06:
Bollard Porn
- 12/01:
Sidewalk Parking Opponents Gain Ground in . . . Where?
November 2006
- 11/30:
Safe Routes to Schools Study Complete
- 11/29:
New Bike Lanes and Markings for the Lower East Side
- 11/21:
Speed Hump
- 11/20:
Speak Up to Keep the Willoughby Street Pedestrian Plaza
- 11/20:
The Debate Over Physically-Separated Bike Lanes Continues
- 11/17:
Transit-Oriented Development in Jersey City
- 11/16:
A Streetsblog Reader Wins Traffic Calming Improvements
- 11/15:
New Bike Stencils Completed on the Lower East Side
- 11/14:
The Idea of Rising Sea Levels is Sinking In
- 11/14:
Designing the Ideal Taxi Stand for New York City
- 11/13:
London's Cycling Design Standards: A Model for NYC?
- 11/13:
Gridlock Sam Tells the Story of NYC's First Bike Lanes
- 11/13:
Birth of a Class III Bike Route
- 11/10:
T is for Transit-Oriented Development
- 11/09:
DOT to Neighborhood: Your School's in the Way of Our Highway
- 11/08:
Car-Free Manhattan: Just Wait 100 Years
- 11/08:
Connecting Urban Design and Public Health
- 11/07:
Reverse Engineering Pedestrian Safety in Boerum Hill
- 11/06:
Cyclists and Pedestrians: Fighting Over the Scraps
- 11/03:
DOT Culture: Stifling Innovation on NYC's Streets?
- 11/03:
NYC Gets its First Pedestrian Countdown Timer
- 11/03:
New Bike Markings For Brooklyn's Fifth Ave. This Month
October 2006
- 10/31:
T.O.D. in Brooklyn: Turning Parking Lots into Housing
- 10/27:
Foreign Correspondent: Bogota's Lack of "Vibrancy"
- 10/27:
Life on Crutches in NYC
- 10/26:
Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project: Ten Years On
- 10/25:
Pedestrian-Friendly Changes for Grand Army Plaza
- 10/25:
MTA Response to Pokey: Traffic Congestion = "Vibrancy"
- 10/24:
DOT Announces Five Bus Rapid Transit Corridors
- 10/19:
Streetfilms: Car-Free Bedford Avenue
- 10/09:
Great New Website: Get Outta MyBikeLane
- 10/09:
NYC Finally Cracking Down on Security Barriers
- 10/06:
Eyes on the Street: Amsterdam
- 10/04:
Notes on Bicycling in Copenhagen
- 10/03:
Traffic's Human Toll
- 10/03:
Danish Bike Cargo
September 2006
- 9/29:
Blogging From Copenhagen
- 9/28:
Learning From a Streets Renaissance in Hong Kong
- 9/27:
Another Model: Berkeley's Bicycle Boulevard Network
- 9/26:
Beyond Thermoplast, Street Signs and Signal Timing
- 9/25:
More Park(ing) Photos From San Fran
- 9/25:
Street Films: Park(ing) Day San Francisco
- 9/20:
Endless Summer on Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue
- 9/14:
U.K. Study Finds Wearing a Bike Helmet May be More Dangerous
- 9/11:
Binghamton Revitalizing Around Livable Downtown
- 9/08:
Midtown's Mini-Plaza
- 9/07:
Super Staten Solar Stop Signs
- 9/05:
Is DOT Doing Enough to Make NYC Bike-Friendly?
August 2006
- 8/31:
Rally for a Livable Houston Street
- 8/28:
The Suburbanization of NYC's Waterfront
- 8/24:
Street Film: The Transformation of Willoughby Street
- 8/23:
Pedestrian Safety Competition at the Jersey Shore
- 8/21:
Where in the City is this?
- 8/15:
Chinatown Business Group Proposes Car-Free Streets
- 8/14:
Brooklyn's Fort Greene Fights for Livable Streets
- 8/11:
Guess-the-Suburb Winner Is: Matt
- 8/11:
Traffic Continues to Disappear in Paris
- 8/09:
Report Calls for Radical Rethink of New York Area Planning
- 8/09:
Can You Name the Town?
July 2006
- 7/26:
Gridlock in Williamsburg
- 7/25:
Houston Street Redesign: The $30 Million Missed Opportunity
- 7/25:
Revisiting Houston Street, One Month Later
- 7/20:
City Council Screening of "Contested Streets"
- 7/20:
Hugh Hardy: Architect Calls for Fresh Take on Public Life
- 7/17:
Traffic Engineering by Body Count
- 7/16:
Vehicle City
- 7/11:
Unwarranted Traffic Chaos in Red Hook
- 7/06:
Canal Street Edge: From Bucolic to Frenetic
- 7/05:
Municipal Arts Society Today on WNYC, 12 noon
June 2006
- 6/29:
Atlantic Yards Traffic and Parking
- 6/29:
Other Cities' Mayors on Bicycling
- 6/29:
Cyclists Rally at City Hall
- 6/28:
Jane Jacobs: A Public Celebration
- 6/26:
EcoPolis: Envisioning the City of the Future