The Museum of the City of New York debuted it’s exhibit, “Growing and Greening New York: PlaNYC and the Future of the City” last night, on an unusually balmy December evening.
The exhibit guides visitors through a 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekday, using elements of everyday life to help people explore, imagine and realize a [...]
How's this for understanding modal harmony?
Livable Streets Education has been working in New York City schools, encouraging students to explore and question the environments around their school and in their neighborhoods, and to voice the changes they want to see on their streets. We recently asked first graders at P.S. 87 to give advice to [...]
Add Boulder, Colorado to the League of American Bicyclists' cities to achieve Platinum Bike Status.
With all the hullabaloo over the new Grand Street bike lane, we thought we'd resurrect a Streetfilm (actually before they were even called Streetfilms!) from back in June 2005 with TOPP founder Mark Gorton talking about the then incredible width of Grand Street and the inequity of street space devoted to its users. We [...]
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Livable Streets Education has been working in New York City schools, encouraging students to explore and question the environments around their school and in their neighborhoods, and to voice the changes they want to see on their streets. We recently asked Kindergartners at P.S. 87 what they would do if there [...]
Released in only a handful of theaters this summer with nary a cinematic sound, "Noise" stars Tim Robbins as a New Yorker whose life becomes upended when the decibels of city living infringe on his daily routine. Now on DVD, hopefully "Noise" will allow more advocates to queue it up in their Netflix accounts.
When noisy [...]
During my last West Coast Streetfilms field trip, I got to sit down with San Francisco's own Jon Winston who has been putting together the fantastic Bikescape podcast for many moons. If you'd like your ear to take an audio gander, just go here. We talked about many topics including NYC's recent transformation, activism and [...]
Danish livable streets maestro Jan Gehl, grabbed a table in New York City's new wonderful public space, Madison Square, to chat with Streetsblog's Editor-in-chief Aaron Naparstek.
See how one community organized to create a plan for safer, healthier and more livable streets and public spaces.
Story ideas. People have them. Sometimes they let us know. Sometimes they don't. Sometimes they are good. Sometimes they are bad. Sometimes we don't have a 1 million dollar budget to pull them off. Heck, sometimes they give us a good one at event and we don't write [...]