Green street

The City of Sydney is committed to delivering innovative urban design projects that improve the quality of the public domain for residents, workers an

Loop NYC was a 2017 plan that proposed transforming New York roadways into public parks. The brief imagines dedicated micro highways around the perimeter of Manhattan populated with self-driving cars in an electric blue. Above the highways would be pedestrian-accessible outdoor green spaces. “Communities would connect in unexpected ways,” EDG founder John Meyer says, “and the city would be a healthier place.”

While enabling cars to move around is not unimportant, I applaud those leaders who are also directing our attention -- and the attention of public departments of transportation -- back to people, to streets as not just conveyances but also destinations, places to linger on foot, as places of beauty, as places whose look and feel greatly define what it means to be in a particular community, why one city differs from another.

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This is better than 3 parked cars.

Designing and implementing green complete streets

It’s easy to get overwhelmed by seeing negative things about the world. But doom and gloom are boring. It’s even unhelpful. In order to make it over the obstacle of building the world of our dreams…

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