Tag Archive for 'Livable Streets'

Summer Streets

Published
by
Mike Lydon
on August 12, 2008
in Uncategorized
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Summer Streets 2008 (NYC)

The above video link from StreetFilms displays what can happen when a city realizes that streets are for living, not just for moving automobiles.

Modeled after Bogota, Columbia’s Ciclovia, New York City’s Summer Streets program is closing 7 miles of major thoroughfares for three separate Saturday’s during the month of August. The first event was held last Saturday and exceeded all expectations. I imagine NYC will take this from an experiment to a regular weekend event in a short amount of time. Congrats to all who mad Summer Streets such a success.

Here in Miami, where we can have summer streets all year long, the Bicycle Advisory Committee is working with the Mayor’s office and government officials to produce something similar. Stay tuned.

Livable Streets Quote

Published
by
Gabriel Lopez-Bernal
on June 6, 2008
in Livable Neighborhoods and livable cities
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“People have always lived on streets. They have been the places where children first learned about the world, where neighbors met, the social centers of towns and cities, the rallying points for revolts, the scenes of repression… The street has always been the scene of this conflict, between living and access, between resident and traveler, between street life and the threat of death.”

-Donald Appleyard