Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car-Free Streets

Bike Miami: Car-Free Under the Palm Trees

By Ben Fried | Nov 10, 2008 | 1 Comment

Yesterday Miami became the latest American city to pull off a big car-free event, when an estimated 2,000 people (including mayor Manny Diaz) took to the streets for Bike Miami. Mike Lydon at Transit Miami reports: South Miami Avenue was much more like an urban plaza than a street. Did you notice how the cafe […]

Streetfilms: Chicago’s Sunday Parkways

By Ben Fried | Nov 3, 2008 | No Comments

Streetfilms contributor Nicholas Whitaker files this report from Chicago, which put on a pair of major car-free events last month called Sunday Parkways. Recently Streetfilms has also covered car-free events in New York, Portland and San Francisco, and like the Summer Streets video, this one features a guest turn from Gil Peñalosa, one of the […]

Jan Gehl Says San Francisco Must be Sweet to Pedestrians and Cyclists

By Matthew Roth | Oct 8, 2008 | 7 Comments

It’s a good day in a city’s urbanist evolution when Jan Gehl comes to town, and now San Francisco can add itself to the growing list of cities around the world that have embraced his people-first approach to urban design and planning. Hoping to keep pace with the progress in New York City over the […]

Streetfilms: San Francisco’s Sunday Streets

By Brad Aaron | Sep 18, 2008 | 2 Comments

On the heels of New York’s Summer Streets, San Francisco opened up segments of its waterfront roadways to thousands of pedestrians, cyclists, skaters and dancers. Streetfilms contributor John Hamilton was on hand for Sunday Streets, and shows us how they go car-free in the Bay Area.

San Francisco Debuts Car-Free “Sunday Streets”

By Brad Aaron | Sep 5, 2008 | 6 Comments

San Francisco held its inaugural car-free "Sunday Streets" event last weekend. New Yorker Jen Petersen was there and files this report. Whatever the weather, San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf doesn’t suffer from a shortage of dollar-shelling, strolling tourists on weekends, and so clearing street space for more people-powered mobility on a sunny morning had instant takers. […]

Wiki Wednesday: Quartier Vauban, Freiburg, Germany

By Brad Aaron | Aug 27, 2008 | 2 Comments

This week’s StreetsWiki feature takes us to the Quartier Vauban in Freiburg, Germany. With an area of 84 acres, the Quartier Vauban is a neighborhood of 5,000 people, designed and built as a sustainable community between 1993 and 2006. Contributor Kyle Gradinger writes that the Vauban "represents the state of the art in environmental protection […]

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