Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Livable Streets

Revisiting Donald Appleyard’s “Livable Streets”

By Elizabeth Press | Nov 1, 2010 | No Comments

You may have wondered, while watching a Streetfilm or reading a post on Streetsblog, where we got the term “livable streets.” The answer can be found in the work of Donald Appleyard, a scholar who studied the neighborhood environment and the ways planning and design can make life better for city residents. In 1981, Appleyard […]

MAS Survey: New York City Is Livable But Not Everyone Benefits Equally

By Noah Kazis | Oct 21, 2010 | 3 Comments

New Yorkers think their city is very livable, a new survey conducted by the Municipal Art Society shows, but livability isn’t equitably distributed across the five boroughs. To make the city truly livable, said panelists today at an MAS conference, New York needs to figure out how to bring its best features to all neighborhoods. […]

Bill Thompson Was for Bike Lanes Before He Was Against Them

By Brad Aaron | Sep 22, 2009 | 35 Comments

The current iteration of Grand Street, by most any objective measure, has to be considered a success. In the year since it was reconfigured to host the city’s first parking-protected bike lane, with the blessing of Community Board 2, injuries are down 30 percent, with about 1,000 cyclists using the lane daily. Thompson tells NY1 […]

Did Bill Thompson Get a Copy of Today’s Fake Post? [Updated]

By Brad Aaron | Sep 21, 2009 | No Comments

The latest production of the Yes Men hit the streets and the Web today: an Onion-esque "Special Edition" of the New York Post devoted completely to climate change, released ahead of this week’s global summit at UN headquarters. Coming in at 32 pages in print, there’s a lot here to digest — including a fun […]

What Should We Learn From Moses and Jacobs?

By Ryan Avent | Sep 9, 2009 | 13 Comments

There is probably no more beloved figure in urbanism than Jane Jacobs, who fought to preserve some of New York City’s most treasured neighborhoods and who gave urbanists some of the field’s fundamental texts. As Ed Glaeser notes in the New Republic this week, Jacobs died in 2006 "a cherished, almost saintly figure," while her […]

Happy Labor Day Weekend

By Brad Aaron | Sep 4, 2009 | 6 Comments

With summer winding down, we can expect to see a big push ahead of the September 15 primaries. Hope the long weekend leaves you refreshed and ready. If you need inspiration, click over to nycbikemaps’ YouTube channel for more videos like this one, showcasing some of what livable streets advocates have helped achieve as of […]

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