Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Public Space

NYC Finally Cracking Down on Security Barriers

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 9, 2006 | 1 Comment

In the aftermath of September 11th, concrete and steel barriers sprouted like mushrooms around big buildings in New York City. It almost seemed to me to be a kind of status symbol. You knew you worked in an important building if your landlord had hardened it against truck bombs. The barriers were often ugly and […]

Eyes on the Street: Amsterdam

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 6, 2006 | 8 Comments

After Copenhagen, I visited Holland for a few days as a part of my German Marshall Fellowship. I will be writing more about some of the people I met and spoke with there, but for now I just wanted to share these photos from Amsterdam: For me, one of the things that makes Amsterdam and […]

Notes on Bicycling in Copenhagen

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 4, 2006 | 20 Comments

Copenhagen, Denmark is not a natural bicycling city. In the early 1960’s it was very much of a car town. In 1962 the city created its first pedestrian street, the Stroget, and every year since then Copenhagen has allocated more and more of its public space to bicycles, pedestrians and people who just want to sit […]

Traffic’s Human Toll

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 3, 2006 | No Comments

For the last two years or so Transportation Alternatives’ Karla Quintero has been working on a New York City-based update of the famous "Appleyard Study" examining the social costs of traffic. Karla presented the study’s preliminary findings last year at a forum I helped organize in Brooklyn and it was really interesting. This event is sure to be a […]

Danish Bike Cargo

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 3, 2006 | 12 Comments

How do you measure a city’s bike-friendliness? Do you count the number of lane miles, daily commuters or annual injuries? Here is one set of metrics that I found in Copenhagen:

Central Park(ing Lot)

By Aaron Donovan | Sep 29, 2006 | 10 Comments

Ed. Note: This has got to be the best item ever to come to us via a Streetsblog tipster. We love the photos! Got a post you’d like to share? You know what to do. Recent reports have drawn attention to city officials abusing their parking privileges around municipal buildings in crowded commercial districts. Images of portly desk-sitting bureaucrats […]

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