Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Urban Design

Let’s Chop Up Superblocks

By Alex Marshall | Feb 22, 2008 | 22 Comments

Forest City’s Atlantic Yards project would create two massive superblocks in Prospect Hts., Brooklyn Portland, Oregon, which has ascended the ranks of cities judged most walkable, bikable, and urbane, benefits mightily from its small 200-foot square blocks, which provide businesses more street frontage and people more streets on which to bike, cycle and walk. These […]

Ideas Competition for Brooklyn’s Grandest Plaza

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 20, 2008 | 17 Comments

The Grand Army Plaza Coalition (GAPCo) and The Design Trust for Public Space have launched a website for their "Ideas Competition" called Reinventing Grand Army Plaza, which is intended to generate new visions for the plaza’s design. The jury will award three cash prizes to the winners, and along with other top entries will be […]

Citizens Propose Cycle Track Greenway Connector in Inwood

By Brad Aaron | Feb 15, 2008 | 29 Comments

Broadway at Dyckman/200th Street and Riverside Drive: a confusing, foreboding free-for-all Livable streets advocates in Northern Manhattan are proposing a cycle track, similar to the one on Ninth Avenue in Chelsea, to link the Hudson River and Harlem River Greenways at 200th/Dyckman Street in Inwood. Dyckman currently has bike lanes at its east and west […]

City Planning: Fourth Avenue a “Missed Opportunity”

By Ben Fried | Feb 15, 2008 | 29 Comments

The 2nd Street entrance to the Crest, one of the recent additions to Fourth Avenue. After Streetsblog ran a critique of new development on Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue last week, we asked the Department of City Planning to address a few questions that came up in the comments. Namely, what can be done to stop developers […]

Pint-Sized Parks Make Safer Streets and Cleaner Rivers

By Ben Fried | Feb 14, 2008 | 16 Comments

The Greenstreet at 110th and Amsterdam helps keep sewage out of city rivers and features a beefed-up, traffic-calming "blockbuster." It rained yesterday, sending stormwater streaming down New York City streets and through sewer grates. The runoff mixed with wastewater in the system and overloaded treatment facilities, causing raw sewage to spill into the city’s waterways. […]

Drivers Ed. Campaign to Accompany Portland Bike Boxes

By Jason Varone | Feb 14, 2008 | 3 Comments

In an attempt to improve safety at intersections in Portland, Oregon, the Department of Transportation will install the city’s first bike boxes at 14 locations this spring. The city will also launch a marketing campaign, "Get Behind It. The Bike Box: Portland’s New Green Space," intended to educate motorists. As Bikeportland.org reports, large signs will […]

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