Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Urban Design

PlanNYC 2030: What makes a Community Sustainable?

By Glenn McAnanama | | 4 Comments
A few weeks ago I attended the first of the Community Leader meetings for the PlanNYC 2030 Sustainability initiative. I thought Streetsblog readers might be interested in some reflections on this from a neighborhood environmentalist perspective. All and all, I’m extremely happy that this initiative is moving forward and the city is starting to take a long term […]

DOT Pledged Ped Safety Fixes by 2006 on Deadly Third Ave

By Aaron Naparstek | | 16 Comments
New York City’s Department of Transportation failed to follow through on a 2004 pledge to build potentially life-saving pedestrian safety improvements along the Third Avenue corridor where a 4-year-old boy was run over and killed last Tuesday. DOT’s announcement of $4 million in funding for the installation of "median extensions, neckdowns and other traffic-calming" measures […]

Plan Urged Safety Measures for Intersection Where Boy Died

By Aaron Naparstek | | 16 Comments
The May 2003 final report of the Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project recommended pedestrian safety measures designed specifically to prevent the kind of collision that killed a four-year-old boy in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn on Tuesday afternoon.  A graphic from the Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project final plan showing pedestrian safety recommendations for Third […]

Robert Moses’s Fundamental Misunderstanding

By Jason Varone | | 30 Comments
In the latest issue of the Regional Plan Association’s Spotlight on the Region newsletter, editor Alex Marshall has an outstanding essay responding to the recent burst of Robert Moses revisionism. An excerpt:   It all comes down to capacity. Like many people of his generation, I’m convinced, Moses essentially didn’t understand the different capabilities of […]
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