Pedestrian Only/Carfree Archive
Video of the first car-free street day in Manhattan: Thanks to Streetfilms! August 9, 2008 will go down in history as
Summer street closings all the rage: Tomorrow marks the first day of NYC’s Summer Streets program when 7
Williamsburg Walks: Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s main street, is pedestrian-only on four Saturdays from
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Maryland’s first pedestrian-only mixed-use lane: Maryland’s first pedestrian-only street in several decades, Ellsworth Drive, was profiled in
Maryland’s first pedestrian-only district: Ok, so those who’ve been down Silver Spring’s Ellsworth Drive in Downtown
NYC’s stunning ‘streets to plazas’ program: A popular item on many a creatives‘ wishlist is to see a
NY to close major streets to cars on August saturdays: Emerging generations want more pedestrian areas, less traffic-congested streets. In Manhattan, pedestrians
The pedestrian lanes of Melbourne [Streetfilms]: As we gradually evolve from an auto-oriented infrastructure to a more pedestrian-oriented
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Sign of things to come: Carfree conference comes to the U.S.: What’s a carfree conference? That’s probably what most U.S. citizens would wonder
La Rambla – one of the world’s greatest pedestrian streets: La Rambla, which translates to ‘intermittent water flow’, is the iconic hub
NYC ‘Taking Back the Streets: Anyone familiar with New York City, especially Manhattan knows that there simply
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Car free ‘natural cultural districts’ in the U.S.: While there are 41 entries on the list of car free places
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The definitive list of car free places: …is on Wikipedia’s list of car free places. Now the first thing
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Pedestrian walk in NYC? ‘Hey, let’s try it: Apparently that was the attitude of New York’s (DOT) Department of Transportation,
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‘The party that everyone attends’… on the highway: 30 years ago, some creative minds in Bogota, Colombia launched an experiment
Manhattan loses an intersection, gains a plaza: A year ago we profiled a neighborhood effort in Manhattan’s tony Meatpacking
New terms for pedestrian-only streets (2 of 2): Ah, the power of crowdsourcing… Realizing the need for a new generation
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New set of terms needed for pedestrian-only streets: Pedestrian-only street. It’s the primary term used to describe a street for
Cities celebrating pedestrians in a big way each week: El Paso, Texas is a big city (pop. 600,000) without much buzz
The piazzas are coming…: True piazzas (pedestrian-oriented plazas completely enclosed by buildings, ringed by restaurants and
What will the next generation of Manhattan look like?: No cars on 42nd Street, for starters, if Vision42 is executed, an
Cultivating your own ‘Temple Bar’ district: As profiled in the previous entry, the Temple Bar quarter is a
…or maybe some oddballs walked: In our tribute to Jane Jacobs this week, the following is classic
Public squares making a comeback in a big way: How can a city best create a strong identity for itself, provide
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MILES of pedestrian-oriented street: Why is it that the most pedestrian-oriented streets in the U.S. are
San Francisco’s hidden alley destination: As they say, “If San Francisco had a French quarter, Belden Place
Since when does dining in an alley provide a great view?: The answer? When you focus on designing great alleys. Narrow, pedestrian-only streets
How to do a pedestrian street right: For a vibrant, active, economically successful pedestrian street (paseo), it must have
Is it time for the return of the pedestrian street?: Hundreds of pedestrian malls built in downtowns across the country in the
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