Street transformation

Adaptive Streets is an illustrated handbook to inspire and guide citizens, planners and officials to re-imagine how our streets can be adapted to increase utility and delight as well as enhance human and environmental health. The book presents a collection of strategies, demonstrating how they can be implemented in prototypical streets. Adaptive Streets can be used as a community empowerment tool to create new visions to transform the right-of-way.

Mayor Anne Hidalgo is running for reelection with the idea of making the city a place where everyone can reach their work, home, and any amenity within a 15-minute bike ride.

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Pedestrian friendly street design

This looks so cool! Before and after photographs of a recent installation in Rionegro, Colombia. The location is near a hospital and the aim was to calm traffic, create more accessible space for pedestrians and positively impact this shared social space. Co-design: Ivan Acevedo and John Ortiz from IAA Studio. @iacevedoarch @johnoctavioortiz Image from Twitter Iván Acevedo @ivanacevedog and Instagram @bid_ciudades #supergraphic #TacticalUrbanism

Who has the right to the city? While giving priority to pedestrians may seem obvious, many cities have been built around reliance on the automobile and now struggle to reclaim…

A colorful, tree-lined pedestrian mall replaces a congested vehicular thoroughfare, significantly improving the quality of life in downtown Denver.

Amazing before-and-after images of people-friendly public spaces.

From an intersection in San Francisco to a small parking lot in Brooklyn, city planners and urban designers are finding new ways to use city space.