Street Art
SEE IT: Streets Can Be So Much More than Car Sewers
Vital City asked architects and designers to re-envision concrete and pavement without cars. The results were awesome.
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June 30, 2023
‘Playable’ Cities Are the Next Public-Space Frontier
How everyday infrastructure and street furniture can stoke human imagination — and contribute to residents' well being.
September 22, 2021
Op-Ed: Let’s Pay Artists to Make ‘Open Streets’ Better
The burgeoning open streets movement brought on by the pandemic has created more space for people, provided lessons in how to quickly test ideas successfully (like in Minneapolis and Oakland) and unsuccessfully (like in New York City), and shown that the responses by cities to rapidly changing needs can be equally rapid. (Plenty of other cities, including our home base of Washington, DC, have tried almost nothing, instead leaving people at risk on crowded sidewalks while wide streets sit empty and wasted as trips have evaporated.)
May 4, 2020
