Redesign Your Street

Submitted by Eternity on Tue, 06/02/2009 - 08:06.

Good Magazine - America’s streets leave a lot to be desired. As Carly Clark and Aaron Naparstek write in the latest issue of GOOD, “For the most part, [traffic engineers] viewed the city from behind a windshield and saw the street as a problem to be solved for automobiles. The result is the America city that most of us know today: sprawling, traffic-choked, hostile to pedestrians and cyclists, dependent on a vast, never-ending flow of cheap oil, and deeply unsustainable.”  Click image above, then once linked to site, scroll down to see before and after examples of how Americans have redesigned their streets.

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