Streetfilms footage of Downton Crossing, a neighborhood in Boston with a very robust pedestrian network.
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STREETFILMS: A Lovely Pedestrian Network in Boston
Wednesday, May 31st, 2017Streetfilms: NYC Gets a Car-Free Broadway for Earth Day 2017
Monday, April 24th, 2017This year for NYC’s 2nd Car-Free NYC Earth Day, things picked up considerably from last year’s inaugural event. The big spectacle was that you could walk or bike up Broadway from Union Square all the way to Times Square on car-free streets. But in a way since the Science March was already coming down Broadway to 47th street from the north, many people were able to traverse it all the way to Columbus Circle.
View this complete post...New York City: Multimodal Symphony
Thursday, April 13th, 201724 hours of transit in New York City. Made with Processing and Unfolding Maps.
View this complete post...STREETFILMS— Sneckdown Legitimized: Real World Applications from NYC Streets
Wednesday, April 5th, 2017Every time I post a new video on the sneckdown phenomenon, I get all sorts of comments, emails and tweets on social media that it will never work. That you can’t justify the idea. That I should “stop hating on cars”. That no matter how well done, the video showing sneckdowns 10 feet from the curb that have been there for weeks (that drivers are successful navigating) that they couldn’t work. That we still need all the asphalt for video and that pedestrians are second class citizens.
View this complete post...Hip Hop Architecture Camp Soundtrack
Friday, March 24th, 2017The Hip Hop Architecture Camp was created by The Hip Hop Architect and is an initiative of The Urban Arts Collective with the mission is to introduce traditionally marginalized or underrepresented youth to architecture, urban planning and economic development through the lens of Hip Hop culture. The initiative allows students and community members to engage in re-mixing the visions for their communities and neighborhoods in ways that are culturally relevant, sustaining, and responsive during an intensive one week camp. The one week camps are structure for four different learning levels; grades 4-6, middle school, high school and college.
View this complete post...Streetfilms: What it was like to bike in NYC 15 years ago (bikeTV)
Wednesday, February 15th, 2017Back in January 2002, I recorded my commute and what it was like to ride in our very best existing – but mostly troubled – bike lanes in NYC. The footage is amazing showing how frustrating it used to be!
View this complete post...White House Chronicle: Infrastructure Revitalization with Steven CF Anderson, Managing Director, InfrastructureUSA
Wednesday, February 8th, 2017Steven CF Anderson, Managing Director of Infrastructure USA, talks about the impact infrastructure deficiencies have on our economy and daily lives.
View this complete post...Streetfilms & Streetsblog: The First Ten Years
Monday, November 28th, 2016This film showcases only a small portion of the work that thousands of volunteers and advocates have put in but begins its tale with the NYC Streets Renaissance, a synergy of advocacy groups that banded together in 2005 to try to rally people and tell them the public space outside could change and that there were best practices all over the world to admire.
View this complete post...Streetfilms: NYC Buses – Time for a Turnaround
Friday, September 30th, 2016Transit advocates knew something was wrong when they observed declining bus system ridership in spite of increasing population, a growing economy, and record-high subway ridership. To figure out what could be done about it, they spoke to industry experts and researched successful efforts in peer cities to identify common sense solutions to NYC’s bus problems. This research is summarized in their report “Turnaround: Fixing New York City’s Buses”.
View this complete post...What are the health and climate benefits of offshore wind farms?
Friday, August 5th, 2016This Harvard researcher created a model in which an offshore wind farm that could power most of Washington D.C. could also save 50 lives per year and generate $690 million per year in climate and health benefits. Dr. Jonathan Buonocore, Program Leader of our Climate, Energy, and Health Program, talks about the science behind “Health and Climate Benefits of Offshore Wind Facilities in the Mid-Atlantic United States,” a paper he and colleagues from Synapse Energy Economics, University of Delaware, and Boston University published in Environmental Research Letters.
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