[sustran] [World Streets] Honk! Livable Streets Promised Land

[Eric Britton (Paris, France)]

[http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/transparency/web/0904/livable-streets.html]
This just in from our friends over at Livable Streets and Streetsblog
in New York City.

We share this with you because we have long been convinced that one of
the keys to the kinds of pattern breaks which are needed to make our
cities more sustainable and people-friendly are precisely these skills
of convincing visualization to show in very concrete terms what the
changes are going to bring about. When this is well done, it helps to
take the fear of uncertainty out – most of us after all are not
necessarily welcoming of change. Particularly when the future being
proposed to us is not all that familiar.

If you click here you will be taken to the front door of this entry,
which will one click later take you to their “photosim” interactive
graphic. You will also be invited to join their (free) Livable Streets
Initiative (very handy and highly recommended) as well as invited to
join their contest with a two-step before-and-after picture simulation
of a project you would like to see in your own city. And if you do,
make sure to share it with us here on World Streets. This kind of
change management is of interest to us all.

Note: Strongly recommend you have a look at the comments which are
coming in on their site. Some of them are very challenging and very
sensible.

The Editor


>From Livable:
Here's a nice visual of what cities will look like when the livable
streets movement has completely emerged from the wilderness (sorry for
the extended metaphor, couldn't help it today). GOOD Magazine ran this
photosim done by our very own Carly Clark in their transportation
issue, with text by Streetsblog Editor-in-Chief Aaron Naparstek.
They've got a whole interactive graphic that walks you through the
elements of a livable street, and -- hats off to my coworkers -- it
looks great.

GOOD is also putting on a photosim contest where readers can submit
their own designs for a livable street. If you send something in, don't
worry too hard about impressing the jury. Aaron will be the only judge.

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Posted By Eric Britton (Paris, France) to World Streets at 4/10/2009
11:47:00 AM
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