Thursday, May 03, 2007
Great streets, campuses, and pedestrian nostalgia
bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/great-streets-campuses-and-pedestrian.html
1) A "street" is not simply space devoted to automobiles. It's a place of movement, outdoors, that connects different destinations.
2) Cities could be designed to look like college campuses, full of trees and paths and benches and interchangeable varieties of long walks between different locations – whether those locations are churches, bookstores, police stations, football stadiums, private homes, or hash bars.
3) The reason you need a car is because you're surrounded by highways and parking lots – it's not the other way around. City planners need to realize this.
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