Small Streets
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Our current approach to town building prioritizes the movement of automobiles at the expense of neighborhood streets at the human scale.
10/13/2015
When you can fit a building in your street and there's still room for cars, your streets are definitely far, far too wide! This is a step in the right direction for Salt Lake City.
Salt Lake City Wants to Put Buildings In the Medians of Its Extra-Wide Streets A few months ago I wrote about a proposal to fix the housing crisis in San Francisco by building skinny apartments in the medians of its streets. Little did I know this idea was already being prototyped in a place that has even bigger streets than San Francisco, due to its unique development history…
05/06/2015
How to make cities more livable in the USA, where streets are very wide? Construct buildings in the roadway to turn that one over-sized street into two people-centered small streets. http://narrowstreetssf.com/
Building streets for humans rather than cars could help solve the affordable housing crisis Replacing wide streets with narrow ones opens up tons of new land for desperately needed urban houses.
02/25/2014
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