Posts Tagged ‘streetfilms’

Inspiration for the Copenhagenization the rest of the world
With the Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen remains very much in the news especially on the bike front. As a city with a dominate car culture until the 1970s, Copenhagen pulled back from the gasoline induced sprawl most of the Western world embraced and now has 37% of [...]

In a followup to yesterday’s post about creating a Nueces Street Bike Boulevard and next Wednesday’s design open house, StreetFilms just released this great video of what makes bike boulevards work and the idea of creating living streets, streets for people instead of streets for cars.

Also included was a link to a guide book for [...]

As part of a movement to reclaim public space from cars for people, PARKing Day was established a few years ago in New York City. All over the city, individuals take over on street parking spaces and set up seating and place space for anyone who wants to join in. StreetFilms captured this year’s NYC [...]

I did not get around to posting these on Friday but still wanted to share. The first video comes from last weekend’s Double Down Ladies’ Alleycat Race.

The second is a great video from StreetsFilms critiquing various locking jobs on bikes on the streets of New York. The host appears to be the same bike mechanic [...]

This  Streetfilms video about Madison Square in New York has a lot of footage of citizen feedback, better illustrations of what was actually done to an area of chaotic, wide roads to transform the area into a great space for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists alike. It shows what can be accomplished with a minimal budget [...]