LIVABLE CITIES MADE OF LIVABLE STREETS

m o r e (good city living)

According to the online community, Livable Streets, 6.5 billion humans now live in cities (of which I am one). And that's not always a pretty picture. But perhaps it could be if we devoted more of our street space to pedestrians and cyclists, town centers and public plazas (an idea that New Urbanists like those interviewed in The End of Suburbia support).

That's the idea with Livable Streets. To redesign thoroughfares to be pro people (and pro alternative transportation and pro oil-independent, healthy communities at the same time). 

If you live in New York, L.A., San Francisco, or on Capitol Hill, there's a Livable Streets Blog to check out to see the green street movement in your community. Or get involved in any city, on any road.

Also, loving the videos in the StreetFilms section on biking, rude drivers, walking to school, and this one, on the education and efforts of some cute, committed Brooklyn students.

There's an international conference also working for mixed-use neighborhoods that make people feel like walking, all around the world.

And see the difference it can make when an intersection is transformed to be more a livable street at GOOD. And even more designed by its readers.

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