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Envisioning an Upper West Side Streets Renaissance

11:18 AM EST on November 6, 2007

If you're thinking about coming to tonight's Upper West Side workshop with Jan Gehl but you are having trouble picturing what a "Streets Renaissance" might look like, the video above was made for you. It consists of a series of photo simulations produced by New York City Streets Renaissance Creative Director Carly Clark.

Whipped into a StreetFilm by Clarence Eckerson and set to some bumpin' electronic dance music, the photo sims seek to answer questions like: What if Amsterdam Avenue were a "complete street" rather than a 5-lane highway, or a stretch of Broadway were turned over to pedestrians, or a neighborhood street were designed to accommodate community life rather than traffic throughput and automobile storage? Watch out. By the end of this one minute video you might be dancing.

You can find three more short Upper West Side StreetFilms and a bit more of Carly's photo sim work here:

    • Redesigning Amsterdam Avenue for People Rather Than Speeding Traffic (1:03)
    • The Perverse Allocation of Streets Space on the Upper West Side (1:24)
    • Is SUV Storage the Best Use of Upper West Side Street Space? (1:02)

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