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Streetfilms: Curbing Cars in Soho
You've got to hand it to Clarence Eckerson. The producer of Streetfilms managed to turn around a video of this morning's press conference announcing the new Bruce Schaller study of Soho streets (PDF) in less than four hours and it's a really nice piece of work. My only gripe is that he edited out the taxi cab blasting its horn in the middle of Schaller's talk. Anyway, here is video of this morning's press conference including lots of great, weekend footage of Soho streets:
December 14, 2006
Rethinking Soho
A Porsche, an ambulette, Paul Steely White, Bruce Schaller and a vendor compete for street space in Soho
December 14, 2006
Three Concrete Proposals for New York City Traffic Relief
This Morning's Forum: Road Pricing Worked in London. Can It Work in New York?
December 7, 2006
NYPD Has Spent $1.32M to Suppress a Monthly Bike Ride
Charles Komanoff, flanked by Marquez Claxton and Norman Siegel, at City Hall this morning.
November 16, 2006
Eat More Carbohydrates, Burn More Hydrocarbons
Jacobsen's study has been mentioned in several news stories lately. The Washington Post quotes him as saying:
November 2, 2006
Sneak Preview of Bloomberg’s 21st Century Urban Vision
As reported in today's Observer a team working under Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff has, for the last year or so, been secretly developing a sweeping, new urban planning vision for New York City. In its scope and ambition, the Observer compares the plan to the 1811 layout of Manhattan's street grid system and the 1929 Regional Plan that gave us many of today's highways and parks.
August 16, 2006