Small Streets

The Port Covington plan for a new urban district in Baltimore includes at least one small street. Looking forward to learning more.

Sagamore Development presents plans for Port Covington business, retail district - Baltimore... Sagamore Development tells city design panel the area will be a major anchor of the massive project.

My love letter to narrow streets They are a wonderful leftover from the pre-automobile era, when the smallest of public roads only needed to be wide enough for pedestrians

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…

On location in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, founded in 1521. This place is fantastic! The only way it could be made better would be to ditch the cars. Folks from the Rust Belt USA would find this fact interesting: the street is made of slag.

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.

This self-described stay-at-home mom turned around an entire block of this small street in Baltimore. Way to go, Diana!

Madeira Street turnaround shows 'any place can be good' On Madeira Street last Thursday, tidy trash cans lined the curb in front of clean brick rowhouses with matching exterior lights. Christmas decorations already framed one doorway.

Once dreaded, D.C. alleys become fun, even chic They used to considered hotbeds of bad behavior. Now, some alleys are centers of communal whimsy.

How do we get all of the participants in development (planners, engineers, architects, developers, investors, lenders, fire departments, construction companies, and marketing people) to work together to create a traditional urban environment?

Getting Other People’s Cooperation | Piscataquis Village Project

When your street is just a surface between buildings, you're "on the street." When your street is a place, you're "in the street." This atypical "no parking" sign shows how small streets change how people think about their streets.

I spot a small street! This is an exciting project.

Work on '£2bn new town' starting Work on a major new town development in Aberdeenshire with a long-term target of 8,000 homes is set to get under way.

In this case, small streets are literally the image of walkability.

How Do the World’s Cities Stack Up on Walkability? Napoli, Italy. Image via: Angelo DeSantis
What makes a great walking city? Wide sidewalks with lots of street life? Low volumes of traffic? Lively pedestrian plazas? Hop-on, hop-off transit?
A group called Walk21 has developed a standardized way to assess the walkability of cities, based on factors