A New Way of Understanding 'Eyes on the Street'

You can’t make people watch streets they do not want to watch. Safety on the streets by surveillance and mutual policing of one another sounds grim, but in real life it is not grim. The safety of the street works best, most casually, and with least frequent taint of hostility or suspicion precisely where people are using and most enjoying the streets voluntarily and are least conscious, normally, that they are policing.




http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/07/new-way-understanding-eyes-street/6276/

Streets as Places

I wish I could go to this.

What We Lose When Kids Can't Play in Their Own Streets

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/02/what-we-lose-when-kids-cant-play-their-own-streets/4789/

Play Streets Program NYC

While awaiting the completion of New York City’s next batch of parks and playgrounds, the Departments of Health & Mental Hygiene, Transportation, and Parks have created Play Streets to help combat the childhood obesity epidemic in our cities. Play Streets allows communities to open up their streets to pedestrians for play on a recurrent basis. It is a quick and low-cost way to create active play space and is a health measure that directly targets our city’s most important at–risk population—children.



http://www.nycgovparks.org/programs/playstreets

An App That Tells You How Walkable a Street Really Is

Wow, so cool!

I like this, "I feel cool just being here!"

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2013/02/app-tells-you-how-walkable-street-really/4759/

Murder and Freezing Temps... a connection I've been curious of

NYC Has 9 Days Without Murder, Thanks To Freezing Temps

“Some have argued that there is something about cold that actually inhibits aggression — literally the effect that cold has on the brain,” said Ellen G. Cohn, a professor of criminal justice at Florida International University. She added, however, that she believed cold reduced violence primarily for a different reason: fewer people are likely to be on the streets, which, she said, means “victims and offenders are less likely to come into contact with each other."

http://gothamist.com/2013/01/26/nyc_has_9_days_without_murder_thank.php

Urban Farming on the Streets of Paris