New York's streets are as gritty as the city's reputation, traffic-clogged canyons of concrete where jaded foot-travelers and cyclists jostle and growl, exulting all the while. (Stared down a Hummer lately?) Yet street reformers from around the globe are increasingly turning to the city's 5,800 miles of streets, sidewalks, and highways, dreaming up ideas -- be they modest or unbound -- to radically transform the urban experience. Here are ten mutinous proposals.
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Praise
- "Urban design, it turns out, is as much about subtraction as addition. With matchless wit, Jeff Byles explores the American obsession with demolishing our architectural past. He’s the poet laureate of those unsung heroes: the 'unbuilders.'" —Mike Davis, author of Dead Cities
