"If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places."
– Fred Kent, Project for Public Spaces
New York City, London, Paris, Shanghai, Copenhagen . These world-class cities have begun to dramatically rethink the design of their streets and public squares. From Trafalgar to the Paris Plage, city streets are being transformed from throughways to popular places for residents and visitors to shop, eat, meet, greet, and relax.
Did you miss our March roundtable on Streets as Places? Now you can watch the video, courtesy of CAN-TV.
See and hear how Fred Kent, of Project for Public Spaces, describes what it takes to transform rundown streets into desirable neighborhood places, and Chicago Dept. of Transportation Commissioner Cheri Heramb discusses how the place-oriented street design movement is transforming Chicago 's streets. The video also features Marisa Novara, a member of the Ogden Avenue Redesign Coordinating Committee, Tom Samuels from Ald. Mary Ann Smith’s office (48th Ward), and Tony Smith, practice leader at S.B. Friedman & Company.
This roundtable was co-hosted with the Chicago Architecture Foundation, sponsored by S.B. Friedman & Co and DLK Civic Design, and generously supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.