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Among an architect's ten suggestions for taming New York City's streets is creating more mental speed bumps:
A community project called Ninth Avenue Renaissance...proposes the use of on-street parking spaces on Ninth Avenue in Manhattan for barbecues and the like, adding a dose of intrigue to the street scene that will lead motorists to become curious, and slow down. "New York has these sorts of mental speed bumps," said Mr. Kent, of the Project for Public Spaces, "but we've slowly degraded them by designing a more and more frictionless city for fast walkers and fast drivers." But street-level friction, he said, is actually good.
Street barbecues would be awesome. Similar is last fall's National PARK(ing) Day, where parking spaces were turned into temporary mini-parks.
Apr. 7, '08
design
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