Narrow street design

Photos by Mike Chino for Inhabitat

Curb extensions visually and physically narrow the roadway, creating safer and shorter crossings for pedestrians while increasing the available space for street furniture, benches, plantings, and street trees. They may be implemented on downtown, neighborhood, and residential streets, large and small. Curb extensions have multiple applications and may be segmented into various sub-categories, ranging from…

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For residents and tourists alike, these vibrant markets have become destinations all their own, offering savory dining to grab-and-go shopping.

*CORRECTION* Also survived by brothers, Rudy and Nacho. (Full notice ran Sunday.)

Daldy and Halsey streets are two of the three key north-south connections in Wynyard Quarter. Running between Fanshawe Street and Jellicoe Street. The Daldy...

Adaptive Streets is an illustrated handbook to inspire and guide citizens, planners and officials to re-imagine how our streets can be adapted to increase utility and delight as well as enhance human

Go to any medieval European city and you will see what streets looked like before the advent of the car: lovely, small narrow lanes, intimate, and...

This project forms part of the revitalisation of RMIT University’s public realm, transforming under-utilised spaces into a vivid and welcoming place. This is achieved at Rodda Lane by stitching together the warren of back-of-house laneways to provide a new focal point to the city campus through the addition of outdoor flexible spaces to improve student amenity.

Image 2 of 17 from gallery of The Linear House / The Company of Design. Photograph by Ishita Sitwala

This picture is the diagram and sketch I draw to show how I design a pedestrian-center street in the S Clark St. This street is about 24M. Except keeping two travel lane, I add the parking place for cars . Each side has enough sidewalk and the street furniture as well. Furniture includes the seating for people relax,bike locks which service the bike path and green plants What's more, I also design the activity space next to the sidewalk including cafe seating , shopping and eating .

The street of 1000 red jars. The Former French Concession has long put its stamp on this part of Shanghai, and it’s obviously an honour for a French architect to design an urban space here in tune with its urbanism, its plane trees, narrow streets, and inhabited landscapes.

New markings are on the ground delineating the short two-way bikeway linking the Market and Octavia intersection to Valencia Street and the future site of the McCoppin Hub plaza. SFMTA crews made the improvements two weeks ago, according to the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. The pedestrian and bicycle shortcut has existed for years, but the new […]