What does it take to improve your city in a major way? If you assume that you need massive quantities of money and many years of effort to achieve any kind of transformative change, you would be wrong.
Check out the TED Talk below from Janette Sadik-Khan, New York City’s transportation commissioner. Sadik-Khan describes how Times Square (and many other areas in New York) was converted from car-crazed chaos to pedestrian paradise with little more than new street paint and a bunch of lawn chairs.
What do you think? What are some other ideas that can improve your city quickly and cheaply?
John Karras believes that all communities have the potential to become more vibrant. John’s professional passions are aligned at the three-way intersection of urban planning, economic development and transportation policy. John founded urbanSCALE.com to empower urban planning and economic development professionals with the knowledge and tools needed to make their communities more vibrant. John is also the creator of the urbanSCALE Rating System, the first comprehensive measure of how urban a city is on a scale of 1 to 10.
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