The Alfresco NYC coalition collaborated with designers, advocates, and public realm stakeholders across the City to develop policy recommendations and design guidelines for the city’s permanent Open Restaurants program.
As cities continue to repurpose street space amidst the pandemic, RPA is building momentum for large-scale, permanent improvements to prioritize transit, biking, cycling, and walking and make streets safer for everyone. Building on decades of research and advocacy in support of pedestrians, we’re encouraging communities to expand on successful open streets and open dining initiatives, plan for more bus lanes and bike lanes, and empower local businesses.
As COVID changes transportation, let’s make sure it changes for the better.”
How do people walk in a city? This essentially is the subject of this report by Boris Pushkarev with Jeff Zupan. It examines how people navigate on a sidewalk or plaza, how much space they take up, and how much space they need. This was noteworthy in 1975 because so much analysis to-date focused on examining the habits of cars.