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In the Future, the City’s Streets Are to Behave

By DAVID W. CHEN

Published: May 20, 2009

The city’s first street design manual aims to get people to think about streets as not just for cars, but as public spaces incorporating safety, aesthetics and environmental concerns.

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Robert Moses, Mr. Bloomberg is not.

“Moses had a sort of utopian view of orderly, suburban places that de-emphasized New York’s ‘cityness,’ while Bloomberg embraces the soul of the city itself and recognizes it as a solution to the region’s environmental, sustainability, and energy problems,” said Robert Puentes, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program.