9 April 2009

It’s easy to forget that our streets are alterable. They weren’t set down by God on the eighth day; they were designed by human beings. Unfortunately, throughout the 20th century, most of the human beings designing our streets were traffic engineers.

Lord have mercy on our traffic engineers! (I’m sure they aren’t all that bad.) Aaron Naparstek at Good Magazine shares an interactive graphic showing one such street ‘photoshopped’, depicting how awesome it could be if it was designed with people in mind, not just automobile traffic.

This is why I love design so much. Things can be a lot better than they are.