Interesting that all it took to transform a tourist trap that locals avoided into a prominent gathering space (and center of gravity that the crossroads of the world was meant to be), was removing the traffic.
It should be difficult to drive (and park!) in cities, particularly the downtown cores.
NYC is generally always ahead of the curve in the States. It will be interesting to see the lag time on this "fashion" trend of people first design and planning.
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Did RTKL enter this competition?
http://www.urbanrevision.com/ReVision-DALLAS-Results
Got a chance to be in NYC last week. The closed off sections of Times Square and Herald Square seem to have transformed those areas and created fantastic piazza-like places for people to mill about. Very enticing spaces after wandering the wearying grid of midtown.
Also, everywhere I turned there seemed to be spaces reclaimed for pedestrians - plazas in the Meatpacking District, bike lanes in the West Village, new park space along the Hudson.
thanks for the update Ben.
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