ONE can still see the remnants of the housing boom across America: developments in which streets were platted, concrete poured for the foundations of homes and pipes laid all over for sewer, water and gas.
This "day of the book and the rose" is a Valentine's day of sorts in which streets are packed with stalls, and couples demonstrate their love by exchanging roses and books – giving publishers a massive boost along the way.
Urban transport is, Sadik-Khan argues, amid a "Copernican revolution" in which streets are remodelled around human beings, whether walking, cycling or on buses, rather than alone inside a speeding metal box.
Visually, Her is stunning, the contemporary vistas of Shanghai adding to the mesmerising portrait of near-future LA in which streets shimmer and shine, and people bathe in the light of hi-def screens and glowing personal appliances, each locked into their own virtual world.
A few years ago, a suicide-prevention group, Lifelink, conducted a minute analysis of suicide in Japan: it was necessary to make strategies of prevention more precise, Lifelink believed — to know exactly who was committing suicide, in which streets, in which buildings, by what methods, and at which times of the day, as though with enough factors in place you could almost catch someone in the act.
The Ciclovías comprise worldwide programs in which streets are closed to motor-vehicles and open to individuals for leisure activities.
All that is missing is the supermarket trolley in which street people traditionally carry around their worldly goods.
That dissatisfaction has been worsened by an urban crisis here in which street crime and police violence are both increasing and public services are decaying.
In his show on Thursday, which was terrific fun, he paid tribute to the way in which street fashion, say in Berkeley, Calif., made iconic the oat-bran-toned bulky sweaters and knit hats of South America and Central America.
"Trivialised" is a word Zakira uses frequently to describe the way in which street harassment is dealt with in India; it is seen as the "price you pay" for being a woman.
Last October, the Asian American Legal Defense Fund and two other advocacy groups announced a settlement of another case in which Street Beat agreed to pay them $85,000 in legal fees and damages.
