Huh?
This is not what you think of when you think of the boulevards of Los Angeles – like Sunset:
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Sunset at Clark in West Hollywood (map here) actually looks like this:
A textbook case of stroadism – as discussed in this post at Spacing Vancouver.
The images above – and several others – are the work of David Yoon, who asked: “Could the entire mood of a neighborhood depend on something as simple as street width?”
That was the question David Yoon, a writer, designer, photographer, and self-confessed urban planning geek living in Los Angeles, asked himself after returning from a trip to Paris. He started documenting existing streets of Los Angeles and narrowing them to see the effects that his manipulations had on the city.
His fictional depictions of the streets, while they are not literal proposals, provide the perfect platform to discuss if another city is possible, one that puts human scale in the foreground.
The adjusted images are so well done, as first glance it’s hard to tell they’ve been manipulated:
FICTIONAL Westwood Blvd & Pico Blvd, West Los Angeles
More here. Thanks to Kent Lundberg.
Yes yes yes. I’ve always loved narrow streets with their playful balance of sun and shade. While Paris’s boulevards are spectacular, the narrow streets are what make it so memorable and so human.
He missed the speed sign in the first picture. 15 would be more appropriate than 35 unless it was km/hr
I imagine the ‘no u-turn’ sign becomes redundant as well.