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Urban Design
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Excellent Street Views: SF Planning Design Principles
SF Planning Department's 'Excellent Street Views' document — a guide to the design principles that make streets walkable and visually engaging. Covers building setbacks, facade continuity, street-level activation, and the visual corridor principles that distinguish human-scale streets from car-oriented ones.
The Lowline: New York's Underground Park of the Future
The Lowline project proposed converting an abandoned 1908 trolley terminal on Manhattan's Lower East Side into an underground park using fiber-optic sunlight delivery technology. An inverse of the High Line — bringing parkland below street level into existing dead infrastructure.