We here at World Streets firmly agree that in order to achieve significant policy changes we are all going to have to learn to make use of the full gamut of communication techniques available to us. One of these is striking photographs which one by one start to penetrate the reader’s mental space and in the process provide additional dimensions to their understanding. Thus far we have assembled and shared more than 2000 highly varied and striking photographs and videos from many different places, in an attempt to bring new ideas and perspectives into our mental space and understanding of the issues. When possible, we try to provide information on sources, and in fact we need to do a better job of that in the future.
* If you click the photograph on the page, it will call up a much larger and more striking image.
In a city, as in life, we normally register only what we set out to look for. The anomalies, the absences, the troubling, somehow escape our attention. But when it comes to transport, everywhere the eye might wander there are valuable clues, both visible and invisible, for planners and policy makers. However, if we fail to use our eyes we miss out on valuable information. And as a result our cities do just that much less well.
From the New Mobility Fine Arts Collection: The Inner Eye – Autumn 2016
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In a city, as in life, we normally register only what we set out to look for. The anomalies, the absences, the troubling, somehow escape our attention. But when it comes to transport, everywhere the eye might wander there are valuable clues, both visible and invisible, for planners and policy makers. However, if we fail to use our eyes we miss out on valuable information. And as a result our cities do just that much less well.
STREET SCENES AROUND THE WORLDA selection taken from more than three thousand photographs, cartoons, maps, charts and graffiti from almost as many sources that have appeared in the pages of World Streets since we first went to press in 2009. Many tell stories in themselves which our readers are warmly invited to complete from their own experience and imagination
Depending on the speed of your internet connection you may have to wait some seconds before the first images appear. From then on all you have to do is click the photo to move on to the next one.
The power of images. The power of perspective. It’s pretty clear by now that we are going to need a lot more than walls of words, thick reports and endless expert conferences to turn the world toward sustainability. So to help our cause we invite our readers to jump in and 
share with us striking their “social space” graphics which illustrate in telling ways the world’s streets and all that takes place thereon in many places and in many ways. To get a feel for how this works out using our challenging 980 x 150 pixels format, read on — or if you are in a hurry click here to go direct to the photo gallery. Continue reading
Bus stop in the rain. USA . Source unknown.
When it comes to city streets it is truly weird what we seem to be placidly willing to accept as “normal”.
The following article appeared Malaysiakini, the most read independent news website offering daily news and views in English, Malay, Chinese and Tamil. Reproduced here in its entirety, it is can be consulted directly from the source at http://beta.malaysiakini.com/news/251763. The reader may find some interest in the diversity of views expressed in the Comments which also are reproduced here.
As we are seeing in these pages Penang in general and Georgetown in particular 
are giving attention to the possibility of creating a public bicycle system for the city. As a first step they have issued a Request for Proposals which is shortly to come online. This is a great thing because there are many reasons to create conditions for safe and agreeable cycling on city streets across the state.
The mind. . . yours, mine, theirs. This is the hardest challenge of all, and one that is right at the core of our Sustainable Penang/New Mobility Agenda 
transformation project for 2014 and beyond. Fortunately we are not the only ones since it is the age-old habit of man to lock blindly into old ideas — and particularly all those old ideas which are so omnipresent and unquestioned by all who surround us that they finally become invisible.
How can we change something if we cannot see it? But let’s hear what our old and great friend Jan Gehl has to say about this in a lecture which he gave recently to the annual conference of the European Foundation Centre on “Sustainable Cities: Foundations and our Urban Future” in Copenhagen.
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