Apr 10 2020 43 mins 2
In this episode, we check-in with Mike Lydon of Street Plans in Brooklyn, NY and discuss the on-the-ground impacts of the pandemic he's seeing in NYC and monitoring worldwide.
We cover and mention a lot of issues including:
Street Plans, The firm he founded along with Tony Garcia
Tactical Urbanism Book
Tactical Urbanism Guides
The recent CNU On the Park Bench Webinar video and presentation
COVID19 Livable Streets Response Strategies Spreadsheet
COVID-19 The Public Realm Photos
NYC Response to COVID-19
Streetsblog article about slowing traffic down and park strategies
Quiet Streets Massengale Op-Ed
Bogata COVID-19 Bike Lanes Response
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Credits:
All video and audio production by John Simmerman
Music:
All Night Instrumental by Bobby Cole via AudioBlocks.com
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Background:
Hi Everyone, my name is John Simmerman.
I’m a health promotion professional with over 30 years of experience and my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization of how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.
In 2012 I launched the non-profit Advocates for Healthy Communities as an effort to help promote and create healthy, active places.
Since that time, I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be, in order to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities."
My Active Towns suite of channels feature my original video and audio content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them.
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