For further reading on this positive movement:

Presentation for Public Spaces (pps.org) presentation on the idea of Streets as Places (March 15, 2007)

http://www.slideshare.net/metroplanning/project-for-public-spaces-streets-as-places/

Advice on “How to do a pedestrian street right”

http://www.cooltownstudios.com/mt/archives/week_2004_10_24.html

More about the NYC Streets Renaissance team, promoting sidewalks as public places

http://www.livablestreets.com/projects/nycsr/project-home

One of the most successful street closure/pedestrian events, Ciclovia

http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/lessons-from-bogota/

A great resource: daily news source, online community and political mobilizer for the Livable Streets movement.

http://www.streetsblog.org/

Failure of the street closure on Prince Street

http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/transportation/20080404/16/2481

How to Create a Pedestrian Mall

http://www.culturechange.org/issue14/pedestrianmall.html

Photo Gallery of Global Lessons fromt he NYC Streets Renaissance team

http://www2.nycstreets.org/lessons/photo.php

Livable Streets Block Party in Flatbush, Brooklyn

http://sustainableflatbush.org/tag/livable-streets/

The Real Deal webcast: tour of some Williamsburg new condos

http://ny.therealdeal.com/webcasts/146