Pedestrian Ways: Pedestrian Streets

These are some examples of pedestrian streets around the world:

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Sparks Street Mall, Ottawa, Canada

Downtown Ottawa’s main thoroughfare is the Sparks Street Mall. Sparks Street became North America’s first outdoor pedestrian mall in 1966 when automobile traffic was permanently diverted to other streets. -- Ben Ross' Blog

The official web site of Spark Street Mall.

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Downtown Crossing, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

the city initiated plans in 1977 to redevelop Downtown Crossing as a car-free marketplace, coinciding with major transit extensions intended to increase ridership and, hence, Downtown Crossing patronage. In 1979, the new Downtown Crossing was unveiled. It boasted wide brick sidewalks, all sorts of pedestrian amenities, and no cars.  -- Project for Public Spaces

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Lincoln Road, Miami, Florida, USA

Lincoln Road is a pedestrian road running east-west between 16th Street and 17th Street in Miami Beach, Florida, United States. Once open to vehicular traffic, it now hosts a pedestrian row of shops, restaurants, galleries, and other businesses between Washington Avenue and Alton Road.

Around 1960, Miami Beach architect Morris Lapidus, whose credits include Miami Beach's Fountainebleau and Eden Roc hotels, was commissioned to redesign Lincoln Road. Lapidus's design for Lincoln Road, complete with gardens, fountains, shelters and an amphitheater, reflected the Miami Modern Architecture, or "MiMo", style that Lapidus pioneered in the 1950s. The Road was closed to traffic and became one of the nation's first pedestrian malls.  -- Wikipedia.

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1111 Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach, Florida, USA designed by Raymond Jungles

1111 Lincoln Road is structured by water gardens, planting areas and varying width stripes of Pedra Portuguesa pavement that act as an interface by extending and defining pedestrian movement and visibility for the existing retail businesses, restaurants and entertainment venues. The design cultivates an atmosphere of native Florida without losing a sense of distinction as a pedestrian mall.  -- ArchDaily

Another article from Architectural Record about new development in this area.

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Carnaby Street, London, UK

Carnaby Street is a pedestrianised shopping street in London, United Kingdom, located in the Soho district, near Oxford Street and Regent Street. It is home to numerous fashion and lifestyle retailers, including a large number of independent fashion boutiques. -- Wikipedia.

The official web site of Carnby Street.

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Grafton Street, Dublin, Ireland

Grafton Street is one of the two principal shopping streets in Dublin city centre, the other being Henry Street. It runs from St. Stephen's Green in the south (at the highest point of the street) to College Green in the north (to the lowest point). In 2008, Grafton Street was the fifth most expensive main shopping street in the world, at €5,621/m². -- Wikipedia.

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Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Buchanan Street has been Glasgow’s premier street for the past two centuries and is an integral part of the fabric of Glasgow’s historic city centre. With its richly ornamented Victorian and Edwardian commercial buildings as a backdrop, Buchanan Street is Glasgow’s grandest promenade.

The street is pedestrianized and attracts numerous visitors. There are several intersecting routes and public spaces, which offer a variety of activities.  -- Project for Public Spaces

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Rue Cler, Paris, France

It's a cobbled pedestrian street lined with shops run by people who've found their niche...boys who grew up on quiche. Aproned fruit stall attendants coax doll-like girls into trying their cherries. And ladies, after a lifetime of baguette munching, debate the merits of the street's rival boulangeries. -- Rick Steve's Europe

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Rua Augusta, Lisbon, Portagul

This is a lively pedestrian street with mosaic pavements, outdoor cafes, international shops, and the occasional street artist and peddler. Immigrants from Africa and South America offer items of wood, metal, or leather, while other vendors sell books, souvenirs, sunglasses, paintings, t-shirts, and anything else to attract the crowds passing by.  -- GoLisbon.com

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La Rambla, Barcelona, Spain

A 1.2 kilometer-long tree-lined pedestrian mall between Barri Gòtic and El Raval, it connects Plaça Catalunya in the centre with the Christopher Columbus monument at Port Vell.

La Rambla can be considered a series of shorter streets, each differently named, hence the plural form Les Rambles (Spanish: Las Ramblas).

The name rambla refers to an intermittent water flow in both Catalan and Spanish, and is derived from the Arabic 'ramla' which means 'sandy riverbed'. The name of the city of Ramla, now in Israel, shares the same origin.  -- Wikipedia