To make Staten Island’s streets safe, we all need to see more clearly. There is nowhere in our borough – or anywhere across the city – where drivers or pedestrians are safer when their vision is ...

“Daylighting is not a window thing,” says Steve Fronek, PE. “It’s an integrated design concept that involves the whole building and factors in climate, the building’s orientation, how the floor plan ...

For much of the 20th century, transportation engineers believed that wider streets were safer streets. The conventional wisdom was that larger roadways provided greater visibility and more space for ...

I see the good sense of “daylighting” on the oncoming-traffic side of midblock crosswalks and other crossings where there is no traffic control (“New parking law benefits pedestrians” Nov. 30-Dec.1 ...

Quite a few modern and progressive cities have once buried their first axes - the rivers that witnessed their birth. Ambitious cities today are exhuming the soil-covered or culverted waterways, ...