Open Streets: How Often
A street handed to people, even for a few hours, can change how a city feels. This is a story about the frequency behind that, weekly, monthly, annual, seasonal, and about repetition that can outgrow itself.
By Yuval FogelsonEvery Sunday, Avenida Paulista in São Paulo fills completely with people. Then, as the day winds down, the street exhales. A van creeps along the avenue collecting the plastic cones. Behind it, a police motorcade rolls forward at walking pace. Behind that, the accumulated traffic, finally allowed to move, roars back to life, and within minutes eight lanes belong to cars again as if they always had. For seven hours that day, they hadn’t. The day calls itself Paulista Aberta, Open... Read more
