Designing streets to be more people-friendly has positive impacts on physical activity, active transportation, safety, social interaction, and social capital. These benefits were identified through a literature review of 25 articles describing experiments using techniques like street re-marking, repurposing of car parking, and repurposing of partial or full streets.
Bertolini, Luca. “From ‘streets for traffic’ to ‘streets for people’: can street experiments transform urban mobility? Transport Reviews, 40.6 (2020): 734-753. https://doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2020.1761907
