What would the busiest street in your hometown look like with fewer cars and more people, and bike lanes, and light rail? Urban planning advocate Zach Katz cannot only tell you, he can show you — using the AI image-generation platform DALL-E.
on urbanist Twitter, thanks to his AI-generated images that show real-world, car-dense streets in cities like New York and Boston as pedestrian and public transit utopias.Images are powerful tools for imagining what's possible in urban design — and Katz's work is already being used by advocates across the country to push for the changes they want.
"So, then I was like, well, this could have serious transformative potential for safe streets advocacy, livable streets advocacy worldwide.""It would be horribly embarrassing if I were to put a bus lane where there's no bus currently, or pedestrianized a street where there needs to be a bus lane or a light rail or a streetcar.
"It's really cool how easy it is now to get the conversation started, whereas before it would have taken weeks and months of planning and on the ground advocacy, talking to people — just theoretical words flying back and forth," he says. "Now it's just one or two pictures, and all of a sudden people are talking about it and are excited about it."
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