I truly love the pictures accompanying this article. Sunny, blue skies, lots of people enjoying themselves - what's not to love.
Not to be a downer, but where is anyone working, producing, making anything other than a video. I'm getting a bit into random association here, but this is looking to me rather like the shadow of Zoning that seems to have been a huge damper on the development of street life in Can/America. I want to have shopping and office and factory and workshops and housing all on the same streets, with commerce and production and daily life and living all interacting on the same streets - not car-free, but not car-infested and auto-intimidated. Someone has to deliver the beer.

The closest approaches to this little utopia of mine were towns in old Europe and Mexico, and usually because they were not rich enough to try and segregate and zone each little activity like some autistic kid playing with toy soldiers (yes, I remember). They could have been cleaner and they could have been quieter, but things were lively and jolly, and it was real life, not a disneyfied version.

One-way streets have always seemed like a direct concession to car culture - less interference, go faster. But narrow is definitely good, and maybe the double parking helps by narrowing the street. And if it works there, let there be no complaints.

Remember, for authentic urban experience: Congestion is a Town's Best Friend.