Photographer David Yoon narrows existing streets of Los Angeles to see the effects on the city

Could the entire mood of a neighborhood depend on something as simple as street width? That was the question David Yoon, a writer, designer, photographer, and self-confessed urban planning geek living in Los Angeles, asked himself after returning from a trip to Paris. He started documenting existing streets of Los Angeles and narrowing them to see the effects that his manipulations had on the city. His fictional depictions of the streets, while they are not literal proposals, provide the perfect platform to discuss if another city is possible, one that puts human scale in the foreground.

David Yoon is a writer, designer, photographer, and self-confessed urban planning geek living in Los Angeles, where he work as an art director at an ad agency by day and otherwise spend my time writing fiction and screenplays. He grew up in Orange County and has lived in Berkeley, Yokohama, and Boston before winding up back here in Southern California.

www.davidyoon.com | narrowstreetsla.blogspot.com | @narrowstreetsLA

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Tags: 2010, DAVID YOON, ISSUE 8, LOS ANGELES, PHOTOGRAPHY, PUBLIC, WINTER 10