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Narrow Streets Los Angeles

December 6, 2010

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.

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ACTUAL Sunset Blvd & Clark St, West Hollywood. © David Yoon.

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FICTIONAL Sunset Blvd & Clark St, West Hollywood. © David Yoon.

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ACTUAL Ocean Ave & Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica. © David Yoon.

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FICTIONAL Ocean Ave & Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica. © David Yoon.

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ACTUAL Sunset Blvd, Echo Park (II). © David Yoon.

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FICTIONAL Sunset Blvd, Echo Park (II). © David Yoon.

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ACTUAL 1st St, Little Tokyo. © David Yoon.

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FICTIONAL 1st St, Little Tokyo. © David Yoon.

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ACTUAL Burbank Blvd & Van Nuys Blvd. © David Yoon.

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FICTIONAL Burbank Blvd & Van Nuys Blvd. © David Yoon.

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ACTUAL Westwood Blvd & Pico Blvd, West Los Angeles. © David Yoon.

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FICTIONAL Westwood Blvd & Pico Blvd, West Los Angeles. © David Yoon.

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David Yoon

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.