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AI for Rewilding Your Street
The “Dutch Cycling Lifestyle” app replaces cars with plants, bikes and pedestrians
That picture above? It’s a before-and-after image of a road near where I live. The picture was modified by “Dutch Cycling Lifestyle”, a fun new web app where you upload a picture of a street filled with cars, and it uses an AI filter to remove the vehicles — replacing them with plants, walkable pathways, and bicycles.
It’s a clever little idea for helping us reimagine our cities. What would it look like if your neighborhood suddenly changed the avenues so they were focused heavily on serving pedestrians and people, instead of mostly just 2-ton vehicles?
You can give it a try yourself. Pump in any street address and it’ll grab a picture from Google maps, then run its filtering magic.
Here’s another example, done by the Romford Recorder in the UK …
For a while now, I’ve been blogging about the art of “rewilding” our environments — from our mental ones to the towns we live in.
When it comes to cities, rewilding requires an imaginative leap. We have to look at the world…
