AI for Rewilding Your Street

The “Dutch Cycling Lifestyle” app replaces cars with plants, bikes and pedestrians

5 min readNov 10, 2023

A photo of a street, as if we were standing in the middle of the street and seeing it recede in the distance. The photo is divided in half down the vertical center. On the left hand side is the regular street, showing vehicular traffic riding away us; a large white van is in front of us, and behind it are perhaps a dozen cars, all moving away from us. On the right hand side is the same street, except transformed to have no cars. The street is a walkway, filled with potted flowers — Fourth Ave in Brooklyn, rewilded by the app “Dutch Cycling Lifestyle”

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…

AI for Rewilding Your Street

The “Dutch Cycling Lifestyle” app replaces cars with plants, bikes and pedestrians

Written by Clive Thompson