#civic engineering

"The snow is almost like nature's tracing paper," says Clarence Eckerson Jr, the director of StreetFilms, which documents pedestrian- and cycle-friendly streets across the globe. He says that snow can be helpful in pointing out traffic patterns and changing street composition for the better. "When you dump some snow on this giant grid of streets, now you can see, visually, how people can better use the streets," he says.