The Musician Using AI To Redesign Every Street in the World
A 2023 Lyft Rev interview with Zach Katz about Better Streets AI, which used DALL-E 2 to redesign photographs of streets.
Interview · 2023Sources & confidence: Qualified confidence
Checked 8 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
What the interview says about Katz's method and its limits.
- Lyft: The Musician Using AI To Redesign Every Street in the World
Launched Better Streets AI in summer 2022; used DALL-E 2 to redesign photos of roadways, starting with his own photos of his street; renderings mostly car-free and following Dutch CROW guidelines; renderings used to start conversations with officials.
What this check doesn’t establish
- The URL now redirects to lyft.com/blog/posts/ and remains live.
- The interview does not mention Street View, and contains no admission that the results were no substitute for design. Katz presents the renderings as a campaigning tool and promotes a subscription service for planners.
Confidence applies to the scope above, not every claim made by the underlying source. How confidence works
Cited in the essay's opening as an earlier use of image models to reimagine streets. The interview supports that much; the essay's details about Street View and Katz's admission are not in it.
In the essays
- Somewhere Worth Living
Read the essay
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Record history
Catalogue source: knowledge/works/franzen-better-streets-ai.md
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