There’s still time to sign up for tomorrow’s “Streetfilms in Baltimore” event, sponsored by EnvisionBaltimore and Friends of the Charles Street Trolley. If you’ve ever wondered why Baltimore’s streets can’t be as livable, cyclable and walkable as parts of Berkeley or New York or Copenhagen, then head over to the Metro Gallery tomorrow, from 5:30 to 8:30, to find others who dare to dream of such things.

EnvisionBaltimore, an online gathering place for those interested in a city better planned for transit, biking and walking, teamed up with the advocates of a trolley on Charles Street to organize tomorrow’s event, which features Clarence Eckerson, Jr., the founder and main force behind NYC-based Streetfilms.org. Eckerson will show a couple of films tomorrow and talk about his work and how it relates to Baltimore.

Streetfilms produces entertaining and informative short videos about making city streets more pedestrian and cycle-friendly. “The group has been an inspiration to EnvisionBaltimore in its mission to bring these issues to the forefront in Baltimore,” according to the event press release.

The video above, for example, shows how New Yorkers made a pedestrian plaza with chairs and tables and planters and giant chess pieces — out of what had been a patch of traffic-clogged asphalt in the middle of Herald Square.

Here are some more videos from their site, including the one where they got a bicycle mechanic to walk around the streets of Manhattan and grade people on how well they locked their bikes. (A moderately-talented crook could have made off with many of them in minutes and, in some cases, seconds.)

This video has some very convincing footage of the gauntlet urban bikers run that makes the case for why separate bike lanes are a good idea…..