As we progress towards urbanization the streets are becoming more complex and significant system in Urban area. The concept of sustainable streets plays a vital role in creating vital urban spaces. Urban streets are places in a city where people come together to interact and spend some leisure time in the given urban lifestyle, apart from commuting. Automobiles dominate the urban streets and people’s life, hence makes walking less attractive and necessary. The city hence is losing its energy consequently and leading to an automobile driven society. The paper outlines a global perspective of creating people centric streets for the sprawling metropolitan cities where urbanization is rampant and rapid. The first part of the paper discusses how a place can be defined and how the current technology has changed our lives and lifestyles. The latter part of the paper throws light on, how to create sustainable streets as thriving components of a city, with the case study of urban morphology of a neighborhood “Basavanagudi” in Bengaluru. Basavanagudi, a commercial and residential locality houses numerous old and beautiful temples, elite institutions, busy marketplaces, parks, and lakes. This residential neighborhood has become a hectic hub for business communities today