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Completing Our Streets
Barbara McCann
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Description for Completing Our Streets
Paperback. The complete streets movement is based around a simple idea: streets should be safe for people of all ages and abilities, whether they are walking, driving, bicycling, or taking the bus. This book offers practitioners the strategies, tools, and inspiration needed to translate this idea into real and lasting change in their communities. Num Pages: 224 pages, 36 photos, 2 figures. BIC Classification: RPT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 340.
Communities are embracing a new and safer way to build streets for everyone - even as they struggle to change decades of rules, practice, and politics that prioritise cars. They have discovered that changing the design of a single street is not enough: they must upend the way transportation agencies operate. Completing Our Streets begins with the story of how the complete streets movement united bicycle riders, transportation practitioners and agencies, public health leaders, older people, and smart growth advocates to dramatically re-frame the discussion of transportation safety. Next, it explores why the transportation field has been so resistant to ... Read more
Communities are embracing a new and safer way to build streets for everyone - even as they struggle to change decades of rules, practice, and politics that prioritise cars. They have discovered that changing the design of a single street is not enough: they must upend the way transportation agencies operate. Completing Our Streets begins with the story of how the complete streets movement united bicycle riders, transportation practitioners and agencies, public health leaders, older people, and smart growth advocates to dramatically re-frame the discussion of transportation safety. Next, it explores why the transportation field has been so resistant to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Island Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9781610914314
SKU
V9781610914314
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Barbara McCann
Barbara McCann served as the founding Executive Director of the National Complete Streets Coalition and Director of Information and Research at Smart Growth America (SGA), where she authored the report Measuring the Health Effects of Sprawl. McCann is also a co-author of Sprawl Costs and editor of The Option of Urbanism by Chris Leinberger.
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