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Global Street Design Guide: Global Designing Cities Initiative

National Association Of City Transportation Officials

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Description for Global Street Design Guide: Global Designing Cities Initiative Hardback. The Global Street Design Guide is a timely resource that sets a global baseline for designing streets and public spaces and redefines the role of streets in a rapidly urbanizing world. The guide will broaden how to measure the success of urban streets. Num Pages: 460 pages, full clour illustrations. BIC Classification: RPC; RPT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 281 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1352.
Each year, 1.2 million people die from traffic fatalities, highlighting the need to design streets that offer safe and enticing travel choices for all people. Cities around the world are facing the same challenges as cities in the US, and many of these problems are rooted in outdated codes and standards. The Global Street Design Guide is a timely resource that sets a global baseline for designing streets and public spaces and redefines the role of streets in a rapidly urbanizing world. The guide will broaden how to measure the success of urban streets to include: access, safety, mobility for ... Read more

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Publisher

Island Press

Format

Hardback

Publication date

2016

Condition

New

Number of Pages

432

Place of Publication

Washington, United States

ISBN

9781610917018

SKU

V9781610917018

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About National Association Of City Transportation Officials

Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies and launched in 2014, the Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI) focuses on the critical role of streets around the world. GDCI, working in partnership with the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), is committed to raising the state of the practice for street design and transportation by building a common vision, sharing data, peer-to-peer exchanges ... Read more

Reviews for Global Street Design Guide: Global Designing Cities Initiative

Streets are the foundation of a city's entire social structure
getting around, working, living, shopping, and playing. With this guide, cities have, for the first time, a universal resource for creating cities that operate for everyone who uses them.
Enrique Penalosa, Mayor of Bogota This invaluable guide brings together extremely useful information and metrics that can assist city administrations, urban ... Read moredesigners, planners, landscape architects, and the public in forging new directions in street design...the Global Street Design Guide should find its way onto the shelves of all design and planning firms responsible for improving urban streets, regardless of where they practice.
ASLA's The Dirt By recognizing the joyful complexity of urban life, as well as the reality that different nations and cultures have different resources and needs, the [Global Street Design Guide] inevitably debunks the one-size-fits-all street design manuals that originated in the mid-20th century and should now be put in the dustbin of history...The Global Street Design Guide, if adopted and applied, will dramatically improve...standards and practices in cities around the world.
Nature of Cities Cities are undergoing a street design revolution, and the Global Street Design Guide is the first document to capture the brave new world of strategies that are transforming cities on every continent. Drawn from life and sourced with real-world examples, this guide establishes a new categorical imperative for safer streets that level the playing field for transit, bike riders, and pedestrians. It creates a new international language for urban livability, mobility, and economy.
Janette Sadik-Khan, Bloomberg Associates, former Transportation Commissioner for New York City For more than a century, street life was what grew through the cracks in pavement
a liveliness that thrived despite the asphalt and traffic. The Global Street Design Guide starts from an opposite principle, that we can't wait for streets to produce human outliers that survive against the odds, but that we must instead design them to make active, engaging street life inevitable.
Jan Gehl, Urbanist, Architect, and author of Cities for People Smart street design improves lives in so many ways, from reducing emissions that cause harmful air pollution and drive climate change, to making streets safer and helping local businesses. The Global Street Design Guide is a powerful resource that can help cities around the world become safer and stronger.
Michael R. Bloomberg, former Mayor of New York City Show Less

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