Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution

Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution

Like a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City's streets to make room for pedestrians, bikers, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change, Streetfight imparts wisdom and practical advice that other cities can follow to make their own streets safer and more vibrant.Â

As New York Cityâ€™s transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan managed the seemingly impossible and transformed the streets of one of the worldâ€™s greatest, toughest cities into dynamic spaces safe for pedestrians and bikers. Her approach was dramatic and effective: Simply painting a part of the street to make it into a plaza or bus lane not only made the street safer, but it also lessened congestion and increased foot traffic, which improved the bottom line of businesses. Real-life experience confirmed that if you know how to read the street, you can make it function better by not totally reconstructing it but by reallocating the space thatâ€™s already there.
Â Â Â Breaking the street into its component parts, Streetfight demonstrates, with step-by-step visuals, how to rewrite the underlying â€œsource codeâ€ of a street, with pointers on how to add protected bike paths, improve crosswalk space, and provide visual cues to reduce speeding. Achieving such a radical overhaul wasnâ€™t easy, and Streetfight pulls back the curtain on the battles Sadik-Khan won to make her approach work. She includes examples of how this new way to read the streets has already made its way around the world, from pocket parks in Mexico City and Los Angeles to more pedestrian-friendly streets in Auckland and Buenos Aires, and innovative bike-lane designs and plazas in Austin, Indianapolis, and San Francisco. Many are inspired by the changes taking place in New York City and are based on the same techniques.Â Streetfight deconstructs, reassembles, and reinvents the street, inviting readers to see it in ways they never imagined.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-03-08
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-03-08
Format	Kindle eBook

Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution

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