Completing Our Streets The Transition to Safe and Inclusive Transportation Networks /

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Across the country, 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 prioritize cars. They have discovered that changing the design of a single street is not enough: they must upend the way trans...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McCann, Barbara (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Subjects:
Sustainability.
Sociology, Urban.
Human geography.
Urban Sociology.
Human Geography.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Why We Build Incomplete Streets
  • 2. How the Complete Streets Movement Succeeds
  • 3. Closing the Gap between Policy and Practice
  • 4. Process over Projects: Changing How Decisions Are Made
  • 5. Looking for Every Opportunity
  • 6. Practitioners as Champions
  • 7. Answering a Loaded Question: How Much Do Complete Streets Cost?
  • 8. The Balancing Act: Setting Priorities for Different Users
  • 9. Expanding Complete Streets
  • Appendix A. Case Study Finder
  • Appendix B. Complete Streets Resources
  • Endnotes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index.

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