Completing Our Streets The Transition to Safe and Inclusive Transportation Networks /
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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Washington, DC :
Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-432-1 |
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.