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Creating the Streets We Want


Creating the Streets We Want - Social Life Project

This photo gallery presents some of the finest streets in the world, focusing on Gdansk, Buenos Aires, Paris, Istanbul and The Prado in Balboa park, San Diego.

Create Streets America: what we want to do and why

We exist because we think there is a gap in urbanist advocacy in the US that needs to be filled. There are many fantastic groups already ...

Creating the Streets and Sidewalks We Love - Social Life Project

If we want people to spend time on sidewalks, they need to feel safe. Ample distance between pedestrians and cars is important, and/or barriers ...

Building Better Streets - America Walks

We have the opportunity to build the critical infrastructure our streets need to make walking safe, routine, and enjoyable. America Walks is supporting ...

Making Streets that Work, 1995 - YouTube

Color with sound. Summary of concepts making streets work better for communities, spotlighting several Seattle neighborhoods.

Complete Streets - Smart Growth America

Complete Streets is an approach to planning, designing and building streets ... Why do we need Complete Streets? For one, we are in the midst of a historic ...

Reconstructing the Street? Move the Curb! - Strong Towns

... we can do to continually make things better. One such ... If we want safe streets, we have to design them to be safe, and that ...

- Create Streets

Create Streets is a design practice, town-builder and think tank. We lead research, master-planning, design coding and community co-design.

How to Make Streets into Great Public Spaces - Mobycon

... make a street into destinations. In this article, the Project for Public Spaces team wanted to give you a glimpse of some of the key placemaking insights ...

How to Create Complete Streets, From Policy to Practice - YouTube

Download the slides: https://bikeleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Complete-Streets-Webinar-Slides-Combined_9.17.24.pdf The U.S. ...

The Secret to Vibrant Streets? Focus on What People Can See

We can draw three practical lessons from these studies. First, if you want to create a vibrant, transit-oriented development, you need to ask ...

Creating Streets and Making Places: With Nicholas Boys Smith ...

... want, and advocate for design solutions that will lead to better ... It matters what people like when it comes to the places that we create ...

To build safe streets, we need to address racism in urban design

Advancing street safety is about improving roads, but it is also about investing in communities. Only after we broaden our understanding of safety to encompass ...

How to redesign your city's most dangerous streets to save the most ...

... we design our streets is part of the problem. More than 6,500 people ... make streets safer. These include: narrowing traffic lanes and ...

Featuring Create Streets - YouTube

Future of Planning: PlanTech Week – Can we Measure the Quality of Place? ... Creating Streets where Londoners want to live. Syed Kamall · 5:25 ...

Let's Make Sticky Streets for People! | Planetizen Blogs

The latter is easier (or at least it should be, if place-making was understood better) – you simply have to make a place that people want to ...

If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity

Dignity is a really important concept in active transportation, but one that we often miss in the conversation about making streets better for ...

Sustainable Urban Streets: 7 Tips for Successful Green Design

... we take from my experience with Grand Rapid's Vital Streets program? ... Finally, besides making sure the plants are salt tolerant, you will want to ...

Complete Streets | US Department of Transportation

... make the transportation network safer and more efficient. ... Want to know more? Receive email updates about the latest in Safety ...

New streets, new world - One Works

Streets can be rebalanced to accommodate people on buses, bikes, e-bikes and scooters. We need to start making these investments today so that in 10, 20 and ...