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  • DESIGNING STREETS FOR KIDS
    Making a city that works for children creates a city that better serves all of its residents, across ages and abilities. Yet we have created unsafe street conditions for children in cities around the world. Every day more than 500 children die in road crashes globally. The physical and mental health benefits of walking and biking are challenged by speeding traffic and unsafe pe...

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  • BLUE URBANISM. EXPLORING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN CITIES AND OCEANS
    BEATLEY, TIMOTHY
    What would it mean to live in cities designed to foster feelings of connectedness to the ocean? As coastal cities begin planning for climate change and rising sea levels, author Timothy Beatley sees opportunities for rethinking the relationship between urban development and the ocean. Modern society is more dependent upon ocean resources than people are commonly aware of—from o...

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  • SITE DESIGN FOR MULTIFAMILY HOUSING
    LARCO, NICO / KELSEY, KRISTIN / STOCKER WEST, AMANDA
    The United States is over eighty percent urbanized, yet over half of the population still lives in suburban settings, characterized by low-density, automobile-dependent development with separated land uses. These disconnected and isolated models of development have been linked to increased greenhouse-gas emissions and reduced quality of life, health, and social connections. In ...

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  • COMPLETING OUR STREETS
    MCCANN, BARBARA
    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 transportation agencies operate. Completing Our Streets begins with the story of how ...

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  • MEASURING URBAN DESIGN: METRICS FOR LIVABLE PLACES
    EWING, REID / CLEMENTE, OTTO
    What makes strolling down a particular street enjoyable? The authors of Measuring Urban Design argue it's not an idle question. Inviting streets are the centerpiece of thriving, sustainable communities, but it can be difficult to pinpoint the precise design elements that make an area appealing. This accessible guide removes the mystery, providing clear methods to measure urban ...

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  • TRANSIT STREET DESIGN GUIDE
    Aa. VV.
    Transit and cities grow together. As cities work to become more compact, sustainable, and healthy, their work is paying dividends: in 2014, Americans took 10.8 billion trips on public transit, the highest since the dawn of the highway era. But most of these trips are on streets that were designed to move private cars, with transit as an afterthought. The NACTO Transit Street De...

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  • PEOPLE CITIES
    MATAN, ANNIE / NEWMAN, PETER
    'A good city is like a good-party, you stay for longer than you plan', says Danish architect Jan Gehl. He believes that good architecture is not about form, but about the interaction between-form and life. Over-the last 50 years, Gehl has changed the way that we think about architecture and city planning, moving from the Modernist separation of uses to a human-scale approach in...

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  • SOFT CITY
    DAVID SIM
    u003ciu003eImagine waking up to the gentle noises of the city, and moving through your day with complete confidence that you will get where you need to go quickly and efficiently.u003c/iu003e u003ciu003eSoft Cityu003c/iu003e is about ease and comfort, where density has a human dimension, adapting to our ever-changing needs, nurturing relationships, and accommodating the pleasur...

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  • URBAN STREET STORMWATER GUIDE
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    The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) and the Global Designing Cities Initiative recently announced the launch of the Global Street Design Guide as a globally accessible document that can be downloaded at no cost, allowing urban planners, designers and transportation practitioners in cities around the world to immediately implemen...

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  • START-UP CITY
    GABE KLEIN, DAVID VEGA-BARACHOWITZ
    There has been a revolution in urban transportation over the past five years, set off by start-ups across the US and internationally. Sleek, legible mobility platforms are connecting people to cars, trains, buses, and bikes as never before, opening up a range of new transport options while improving existing ones. While many large city governments, such as Chicago, New York, an...

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  • URBAN BIKEWAY DESIGN GUIDE
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITY TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS
    The Urban Bikeway Design Guide, is based on the experience of the best cycling cities in the world. Completely re-designed with an accessible, four-color layout, this second edition continues to build upon the fast-changing state of the practice at the local level. The designs in this book were developed by cities for cities, since unique urban streets require innovative soluti...

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  • URBAN ACUPUNCTURE
    LERNER, JAIME
    In Urban Acupuncture, Lerner celebrates these "pinpricks" of action - projects, people, and initiatives that ripple outward to upliff city life. With meditative and descriptive prose, Lerner brings readers to streets and neighborhoods where urban acupuncture has been practiced well, from the bustling La Boqueria market in Barcelona to the revitalized Cheonggyecheon River in Seo...

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  • HOW TO STUDY PUBLIC LIFE
    JAN GEHL, BIRGITTE SVARRE
    How do we accommodate a growing urban population in a way that is sustainable, equitable, and inviting? This question is becoming increasingly urgent to answer as we face diminishing fossil-fuel resources and the effects of a changing climate while global cities continue to compete to be the most vibrant centers of culture, knowledge, and finance.Jan Gehl has been examining thi...

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  • THE NATURE OF URBAN DESIGN
    WASHBURN, ALEXANDROS
    The best cities become an ingrained part of their residents’ identities. Urban design is the key to this process, but all too often, citizens abandon it to professionals, unable to see a way to express what they love and value in their own neighborhoods. In this visually rich book, Alexandros Washburn, Chief Urban Designer of the New York Department of City Planning, redefines...

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  • URBAN STREET DESIGN GUIDE
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITY TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS
    The NACTO Urban Street Design Guide shows how streets of every size can be reimagined and reoriented to prioritize safe driving and transit, biking, walking, and public activity. Unlike older, more conservative engineering manuals, this design guide emphasizes the core principle that urban streets are public places and have a larger role to play in communities than solely bein...

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  • CITIES FOR PEOPLE
    GEHL, JAN
    For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use—or could use—the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure un...

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  • GLOBAL STREET DESIGN GUIDE
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    The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) and the Global Designing Cities Initiative recently announced the launch of the Global Street Design Guide as a globally accessible document that can be downloaded at no cost, allowing urban planners, designers and transportation practitioners in cities around the world to immediately implemen...

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