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    Walkable city rules : 101 steps to making better places / Jeff Speck.

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    • Title:Walkable city rules : 101 steps to making better places / Jeff Speck.
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    • Variant Title:101 steps to making better places
      One hundred one steps to making better places
    • Author/Creator:Speck, Jeff, author.
    • Published/Created:Washington, DC : Island Press, [2018]

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Central business districts--United States--Planning.
      Pedestrian areas--United States--Planning.
      Urban renewal--United States.
      City planning--United States.
    • Description:xvii, 291 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm
    • Summary:"Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable-for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment-yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is seldom easy. Jeff Speck's follow up to his bestselling Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. Walkable City Rules is a doer's guide to making change in cities, and making it now. The 101 rules are practical yet engaging-worded for arguments at the planning commission, illustrated for clarity, and packed with specifications as well as data. For ease of use, the rules are grouped into 19 chapters that cover everything from selling walkability, to getting the parking right, escaping automobilism, making comfortable spaces and interesting places, and doing it now! Walkable City was written to inspire; Walkable City Rules was written to enable. It is the most comprehensive tool available for bringing the latest and most effective city-planning practices to bear in your community. The content and presentation make it a force multiplier for place-makers and change-makers everywhere." --Publisher description.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781610918985 paperback
      1610918983 paperback
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I SELL WALKABILITY
      1. Sell Walkability on Wealth
      2. Sell Walkability on Health
      3. Sell Walkability on Climate Change
      4. Sell Walkability on Equity
      5. Sell Walkability on Community
      pt. II MIX THE USES
      6. Invest in Attainable Housing Downtown
      7. Push for Local Schools
      8. Push for Local Parks
      9. Fix Your Codes
      10. Do the Math
      pt. III MAKE HOUSING ATTAINABLE AND INTEGRATED
      11. Mandate Smart Inclusionary Zoning
      12. Encourage Granny Flats
      13. Leverage Housing with Parking Lots
      14. Fight Displacement
      15. Enact "Housing First"
      pt. IV GET THE PARKING RIGHT
      16. Eliminate On-Site Parking Requirements
      17. Make Downtown Parking a Public Utility
      18. Decouple and Share Parking
      19. Price Parking Based on Its Value
      pt. V LET TRANSIT WORK
      20. Coordinate Transit and Land Use
      21. Redesign Your Bus Network
      22. Build Streetcars, but as a Development Tool
      23. Consider the Transit Experience
      24. Create Bikeshare that Works
      25. Don't Mistake Uber for Transit
      26. Anticipate Autonomous Vehicles
      pt. VI ESCAPE AUTOMOBILISM
      27. Understand Induced Demand
      28. Tear Down a Highway
      29. Congestion-Price City Centers
      30. Close a Street to Cars
      Maybe
      pt. VII START WITH SAFETY
      31. Focus on Speeding
      32. Discuss the Time Cost of Safety
      33. Adopt Vision Zero
      34. Adopt a Downtown Speed Limit
      35. Install Red-Light Cameras and Speed Cameras
      pt. VIII OPTIMIZE YOUR DRIVING NETWORK
      36. Understand Network Function
      37. Keep Blocks Small
      38. Revert Multilane One-ways to Two-way for Business
      39. Revert Multilane One-ways to Two-way for Safety
      40. Revert Multilane One-ways to Two-way for Convenience
      41. Revert Multilane One-ways Properly
      pt. IX RIGHT-SIZE THE NUMBER OF LANES
      42. Challenge Traffic Studies
      43. Challenge Level of Service
      44. Challenge Functional Classification
      45. Cut the Extra Lanes
      46. Road-Diet Your Four-Laners
      47. Limit the Turn Lanes
      pt. X RIGHT-SIZE THE LANES
      48. Adopt a 10-Foot Standard for Free-Flow Lanes
      49. Restripe to a 10-Foot Standard
      50. Build Slow-Flow and Yield-Flow Streets
      51. Expand the Fire Chief's Mandate
      pt. XI SELL CYCLING
      52. Justify Biking Investment
      53. Understand that Cycling Follows Investment
      54. Avoid Common Cycling Pitfalls
      pt. XII BUILD YOUR BIKE NETWORK
      55. Understand Bike Network Function
      56. Turn Existing Corridors into Bike Paths
      57. Build Bicycle Boulevards
      58. Build Cycle Tracks
      59. Build Cycle Tracks Properly
      60. Use Conventional Bike Lanes Where They Belong
      61. Build Conventional Bike Lanes Properly
      62. Do Not Use Sharrows as Cycling Facilities
      pt. XIII PARK ON STREET
      63. Put Curb Parking Almost Everywhere
      64. Design Parallel Parking Properly
      65. Provide Angle Parking Where Warranted
      pt. XIV FOCUS ON GEOMETRY
      66. Avoid Swoops, Slip Lanes, and Sight Triangles
      67. Design Left-Turn Lanes Properly
      68. Provide Neckdowns at Wide Crossings
      69. Use Roundabouts with Discretion
      70. Do Not "Fix" Complexity
      71. Remove Centerlines on Neighborhood Streets
      72. Create Pedestrian Zones Properly
      pt. XV FOCUS ON INTERSECTIONS
      73. Make Great Crosswalks
      74. Keep Signals Simple
      75. Bag the Beg Buttons and Countdown Clocks
      76. Replace Signals with All-Way Stops
      77. Build Naked Streets and Shared Spaces
      pt. XVI MAKE SIDEWALKS RIGHT
      78. Put Trees Almost Everywhere
      79. Select and Locate Street Trees Properly
      80. Design Sidewalks Properly
      81. Disallow Curb Cuts
      82. Introduce Parklets
      pt. XVII MAKE COMFORTABLE SPACES
      83. Make Firm Edges
      84. Never Allow Front Parking
      85. Build Vancouver Urbanism
      86. Use Lighting to Support Urbanism
      87. Don't Let Terrorists Design Your City
      pt. XVIII MAKE INTERESTING PLACES
      88. Make Sticky Edges
      89. Limit Repetition
      90. Break Up Big Buildings
      91. Save Those Buildings
      92. Hide the Parking Structures
      93. Direct Your Public Art Budget to Blank Walls
      pt. XIX DO IT NOW
      94. Do a Walkability Study
      95. Do a Frontage Quality Assessment and Locate Anchors
      96. Identify the Network of Walkability
      97. Rebuild. or Restripe?
      98. Do Some Tactical Urbanism
      99. Start Code Reform Now
      100. Don't Give Up on Sprawl
      101. Dream Big.
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