Streets
Walkable Streets
News and resources on human-scale street design and construction
Giving Smart Growth A Leg Up
Recognition programs help good projects gain approval, but occasionally some extra tweaking is in order. In January, the Delaware Valley ...
Narrow Streets Are The Safest
Twenty-four foot wide streets are the safest, according to a study by SwiTwenty-four-foots and the City of Longmont, Colorado. The ...
Progress On Emergency Response And Street Design
CNU, New Urban Network Modestly sized, well-connected streets can decrease pedestrian injuries and deaths and foster more efficient access by ...
Pedestrian And Bike Projects Are Top Job Generators
Researcher Heidi Garrett-Peltier wanted to know how much employment is produced by bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure projects compared to projects ...
HUD Will Help Five Cities Redo Troubled Neighborhoods
Author: Philip Langdon New Urban Network An unusually comprehensive federal initiative will try to make drastic improvements in poor, violence-prone ...
Cities Redo Streets For Pedestrians, Cyclists, Transit
Author: New Urban News Issue Date: Sat, 2007-12-01 Page Number:1 The "Complete Streets" movement presses many cities to plan for multimodal transportation ...
