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Complete Street Diagram

Five image pairs — and simple rules — courtesy of New York City.

We’ve all heard about complete streets — streets that provide access to everyone, with ample space for pedestrians, bicyclists, cars, and buses. But, at GreenBuild in Los Angeles, a gro…

Delivering safe, bikeable streets in every city

This week, complete streets advocates came together in Washington, DC, to celebrate the passage of the 500th complete streets policy. That happened in Memphis more than seven months ago, but perhaps the delay in marking the occasion was fortuitous: There are now at least 25 more policies to celebrate. Each of these policies is really just […]

w12: walkable city The complete street is not only a way to make pedestrian transportation more amenable but it can also facilitate the development of local economic growth and foster social/community interaction.

George Hislop Park and Norman Jewison Park are now open! The Yonge Street Linear Park network provides vital green space and a popular pedestrian route parallel to Yonge Street in the Church-Wellesley neighbourhood. The revitalization project includes George Hislop Park, Norman Jewison Park and Alexander Street Parkette. The park improvements will be guided by the […]

Indian streets are vibrant public spaces, yet over 70% lack pedestrian footpaths, resulting in unsafe conditions for the city's growing population.

We consulted architects and planners to create an achievable, replicable plan — one suited to a city embracing its public spaces as never before.

This is part of an ongoing series on ideas from Next New York, a project by the Forum for Urban Design. Serial entrepreneur Elon Musk isn’t the only one dreaming up outlandish new transportation modes with the Hyperloop. Over the past four months, the Forum for Urban Design invited architects, planners, developers, engineers and academics to brainstorm […]

On Tuesday, we wrote about the Defense Department’s new rules for the design of their bases and installations. These rules make smart growth the law of the land on hundreds of vast military installations in the U.S. and abroad. There’s more to the story: In this post we examine how a smart growth development model […]

National Planning Excellence Award for Boston Complete Streets Design Guidelines | Toole Design Group

Interim public plazas transform underutilized areas of roadway into public spaces for surrounding residents and businesses. Using low-cost materials, such as epoxied gravel, movable planters, and flexible seating, interim public plazas reconfigure and revitalize intersections that might otherwise be unsafe or underutilized. Like parklets, interim public plazas are the result of a successful partnership between…

Over the last two decades, Vancouver has put a complete streets design principles into action and the city is already seeing the benefits.