Urban Street Design Guide | National Association of City …
A blueprint for designing 21st century streets, the Guide unveils the toolbox and the tactics cities use to make streets safer, more livable, and more economically vibrant. The Guide outlines both a clear vision for complete streets and a basic road map for how to bring them to fruition.
Activating the Edges: How to Create Lively, Active Streets
2022年10月21日 — Prioritize interactive uses—community spaces, courtyards, entries, or seating—in the prime space where the building meets the street edge, to ensure a lively interaction between the building ...
Global Street Design Guide - Global Designing Cities Initiative
In many cities, streets make up more than 80% of all public space, and collectively have the potential to foster business activity, serve as front yards for residents, and provide safe places for people to move and spend time.
Key Design Principles - Global Designing Cities Initiative
Design streets to enhance and support the current and planned contexts at multiple scales. A street can traverse diverse urban environments, from low-density neighborhoods to dense urban cores. As the context changes, land uses and densities place different pressures on the street, and inform the design priorities.
Key Design Principles – Global Designing Cities Initiative
Design streets to reflect a new set of priorities that ensures appropriate distribution of space among different users. Push boundaries, try new things, and think in creative ways. Implement projects quickly using low-cost materials to help inform public decision making, allowing people to experience and test the street in different ways.
Global Street Design Guide
Identify best-practice street design strategies and innovative examples that are most applicable to the local context. Use visual renderings, drawings, and metrics to show and explain what is possible, and test ideas with local stakeholders.
Urban Street Design Guide - Urbanism Next
A blueprint for designing 21st century streets, the Guide unveils the toolbox and the tactics cities use to make streets safer, more livable, and more economically vibrant.
Streets – Global Designing Cities Initiative
Above all else, streets are places for people, and a city cannot work without human-centered streets. This guide shifts from a system of functional classification of street types to a context-based approach to street designs. Adapted by Global Street Design Guide published by …
Commercial Shared Street | National Association of City …
A commercial shared street environment should be considered in places where pedestrian activity is high and vehicle volumes are either low or discouraged. Commercial shared streets can be designed for narrow or wide cross sections, but become increasingly complex and difficult to maintain as a shared space as width increases.
Streets - National Association of City Transportation Officials
Commercial alleys, though often thought of as dirty or unsafe, can be designed to play an integral role in a downtown street network and improve the pedestrian realm in and around commercial areas. The design of commercial alleys should strive Read More