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An empowering road map for rethinking, reinvigorating, and redesigning our cities, from a pioneer in the movement for safer, livable streets As New York City s transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik Khan managed the seemingly impossible and transformed the streets of one of the world s greatest, toughest cities into dynamic spaces safe for pedestrians and bikers Her approach was dramatic and effective Simply painting a part of the street to make it into a plaza or bus lane not only made the street safer, but it also lessened congestion and increased foot traffic, which improved the bottom line of businesses Real life experience confirmed that if you know how to read the street, you can make it function better by not totally reconstructing it but by reallocating the space that s already there Breaking the street into its component parts, Streetfight demonstrates, with step by step visuals, how to rewrite the underlying source code of a street, with pointers on how to add protected bike paths, improve crosswalk space, and provide visual cues to reduce speeding Achieving such a radical overhaul wasn t easy, and Streetfight pulls back the curtain on the battles Sadik Khan won to make her approach work She includes examples of how this new way to read the streets has already made its way around the world, from pocket parks in Mexico City and Los Angeles to pedestrian friendly streets in Auckland and Buenos Aires, and innovative bike lane designs and plazas in Austin, Indianapolis, and San Francisco Many are inspired by the changes taking place in New York City and are based on the same techniques Streetfight deconstructs, reassembles, and reinvents the street, inviting readers to see it in ways they never imagined. Best Read [ Streetfight ] author [ Janette Sadik-Khan ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Spending most of my adult life working on the cultural and infrastructure change of our transportation system in Pittsburgh, this book was validating to say the least.NYC streets, under her reign, changed so dramatically and gave advocates across the country a new way to think and talk about what our cities can be, almost creating a new language Needless to say her work made everyone else s job much easier by mainstreaming the idea that built environments are meant to be altered and change with Spending most of my adult life working on the cultural and infrastructure change of our transportation system in Pittsburgh, this book was validating to say the least.NYC streets, under her reign, changed ...I read this book in advance of an Urban Milwaukee book club discussion taking place this month It s a feisty memoir by a NYC transportation commissioner 2007 2013 who led a resurgence of urban street life in NYC by taking anachronistic traffic areas and creating urban plazas and protected bike lanes and by rethinking traffic patterns She has a lot of interesting things to say about transit and infrastructure too I am going to be looking at Milwaukee with new eyes after reading this book, tr I read this book in advance of an Urban Milwaukee book club discussion taking place this month It s a feisty memoir by a NYC transportation commissioner 2007 2013 who led a resurgence of urban street life in NYC by taking anachronistic traffic areas and creating urban plazas and pro...Someday, someone will write a book about Sadik Khan s innovative approach to urban planning that provides a detailed and balanced assessment of both her process and policies Unfortunately, Sadik Khan herself isn t interested in writing that book I fundamentally agree with her philosophy and still found the self congratulatory tone of this extended hire me as a consultant advertisement grating and the cherry picked scraps of data this book provides unconvincing I can t imagine it changing t Someday, someone will write a book about Sadik Khan s innovative approach t...While his mayoral reign was by no means perfect, Michael Bloomberg did some cool things over his three terms as Mayor of New York City Many of these aforementioned low temperature initiatives made lives easier for pedestrians car free plazas and curb islands in busy intersections , bikers tons of designated bike lanes and a huge bike sharing program and even bus riders select bus service Janette Sadik Khan, commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation from 2007 to 2013, While his mayoral reign was by no means perfect, Michael Bloomberg did some cool things over his three terms as Mayor of New York City Many of these aforementioned low temperature initiatives made lives easier for pedestrians car free plazas and curb islands in busy intersections , bikers tons of designated bike lanes and a huge bike sharing program and even bus riders select bus service J...Somehow, Janette Sadik Khan got me very excited about optimizing urban traffic patterns I ll never look at an eight lane intersection the same way again.There are new expectations for streets, writes Janette Sadik Khan Changing the streets is a blood sport Projects that alter streetscapes upset the people who cling to stability, even if it is unsafe or inefficient Change becomes the new norm And that s how the author concludes her exciting book Ostensibly, this is a book describing how New York City revitalized its streets Sadik Khan, however, applies the lessons learned to other cities After all, many of the ideas used in New York dr There are new expectations for streets, writes Janette Sadik Khan Changing the streets is a blood sport Projects that alter streetscapes upset the people who cling to stability, even if it is unsafe or inefficient Change becomes the new norm And that s how the author concludes her exciting book Ostensibly, this is a book describing how New York City revitalized its streets Sadik Khan, however,...This is a relatively digestible retelling of Janette Sadik Khan s tenure as commissioner of NYC s transportation department At its best, it offers concrete examples of pushing change through amidst pushback from a vocal minority, as well as some inspiring infrastructure changes committed in NYC But a lot of the book also doesn t actually offer insight into how, as an advocate, you can cause change in your city.So if you ve been keeping up with transportation for a few years, you might gain a c This is a relatively digestible retelling of Janette Sadik Khan s tenure as commissioner of NYC s transportation department At its best, it offers concrete examples of pushing change through amidst pushback from a vocal minority, as well as some inspiring infrastructure changes committed in NYC But a lot of the book also doesn t actually offer insight into how, as an advocate, you can cause change in your city.So if you ve been keeping up with transportation for a few years, you might gain a couple neat insights, but by and large this is probably a better fit as a read for people who want to get into urbanism and specifically transportation and haven t had the opportunity yet.But I mean hey, I enjoyed read...Easy to read memoir urban planing for dummies hybrid, butIt s hardly an urban revolution handbook Not enough details and ideas how to implement changes It focuses mostly on what was done in NY.It probably won t convince anyone who isn t already re...This book was a fun, informative read on NYC s politics but I wish there wasof a counterpoint to many of JSK s policies.A light history of the author s tenure as NYC s traffic commissioner, plus a little bit of getting the last word in Considering the fallacious outcry she received as thanks for making New York s streetsfunctional and humane, I can t fault Sadik Khan for wanting to set the record straight Ho...

Streetfight
  • 13 August 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 368 pages
  • 0525429840
  • Janette Sadik-Khan
  • Streetfight