Presents the first-ever worldwide standard for designing city streets and prioritizing safety, pedestrians, transit, and sustainable mobility; Builds off the successful tools and tactics defined in NACTO's Urban Street Design Guide and Urban Bikeway Design Guide; Outlines innovative designs around the world to address a variety of international issues and contexts
Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies and launched in 2014, the Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI) focuses on the critical role of streets around the world. GDCI is committed to raising the state of the practice for street design and transportation by building a common vision, sharing data, peer-to-peer exchanges and regular communication among international cities.
"For more than a century, street life was what grew through the
cracks in pavement--a liveliness that thrived despite the asphalt
and traffic. The Global Street Design Guide starts from an opposite
principle, that we can't wait for streets to produce human outliers
that survive against the odds, but that we must instead design them
to make active, engaging street life inevitable."--Jan Gehl,
Urbanist, Architect, and author of "Cities for People"
"Cities are undergoing a street design revolution, and the Global
Street Design Guide is the first document to capture the brave new
world of strategies that are transforming cities on every
continent. Drawn from life and sourced with real-world examples,
this guide establishes a new categorical imperative for safer
streets that level the playing field for transit, bike riders, and
pedestrians. It creates a new international language for urban
livability, mobility, and economy."--Janette Sadik-Khan, Bloomberg
Associates, former Transportation Commissioner for New York
City
"Smart street design improves lives in so many ways, from reducing
emissions that cause harmful air pollution and drive climate
change, to making streets safer and helping local businesses. The
Global Street Design Guide is a powerful resource that can help
cities around the world become safer and stronger."--Michael R.
Bloomberg, former Mayor of New York City
"By recognizing the joyful complexity of urban life, as well as the
reality that different nations and cultures have different
resources and needs, the [Global Street Design Guide] inevitably
debunks the one-size-fits-all street design manuals that originated
in the mid-20th century and should now be put in the dustbin of
history...The Global Street Design Guide, if adopted and applied,
will dramatically improve...standards and practices in cities
around the world." -- "Nature of Cities"
"This invaluable guide brings together extremely useful information
and metrics that can assist city administrations, urban designers,
planners, landscape architects, and the public in forging new
directions in street design...the Global Street Design Guide should
find its way onto the shelves of all design and planning firms
responsible for improving urban streets, regardless of where they
practice." -- "ASLA's The Dirt"
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