“One of the best handbooks, histories, and teaching texts written in the present century,” Mark Alan Hewitt FAIA, Common Edge
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Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk says, “This book should be required reading in schools of urban design, architecture, and landscape architecture, and an understanding of it should be part of the licensing requirements for civil, traffic, and transportation engineers.”
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On the importance of Street Design
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The singular form looks better in isolation than it would on a city street.
Similar comments can be made about streets -
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#JustAesthetics #JaneJacobs
"When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
From Death & Life:
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Every American city has highways that enter the city. Off-ramps dump cars onto the grids, and those are points of friction, with traffic jams and traffic deaths, as drivers continue their aggravating sub-urban drives.
People walking in Manhattan know to stay away from places like the Holland and Lincoln tunnels during rush hours. Many driving to and from the tunnels are in a #RoadRage, not thinking about vulnerable MHOs (Moving Hazardous Objects, aka “people,” @Street_Design page 39). @OpenPlans @TransAlt @GVSHP @OffRampNYC
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Dear @NY_Clean_Air -
"Above 100th Street, playing fields run along the highway for a quarter mile. Beautiful mature plane trees shade the playing fields, holding the polluted air under the leaves. The train tracks and the esplanade above make a tall barrier along the east side of the playfield that holds the air in too. In California, the law prohibits building playgrounds or playing fields within 500 feet of a highway."
Page 232 in Street Design, The Secret to Cities and Towns, @WileyGlobal, 2026.
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More views, including the beautiful Sycamores that trap the pollution from the highway:
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Not more than 30 feet from the largest playing fields and playground on the Upper West Side. This would be illegal in California.
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A view including some of the street. In some ways, the oldest street in New York. The trees are beautiful. @Street_Design
“The design of cities begins with the design of streets.” – @Street_Design
This ís Broadway, one of the most important streets in New York. Robert Moses and his designers short changed the city.
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The fietsvlonder (bike platform) has been reshaping Rotterdam streets for a decade.
It swaps one car parking space for a temporary structure that accommodates a dozen bicycles.
If successful after a few months, the curb is permanently rebuilt, and it moves to the next location.
ALT Dozens of bicycles are parked on two temporary structures along a Rotterdam street.
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“The design of cities begins with the design of streets.” – @Street_Design
This ís Broadway, one of the most important streets in New York. Robert Moses and his designers short changed the city.
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Good to be working in @haringeycouncil to improve walking and cycling in the borough, while making the roads safer for people.
Exciting to see plans for new cycle routes coming forward 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲
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The downside of the chamfered corners as used in the Eixample in Barcelona was that they created very wide streets, with a lot of wide-open asphalt to cross – which is why they lend themselves so well to the new low-traffic superblocks.
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This is a high-traffic street. It has no painted lanes and compared to the same street in an American city it is practically naked. #TheMondermanRule
We're working with London's boroughs to grow our Cycleway Network and enable more people to safely cycle around the capital.
I'm looking forward to working with @lbhf who, last night, approved the new Olympia to Hammersmith section of Cycleway 9.
👏👏@nicoletrehy 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲
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The Monderman Rule
For safer and more livable streets, it is better to remove traffic signs and markings than to add them.
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QUOTE: "This is the most important book on street design in the English language. Every highways department, planning authority, urban designer and architectural practice, should have a well-thumbed copy. If they don’t, you should worry. Elected councillors working with highways or planning officials should check that they do. Clients commissioning streets, squares or neighbourhoods should do likewise. If they don’t have it, hire another consultant. Street Design is that good." - Nicholas Boys Smith, @createstreets
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The plans to rebuild Parliament are indeed indefensible, outrageous, unnecessary. The most wasteful scope creep I have ever seen. Here’s what’s wrong with them, why and how to fix it: thecritic.co.uk/call-for-the…
