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Walkable city rules / Jeff Speck

Público ISBD Ningún comentario para este registro. Título : Walkable city rules Otro título : 101 steps to making better places Tipo de documento: texto impreso Autores: Jeff Speck, Autor Editorial: Washington, DC [New York] : Island Press Fecha de publicación: 2018 Número de páginas: 310 p. Il.: il., … a color Dimensiones: 20 cm. ISBN/ISSN/DL: 978-1-61091-898-5 Precio: 144000 Idioma : Inglés (eng) Idioma original : Inglés (eng) Palabras clave: Arquitectura y diseño respetuosos con el medio ambiente  Urbanismo-Aspectos arquitectónicos  Comunidades urbanas  Transporte libros Resumen: “Cities are the future of the human race, and Jeff Speck knows how to make them work.” David Owen, staff writer at the New Yorker Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable—for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment—yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is seldom easy. Jeff Speck’s follow-up to his bestselling Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. Walkable City Rules is a doer’s guide to making change in cities, and making it now. The 101 rules are practical yet engaging—worded for arguments at the planning commission, illustrated for clarity, and packed with specifications as well as data. For ease of use, the rules are grouped into 19 chapters that cover everything from selling walkability, to getting the parking right, escaping automobilism, making comfortable spaces and interesting places, and doing it now! Walkable City was written to inspire; Walkable City Rules was written to enable. It is the most comprehensive tool available for bringing the latest and most effective city-planning practices to bear in your community. The content and presentation make it a force multiplier for place-makers and change-makers everywhere. “Las ciudades son el futuro de la raza humana y Jeff Speck sabe cómo hacer que funcionen”. David Owen, redactor del New Yorker Casi todas las ciudades de EE. UU. quisieran ser más transitables, por razones de salud, riqueza y medio ambiente, pero pocas están tomando las medidas adecuadas para lograrlo. Los objetivos suelen ser claros, pero el camino rara vez es fácil. La continuación de Jeff Speck de su éxito de ventas Walkable City es el recurso que las ciudades y los ciudadanos necesitan para marcar el comienzo de una era de vida en la calle renovada. Walkable City Rules es una guía para hacer cambios en las ciudades y hacerlo ahora. Las 101 reglas son prácticas pero atractivas: redactadas para los argumentos en la comisión de planificación, ilustradas para mayor claridad y repletas de especificaciones y datos. Para facilitar su uso, las reglas están agrupadas en 19 capítulos que cubren todo, desde vender la accesibilidad para peatones hasta acertar con el estacionamiento, escapar del automovilismo, crear espacios cómodos y lugares interesantes, ¡y hacerlo ahora! Walkable City fue escrito para inspirar; Las reglas de la ciudad transitable se escribieron para habilitar. Es la herramienta más completa disponible para llevar las prácticas de planificación urbana más recientes y efectivas a su comunidad. El contenido y la presentación lo convierten en un multiplicador de fuerza para creadores de lugares y creadores de cambios en todas partes. Nota de contenido: Author`s Note XIV Introduction XVI Part I. SELL WALKABILITY 1. Sell Walkability on Wealth 2. Sell Walkability on Health 3. Sell Walkability on Climate Change 4. Sell Walkability on Equity 5. Sell Walkability on Community Part II. MIX THE USES 6. Invest in attainable housing downtown 7. Push for local schools 8. Push for local parks 9. Fix your codes 10. Do the Math Part III. MAKE HOUSING ATTAINABLE AND INTEGRATED 11. Mandate smart inclusionary Zoning 12. Encourage Granny Flats 13. Leverage housing with parking lots 14. Fight Displacement 15. Enact "Housing First" Part IV. GET THE PARKING RIGHT 16. Eliminate on-site parking requirements 17. Make downtown parking a public utility 18. Decouple and share parking 19. Price parking based on its value Part V. LET TRANSIT WORK 20. Coordinate transit and land use 21. Redesign your bus network 22. Build streetcars, but as a development tool 23. Consider the transit experience 24. Create bikeshare that works 25. Don`t mistake uber for transit 26. Anticipate autonomous vehicles Part VI. ESCAPE AUTOMOBILISM 27. Understand induced demand 28. Tear down a highway 29. Congestion-Price city centers 30. Close a street to cars - maybe Part VII. START WITH SAFETY 31. Focus on speeding 32. Discuss the time cost of safety 33. Adopt vision zero 34. Adopt a downtown speed limit 35. Install red-light cameras and speed cameras Part VIII. OPTIMIZE YOUR DRIVING NETWORK 36. Understand Network function 37. keep blocks small 38. Revert multilane one-ways to two way for business 39. Revert multilane one-ways to two way for safety 40. Revert multilane one-ways to two way for convenience 41. Revert multilane one-ways properly Part IX. RIGHT-SIZE THE NUMBER OF LANES 42. Challenge traffic studies 43. Challenge level of service 44. Challenge functional classificatión 45. Cut the extra lanes 46. Road-diet your four-laners 47. Limit the turn lanes Part X. RIGHT-SIZE THE LANES 48. Adopt a 10-foot standard for free-flow lanes 49. Restripe to a 10-foot standard 50. Build slow-flow and Yield-flow streets 51. Expand the fire Chief`s mandate Part XI. SELL CYCLING 52. Justify biking investment 53. Understand that cycling follows investment 54. Avoid common cycling pitfalls Part XII. BUILD YOUR BIKE NETWORK 55. Understand bike network function 56. Turn existing corridors into bike paths 57. Build bicycle Boulevards 58. Build cycle tracks 59. Build cycle tracks properly 60. Use conventional bike lanes where they belong 61. Build conventional bike lanes properly 62. Do not use sharrows as cycling facilities Part XIII. PARK ON STREET 63. Put curb parking almost everywhere 64. Design parallel parking properly 65. Provide angle parking where warranted Part XIV. FOCUS ON GEOMETRY 66. Avoid swoops, slip lanes, and sight triangles 67. Design left-turn lanes properly 68. Provide neckdowns at wide crossings 69. Use roundabouts with discretion 70. Do not "fix" complexity 71. Remove centerlines on neighborhood streets 72. Create pedestrian zones properly Part XV. FOCUS ON INTERSECTIONS 73. Make great crosswalks 74. Keep signals simple 75. Bag the beg buttons and countdown clocks 76. Replace signals with all-way stops 77. Build naked streets and shared spaces Part XVI. MAKE SIDEWALKS RIGHT 78. Put trees almost everywhere 79. Select and locate street trees properly 80. Design sidewalks properly 81. Disallow curb cuts 82. Introduce parklets Part XVII. MAKE COMFORTABLE SPACES 83. Make firm edges 84. Never allow front parking 85. Build Vancouver urbanism 86. Use lighting to support urbanism 87. Don´t let terrorists design your city Part XVIII. MAKE INTERESTING PLACES 88. Make sticky edges 89. Limit repetition 90. Break up big buildings 91. Save those buildings 92. Hide the parking structures 93. Direct your public art budget to blank walls Part XIX. DO IT NOW 94. Do a walkability study 95. Do a frontage quality assessment and locate anchors 96. Identify the network of walkability 97. Rebuild... or restripe? 98. Do some tactical urbanism 99. Start code reform now 100. Don`t give up on sprawl 101. Dream big - Epilogue 1 Exceptions - Epilogue 2 Perfection vs goodness - Epilogue 3 Models - Acknowledgments - Notes - Work cited - Image Credits - Index Walkable city rules = 101 steps to making better places [texto impreso] / Jeff Speck, Autor . - Washington, DC [New York] : Island Press, 2018 . - 310 p. : il., … a color ; 20 cm. ISBN : 978-1-61091-898-5 : 144000 Idioma : Inglés (eng) Idioma original : Inglés (eng) Palabras clave: Arquitectura y diseño respetuosos con el medio ambiente  Urbanismo-Aspectos arquitectónicos  Comunidades urbanas  Transporte libros Resumen: “Cities are the future of the human race, and Jeff Speck knows how to make them work.” David Owen, staff writer at the New Yorker Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable—for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment—yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is seldom easy. Jeff Speck’s follow-up to his bestselling Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. Walkable City Rules is a doer’s guide to making change in cities, and making it now. The 101 rules are practical yet engaging—worded for arguments at the planning commission, illustrated for clarity, and packed with specifications as well as data. For ease of use, the rules are grouped into 19 chapters that cover everything from selling walkability, to getting the parking right, escaping automobilism, making comfortable spaces and interesting places, and doing it now! Walkable City was written to inspire; Walkable City Rules was written to enable. It is the most comprehensive tool available for bringing the latest and most effective city-planning practices to bear in your community. The content and presentation make it a force multiplier for place-makers and change-makers everywhere. “Las ciudades son el futuro de la raza humana y Jeff Speck sabe cómo hacer que funcionen”. David Owen, redactor del New Yorker Casi todas las ciudades de EE. UU. quisieran ser más transitables, por razones de salud, riqueza y medio ambiente, pero pocas están tomando las medidas adecuadas para lograrlo. Los objetivos suelen ser claros, pero el camino rara vez es fácil. La continuación de Jeff Speck de su éxito de ventas Walkable City es el recurso que las ciudades y los ciudadanos necesitan para marcar el comienzo de una era de vida en la calle renovada. Walkable City Rules es una guía para hacer cambios en las ciudades y hacerlo ahora. Las 101 reglas son prácticas pero atractivas: redactadas para los argumentos en la comisión de planificación, ilustradas para mayor claridad y repletas de especificaciones y datos. Para facilitar su uso, las reglas están agrupadas en 19 capítulos que cubren todo, desde vender la accesibilidad para peatones hasta acertar con el estacionamiento, escapar del automovilismo, crear espacios cómodos y lugares interesantes, ¡y hacerlo ahora! Walkable City fue escrito para inspirar; Las reglas de la ciudad transitable se escribieron para habilitar. Es la herramienta más completa disponible para llevar las prácticas de planificación urbana más recientes y efectivas a su comunidad. El contenido y la presentación lo convierten en un multiplicador de fuerza para creadores de lugares y creadores de cambios en todas partes. Nota de contenido: Author`s Note XIV Introduction XVI Part I. SELL WALKABILITY 1. Sell Walkability on Wealth 2. Sell Walkability on Health 3. Sell Walkability on Climate Change 4. Sell Walkability on Equity 5. Sell Walkability on Community Part II. MIX THE USES 6. Invest in attainable housing downtown 7. Push for local schools 8. Push for local parks 9. Fix your codes 10. Do the Math Part III. MAKE HOUSING ATTAINABLE AND INTEGRATED 11. Mandate smart inclusionary Zoning 12. Encourage Granny Flats 13. Leverage housing with parking lots 14. Fight Displacement 15. Enact "Housing First" Part IV. GET THE PARKING RIGHT 16. Eliminate on-site parking requirements 17. Make downtown parking a public utility 18. Decouple and share parking 19. Price parking based on its value Part V. LET TRANSIT WORK 20. Coordinate transit and land use 21. Redesign your bus network 22. Build streetcars, but as a development tool 23. Consider the transit experience 24. Create bikeshare that works 25. Don`t mistake uber for transit 26. Anticipate autonomous vehicles Part VI. ESCAPE AUTOMOBILISM 27. Understand induced demand 28. Tear down a highway 29. Congestion-Price city centers 30. Close a street to cars - maybe Part VII. START WITH SAFETY 31. Focus on speeding 32. Discuss the time cost of safety 33. Adopt vision zero 34. Adopt a downtown speed limit 35. Install red-light cameras and speed cameras Part VIII. OPTIMIZE YOUR DRIVING NETWORK 36. Understand Network function 37. keep blocks small 38. Revert multilane one-ways to two way for business 39. Revert multilane one-ways to two way for safety 40. Revert multilane one-ways to two way for convenience 41. Revert multilane one-ways properly Part IX. RIGHT-SIZE THE NUMBER OF LANES 42. Challenge traffic studies 43. Challenge level of service 44. Challenge functional classificatión 45. Cut the extra lanes 46. Road-diet your four-laners 47. Limit the turn lanes Part X. RIGHT-SIZE THE LANES 48. Adopt a 10-foot standard for free-flow lanes 49. Restripe to a 10-foot standard 50. Build slow-flow and Yield-flow streets 51. Expand the fire Chief`s mandate Part XI. SELL CYCLING 52. Justify biking investment 53. Understand that cycling follows investment 54. Avoid common cycling pitfalls Part XII. BUILD YOUR BIKE NETWORK 55. Understand bike network function 56. Turn existing corridors into bike paths 57. Build bicycle Boulevards 58. Build cycle tracks 59. Build cycle tracks properly 60. Use conventional bike lanes where they belong 61. Build conventional bike lanes properly 62. Do not use sharrows as cycling facilities Part XIII. PARK ON STREET 63. Put curb parking almost everywhere 64. Design parallel parking properly 65. Provide angle parking where warranted Part XIV. FOCUS ON GEOMETRY 66. Avoid swoops, slip lanes, and sight triangles 67. Design left-turn lanes properly 68. Provide neckdowns at wide crossings 69. Use roundabouts with discretion 70. Do not "fix" complexity 71. Remove centerlines on neighborhood streets 72. Create pedestrian zones properly Part XV. FOCUS ON INTERSECTIONS 73. Make great crosswalks 74. Keep signals simple 75. Bag the beg buttons and countdown clocks 76. Replace signals with all-way stops 77. Build naked streets and shared spaces Part XVI. MAKE SIDEWALKS RIGHT 78. Put trees almost everywhere 79. Select and locate street trees properly 80. Design sidewalks properly 81. Disallow curb cuts 82. Introduce parklets Part XVII. MAKE COMFORTABLE SPACES 83. Make firm edges 84. Never allow front parking 85. Build Vancouver urbanism 86. Use lighting to support urbanism 87. Don´t let terrorists design your city Part XVIII. MAKE INTERESTING PLACES 88. Make sticky edges 89. Limit repetition 90. Break up big buildings 91. Save those buildings 92. Hide the parking structures 93. Direct your public art budget to blank walls Part XIX. DO IT NOW 94. Do a walkability study 95. Do a frontage quality assessment and locate anchors 96. Identify the network of walkability 97. Rebuild... or restripe? 98. Do some tactical urbanism 99. Start code reform now 100. Don`t give up on sprawl 101. Dream big - Epilogue 1 Exceptions - Epilogue 2 Perfection vs goodness - Epilogue 3 Models - Acknowledgments - Notes - Work cited - Image Credits - Index

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