Street Fight
Subtitle: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Publisher: Viking; An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780525429845
Description: 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 more 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.
Table of contents: title: Preface XI; title: Introduction 1; label: Chapter  1
title: The Fight
pagenum: 7; label: Chapter  2
title: Density is Destiny
pagenum: 23; label: Chapter  3
title: Setting the Agenda
pagenum: 33; label: Chapter  4
title: How to Read the Street
pagenum: 47; label: Chapter  5
title: Follow the Footsteps
pagenum: 73; label: Chapter  6
title: Battle for a New Times Square
pagenum: 91; label: Chapter  7
title: Stealing Good Ideas
pagenum: 109; label: Chapter  8
title: Bike Lanes and Their Discontents
pagenum: 143; label: Chapter  9
title: Bike Share: A New Frontier in the Shared Economy
pagenum: 179; label: Chapter 10
title: Safety in Numbers
pagenum: 207; label: Chapter 11
title: Sorry to Interrupt, but We Have to Talk About Buses
pagenum: 233; label: Chapter 12
title: Measuring the Street
pagenum: 251; label: Chapter 13
title: Nuts and Bolts
pagenum: 265; label: Chapter 14
title: The Fight Continues
pagenum: 281; label: Acknowledgements
title: 295; label: Notes
title: 299; label: Index
title: 337