Designing living streets - a guide to creating lively, walkable neighbourhoods

This publication is part of the UK charity 'Living Streets' campaign to reclaim the streets for the use of pedestrians. The topics covered include matching a street to its purpose, letting people walk where they want to go, making it easy to cross the street, improving the condition of the pavement, making the street accessible for everybody, stopping nuisance, improving the facilities for people walking, improving the design and look of the street, making the street safer, reducing the negative effects of traffic, bringing back street life, and glossary. Each chapter has a comments form requesting feedback and examples of good and bad design for use in a future updated edition.

• Corporate Authors:

  Living Streets

  31-33 Bondway
  London,   United Kingdom  SW8 1SJ
• Authors:
  • ABLEY, S
  • Hill, E
• Publication Date: 2005

Language

• English

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highway design; Improvements; Pavement design; Pedestrians; Persons with disabilities; Planning; Policy; Public participation; Repairing; Walkways
• Uncontrolled Terms: Street furniture
• ITRD Terms: 1726: Disabled person; 2720: Footway; 2855: Highway design; 9108: Improvement; 3055: Pavement design; 1733: Pedestrian; 143: Planning; 173: Policy; 142: Public participation; 3635: Repair; 381: Street furniture
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Environment; Highways; Pavements; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Society; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01012690
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Dec 21 2005 2:58PM