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→In response to these unprecedented demands, cities around the country are developing an innovative body of practice and expertise to design for and around the special characteristics of the urban environment. From New York’s Times Square to Chicago’s Wacker Drive to Spring Street in Los Angeles, a better approach to and understanding of street design is taking root in our cities.

→About the Guide
Over the coming century, the challenges borne by cities and the burdens placed upon their streets will multiply in quantity and complexity. Growing urban populations will demand that their streets serve not only as corridors for the conveyance of people, goods, and services, but as front yards, parks, playgrounds, and public spaces. Streets must accommodate an ever-expanding set of needs. They must be safe, sustainable, resilient, multi-modal, and economically beneficial, all while accommodating traffic.

→About the Guide
Over the coming century, the challenges borne by cities and the burdens placed upon their streets will multiply in quantity and complexity. Growing urban populations will demand that their streets serve not only as corridors for the conveyance of people, goods, and services, but as front yards, parks, playgrounds, and public spaces. Streets must accommodate an ever-expanding set of needs. They must be safe, sustainable, resilient, multi-modal, and economically beneficial, all while accommodating traffic.

→LEVELS OF GUIDANCE
For a majority of topics and treatments in the guide, the reader will find three levels of guidance. Certain sections contain a general discussion only and have no critical, recommended, or optional points.

→Certain sections of the guide reference material in its companion document, the Urban Bikeway Design Guide (2nd edition), which may be accessed online at c4cguide.org.

→CRITICAL

→3. Optional Features are elements that may vary across cities and may add value depending on the situation.

→2. Recommended Features are elements for which there is a strong consensus of added value.

→1. Critical Features are elements for which there is a strong consensus that the treatment cannot be implemented without.

→The Urban Street Design Guide lays out the principles and vision for a new generation of city street design in a dynamic, engaging visual context both online and in print. It is a mirror of the new city street, easy to use and inviting for all.

→Still, transformation can take time, and can be difficult in the built environment of a city. New York City and others have been leading the way to making these changes through a new, faster implementation process. Improvements that use low-cost materials like planters, bollards, and markings can bring enormous benefits in a short period of time. In this guide, for the first time, the recipes for doing these quick implementation projects are laid out for the cities around the country and the world who are clamoring for it.

→The Urban Street Design Guide gives an overview of the principles that cities are using to make their streets safe and inviting for people walking, shopping, parking, and driving in an urban context. These principles are about creating real spaces for people on city streets. Economic development is integrally tied into this transformation, since great streets support city businesses. And paramount to all of this is the safety of people, old and young, on our city streets.

→As president of the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), I’ve led a group of cities engaged in creating this new set of standards for city streets. In 2011, we released the first edition of the Urban Bikeway Design Guide, and now we’re releasing the Urban Street Design Guide with a much broader scope. The impulse to write a new guidebook started in individual cities, with over ten major guides written over the last few years, tailored to those individual cities. In New York City, we released a new Street Design Manual in 2009. These publications are already changing the game, pulling away from a bias toward highway designs that simply don’t meet the complex needs of cities.

→Foreword
This design guide is part of a growing movement among cities, from New York to San Francisco, and from Chicago to Houston. Together, we’re working to build sustainable streets that will carry us into the 21st Century and create a new DNA for city streets.