Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution -- Janette Sadik-Khan

<b>Like a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City's streets to make room for pedestrians, bikers, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change, <i>Streetfight </i>imparts wisdom and practical advice that other cities can follow to make their own streets safer and more vibrant. </b> <p/>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. <br> Breaking the street into its component parts, <i>Streetfight</i> 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 <i>Streetfight</i> pulls back the curtain on the battles Sadik-Khan won to make her approach work. She includes examples of how this new way to r