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Global Street Design Guide

Acknowledgements


Bloomberg Philanthropies


Kelly Henning
Kelly Larson
Rebecca Bavinger

Advisory Board

Janette Sadik-Khan
Linda Bailey
Hal Harvey
Margaret Newman
Helle Soholt
Darren Walker
Mark Watts


Global Designing Cities Initiative


Skye Duncan
Ankita Chachra
Abhimanyu Prakash
Fabrizio Prati


National Association of City Transportation Officials


Linda Bailey
Laurie Almian-Derian
Alex Engel
Kate Fillin-Yeh
Ted Graves
Corinne Kisner
Matthew Roe
Craig Toocheck
Aaron Villere


Bloomberg Associates


Janette Sadik-Khan
Nicholas Mosquera
Seth Solomonow
Andrew Wiley-Schwartz


Bloomberg Initiative For Global Road Safety Partners


EMBARQ – World Resources Institute
Global New Car Assessment Program
Global Road Safety Partnership
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The World Bank-Led Global Road Safety Facility
Vital Strategies
World Health Organization


C40


Seth Schultz
Clare Healy
Laura Jay
Gunjan Parik
Kathryn Urquhart


CONSULTANTS


Arup


Susan Ambrosini
Gabriela Antunes
Anthony Durante
Ellen Greenberg
Penny Hall
Joseph Kardos
Pablo Lazo
Vincent Lee
Trent Lethco
Paula Saad
Varanesh Singh


Nelson Nygaard


Michael King
Ria Lo
Paul Moore
Karina Ricks
Jeffery Tumlin
Shivam Vohra
Stephanie Wright


MRCagney


Peter Breen
Steven Burgess
Chris Dowie
Melissa Dunlop
Gerard Reardon
Will Somerville


Sam Schwartz Engineering


Michael Flynn
Sam Frommer
Vig Krishnamurthy


Pure + Applied


Paul Carlos
Urshula Barbour
Chris Mills
Shantal Henry
Miles Baretto
Nick Cesare
Karilyn Johansen
Carrie Kawamura
Others
Lee Altman
Anita Bulan
Guangyue Cao
Thomas F. Reynolds
Maria Agustina Santana
Ziyang Zeng


GLOBAL CONTRIBUTORS


Argentina


Buenos Aires
Soledad Aguirre Sors
Guillo Dietrich
Juanjo Mendez
Sol Mountford


Australia


Gosford
Judy Jaeger
Melbourne
Rob Adams
Steven Burgess
Leanne Hodyl
Rob Moore
Stuart Niven
Bart Sbeghen
Ros Rymer
Sydney
Sandy Burgoyne
Kerry Gallagher
Simon Lowe
Emily Scott
Victoria State
Kristie Howes
Giles Michaux
Daniel Przychodzki
Lorrae Wild


Azerbaijan


Baku
Vusal Rajabli


Brazil


Fortaleza
Ezequiel Dantas
Diego França
Porto Alegre
Tony Lindau
Marta Obelheiro
Rio de Janerio
Priscila Coli Rocha
Clarisse Cunha Linke
Mauricio Duarte Pereira
Washington Fajardo
André Lopes Pacheco Ormond
São Paulo
Ciro Biderman
Adriano Borges Costa
Gabi Callejas
Danielle Hoppe
Fernando Mello Franco
Gustavo Partezani Rodrigues
Luis Eduardo Surian Brettas


Canada


Toronto
Mark Van Elsberg
Winnipeg
Anders Swanson


China


Beijing
Karl Fjellstrom
Greg Smith
Shanghai
Sybren Boomsma
Xuesong Wang


Colombia


Bogota
Leidy Constanza Lopez Mateus
William Mauricio V. Caicedo
Carlos Felipe Pardo
Diana Wiesner
Medellín
Margarita Maria Angel Bernal
Carlos Cadena Gaitan


Denmark


Copenhagen
Sofie Kvist
Jeff Risom


Ecuador


Quito
Ana Maria Duran Calisto
Jaime Izurieta-Varea


England


Ashford
Toby Howe
Emma Maclennan
London
Philip Jones
Esther Kurland
Lilli Matson
Ben Plowden


Ethiopia


Addis Ababa
Mulugeta Abeje


Finland


Helsinki
Reeta Keisanen
Reeta Putkonen


Georgia


Tbilisi
Gela Kvashilava


Germany


Berlin
Burkhard Horn
Joerg Ortlepp
Maria Pohle
Karlsruhe
Andre Munch


Ghana


Accra
Nabe Kanfiegue
Michael Konadu
Magnus Lincoln Quarshie
Korama Ocran


Greece


Athens
Stelios Efstathiadis


Haiti


Cite Soleil
Louino Robillard


India


Ahmedabad
Anuj Malhotra
Bangalore
Swati Ramanathan
Chennai
Raj Cherubal
Shreya Gadepalli
Advait Jani
Madonna Thomas
Mumbai
Samarth Das
Binoy Mascerenhas
New Delhi
Piyush Tewari


Indonesia


Bandung
Nunun Yanuati


Israel


Jerusalem
Ofer Manor


Kenya


Nairobi
Cecilia Andersson
Christopher Kost
Hilary Murphy
Laura Petrella
Robyn Watson


Korea


Daegu
Keong-Gu Hong
Seoul
Yong-Jin Cho
Noh Soo Hong


Kosovo


Prishtina
Bekim Ramku


Kyrgyzstan


Bishkek
Chinara Kasmambetova


Laos


Vientiane
Bradley D Schroeder


Mexico


Mexico City
Salvador Herrera
Alejandro Larios Morales
Dhyana Quintanar Solares
Monterrey
Gabriel E. Todd
Puebla
Adán Domínguez
Giovanni Zayas Franzoni


Moldova


Chisinau
Tatiana Mihailova


New Zealand


Auckland
Ludo Campbell-Reid
Hayley Fitchett
Simon Harrison
Don Mckenzie
Lennart Nout
Christchurch
Melizza Morales Hoyos
Hugh Nicholson
Wellington
Megan Wraight


Peru


Lima
Mariana Alegre Escorza


Russia


Moscow
Artur Shakhbazyan


Scotland


Glasgow
Gillian Black


Singapore


Singapore
Andrew David Fassam
Yi Ling Pang


South Africa


Cape Town
Katherine Ewing
Rashiq Fataar
Barbara Southworth


Sweden


Goethenburg
Suzanne Andersson
Stockholm
Daniel Firth
Svante Guterstam
Alexander Stahle


Switzerland


Geneva
Sandra Piritz


The Netherlands


Delft
Dick Van Deen
Rotterdam
Koen De Boo


Turkey


Istanbul
Merve Aki
Cigdem Corek


United States


Baltimore
Adnan Hyder
Andres Ignacio Vecino Ortiz
Boston
Michael Murphy
Jeffrey L. Rosenblum
Connecticut
Norman Garrick
Madison
Jason Vargo
Malden
David Vega-Barachowitz
New York
Philippa Brashear
Oscar Correa
David Grahame Shane
Eric Jaffe
Ethan Kent
Lee Jung Kim
Michael King
Michael Kodransky
Karen Lee
Geeta Mehta
Justin Garrett Moore
Richard Plunz
Andrew Rudd
Jeffrey Shumaker
Morana Stipisic
Gary Toth
Nans Voron
Portland
Nick Falbo
Peter Koonce
San Francisco
Illaria Salvadori
Paul Supawanich
Robin Abad Ocubillo
Seattle
Nathan Polanski
Washington, DC
Julie Babinard
Soames Job
Ben Welle


Vietnam


Ho Chi Minh City
Tra Vu


Zambia


Kalumbila
Carl Johan Collet


CASE STUDY CONTRIBUTORS


Strøget, Copenhagen


Helle Soholt, Gehl Architects
Lars Gemzoe, Gehl Architects
Kym Lansel, Gehl Architects
Jeff Risom, Gehl Architects


Laneways of Melbourne


Rob Adams, City of Melbourne
Paula Kilpatrick, City of Melbourne
Andrea Kleist, City of Melbourne
Fiona McGilton, City of Melbourne
Jack O’Connor, City of Melbourne
Ros Rymer, City of Melbourne
Bart Sbeghen, Bicycle Network


Pavement to Parks, San Francisco


Robin Abad Ocubillo, City of San Francisco
Ilaria Salvadori, Pavement to Parks


Plaza Program, NYC


Andrew Wiley-Schwartz, Bloomberg Associates
Emily Weidenhof, NYC Department of Transportation


Fort Street, Auckland


Ludo Campbell-Reid, Auckland Council
Eric Van Essen, Auckland Transport
Hayley Fitchett, Auckland Council
Simon Harrison, Auckland Council
Kitt Isidro, Auckland Council


Van Gogh Walk, London


Esther Kurland, Transport for London
Colette Lock-Wah-Hoon, Transport for London
Ben Plowden, Transport for London


St. Mark’s Road, Bangalore


Swati Ramanathan, Jana Urban Space


Bourke Street, Sydney


Adam Fowler, City of Sydney
Fiona Gallagher, City of Sydney
Kerry Gallagher, City of Sydney


2nd Avenue, New York City


Matthew Roe, NACTO
Eric Beaton, NYC Department of
Transportation


Götgatan, Stockholm


Daniel Firth, City of Stockholm


Swanston Street, Melbourne


Rob Adams, City of Melbourne
Paula Kilpatrick, City of Melbourne
Andrea Kleist, City of Melbourne
Fiona McGilton, City of Melbourne
Jack O’Connor, City of Melbourne
Ros Rymer, City of Melbourne
Bart Sbeghen, Bicycle Network
Dongsei Kim, AXU Studio


Avenue de Magenta, Paris


Maud Charasson, Apur
Patricia Pelloux, Apur


Avenida 9 de Julio, Buenos Aires


Soledad Aguirre Sors, City of Buenos Aires


A8ernA, Zaanstad


Kamiel Klaasse, NL Architects


Cheonggyecheon, Seoul


Lee Kim, AKRF, Inc
Prof. Soo Hong Noh, Yonsei University


Historic Peninsula, Istanbul


Cigdem Corek, Embarq Turkey


21st Street, Paso Robles


Brice Maryman, Svr Design
Nathan Polanski, Svr Design


Raahgiri Day, Gurgaon


Amit Bhatt, Embarq India
Kanika Jindal, Embarq India


Jellicoe Street, Auckland


Ludo Campbell-Reid, Auckland Council
Simon Harrison, Auckland Council
Kitt Isidro, Auckland Council
Megan Wraight, Wraight & Associates Ltd


Queens Quay, Toronto


Mark Van Elsenberg, City of Toronto
Pina Mallozzi, Waterfront Toronto
Mike Shenker, Waterfront Toronto


Khayelitsha, Cape Town


Kathryn Ewing, Vpuu
Barbara Southworth, Gapp Architects


Calle 107, Medellín


Maria Camila Mejia Pelaez, City of Medellín
Juan Andres Munos Airey, Edu


Street of Korogocho, Nairobi


Cecilia Andersson, Un Habitat
Laura Petrella, Un Habitat
Andrew Rudd, Un Habitat
Robyn Watson, Un Habitat


Photo Credits


All images used in this guide are taken by the authors, unless specified below.


XIV NYC Department of Transportation; XVIII top right Hector Rios, bottom left ITDP China; XIX top centre Jeffery Shumaker, middle right Artur Shakhbazyan.
2 Shaping Streets: 19 Andrew Curtis; 32 Centre for Mobility, Ahmedabad; 34 Despacio–Carlosfelipe Pardo; 41 right WRI–Mariana Gil.
3 Measuring and Evaluating Streets: 45 NYC Department of Transportation.
6 Designing Streets for People: 79 middle Ezequiel Dantas; 83 ITDP Chennai; 99 top Laura Camus Sanchez, bottom Daniel Firth, 105 ITDP China,109 left ITDP China; 113 bottom Citypass; 143 top Laetitia Dablanc, IFSTTAR French Institute for Transport Research, second from top

ITDP; 149 bottom Center for Urban Pedagogy.
7 Utilities and Infrastructure 154 left David Vega-Barachowitz.
8 Operational and management Strategies 174 Karl Fjellstrom.
10 Street Transformations: 197 ITDP, China; 198 Gehl Architects; 202 Jeffery Shumaker; 204 top City of Melbourne; 209 top Fabio Aranles, middle Gillian Black, bottom Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; 210 Sam Heller; 212 Transportation Secretariat, City Government of Buenos Aires; 214 top Hector Rios, bottom Artur Shakhbazyan; 216 NYC Department of Transportation; 217 NYC Department of Transportation; 222 bottom left Soledad Arguirre Sors; 223 Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council; 224 top Patrick Reynolds, bottom Jay Farnworth; 230 top Elaine Kramer; 234 Victor Macedo; 236 Gilmar Altamirano; 240 City of Sydney; 245 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; 258 NYC Department of Transportation; 263 top Ministry of Environment of the Mexico City Government; 265 Adam Coppola Photography; 266 City of Stockholm; 270 Karl Fjellstrom; 271 Carlosfelipe Pardo; 273 left Karl Fjellstrom; 274 top City of Melbourne, bottom Dongsei Kim; 276 bottom left Carlosfelipe Pardo; 277 Carlosfelipe Pardo; 279 ITDP China; 280 ARUP; 283 left Karl Fjellstrom, right Duan Xiaomei; 285 left Vuong Tran-Quang; 286 Karl Fjellstrom; 287 Karl Fjellstrom; 288 City of Bueno Aires; 293 top NYC Department of Transportation; 294 NL Architects; 298 Seoul Metropolitan Facilities Management Corporation; 301 Nupur Prakash; 302 top SvR Design Company, bottom CannonCorp Engineering; 307 top Chris Kost; 308 WRI EMBARQ India; 312 Auckland Council; 315 NYC Department of Transportation; 316 Waterfront Toronto; 319 Gustavo Partezani Rodrigues; 321 WRI EMBARQ Turkey; 328 Empresa de Desarrollo Urbano, 330-331 VUPUU NPC; 332 UN Habitat.
11 Intersections: 342 Supharat Yui Laksameewanid; 345 Ezequiel Dantas; 354 SMDU – SP Urbanismo, Sao Paulo; 355 Transportation Secretariat, City Government of Buenos Aires; 357 Moritz Bernoully, Autoridad del espacio público; 359 ITDP China.


Adapted by Global Street Design Guide published by Island Press.

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