This week in Complete Streets -- the dessert portion of the course -- we're learning how to (and not to) apply safe street design principles from other cultures to the US transportation context.
First up, the brilliant Carlos Pardo will be zooming in to talk about how to learn from temporary infrastructure and get more people involved in street design, and to spark some ideas for reconfiguring one of our own (disastrous) streets (1/3).
Finally, we'll wrap the course with a group discussion on the future of #CompleteStreets. What concepts can we take away from the course and apply right away? Which ones need seismic cultural shifts to be successful? How will we work to make sure those shifts happen...and to make sure they work for everyone?
@DrTCombs nice! I did a bit about this using a before and after in Vienna to talk through alternatives to zoning for cars. Not everywhere needs to be zoned for cars
Next, we'll study the theories behind many of the most famous 'sustainable safety' street designs from Europe, and discuss why we can't just replicate their physical elements -- we also have to understand their design contexts and fembrace the human-focused philosophies that underpin them if we hope to achieve the same results.
(h/t to our former colleague Mary Elbech for the content and concepts). (2/3)