CITIZENS FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT

Neighborhoods '96 Conference


October 26, 1996 Madison, WI

Street Width and Design Workshop given by Bill Schaefer, Staff Attorney/Planner, Citizens for a Better Environment, 222 S. Hamilton Street Madison, WI 53703 (608) 251-2804

RESOURCES FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Street/Streetscape Design:

Appleyard, Donald, Livable Streets, U. of California Press, Berkeley, CA (1981).

Jacobs, Allan B., Great Streets, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (1993).

Moudon, Anne Vernez, Ed., Public Streets for Public Use, Columbia University Press, New York, N.Y. (1991).

Pedestrian-Sensitive Planning and Urban Design:

Calthorpe, Peter, The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, N.Y. (1993).

Hiss, Tony, The Experience of Place: A Completely New Way of Looking at and Dealing with our Radically Changing Cities and Countryside, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, N.Y. (1990).

Katz, Peter, The New Urbanism, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, N.Y. (1994).

Kemmis, Daniel, The Good City and the Good Life, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, MA (1995).

Langdon, Philip, A Better Place to Live, The U. of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA (1994).

Rybczynski, Witold, City Life, Scribner, New York, N.Y. (1995).

Sucher, David, City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village, City Comforts Press, Seattle, WA (1995).

U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, The National Bicycling and Walking Study: Transportation Choices for a Changing America, Publication No. FHWA-PD-94-023, 1994. See also case studies, including Numbers 19, Traffic Calming, Auto-Restricted Zones and Other Traffic Management Techniques, FHWA-PD-028, Jan. 1994, and 20, The Effects of Environmental Design on the Amount and Type of Bicycling and Walking, FHWA-PD-037, April 1993.

Washington State Energy Office, Municipal Strategies to Increase Pedestrian Travel, WSEO, 925 Plum Street SE, P.O. Box 43165, Olympia, WA 98504-3165, (206) 956-2068, 1994.