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Janette sadik khan book6/30/2023 Surprisingly, at the end of my presentation no one screamed that I was possessed by the devil, hell-bent on destroying everything good in the world. In most cases, the streets that had been transformed saw more business. To make my case, I referenced a report that Sadik-Khan’s New York City Department of Transportation put together using tax receipt data to compare streets that had added bike lanes and pedestrian plazas and reduced speeding by better coordinating the space dedicated to cars. I was talking about the Better Broadway project that will open one auto lane of Broadway up for businesses and people for one week next month. Last week, I presented to a group of business leaders in the Lloyd District, most of whom commute by car from the suburbs. She writes “streets are the social, political, and commercial arteries of cities … These are the spaces where life and history happen.” Janette Sadik-Khan’s “Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution” is a necessary chronicle and persuasive argument for giving street space back to people. How these spaces are designed have profound impacts on how we think about communities and the policies we create. Our streets make up the vast majority of our public space in cities. A specter is haunting our cities - the specter of street life!
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