CNU 22: Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns

Written by Victor Dover and John Massengale, two accomplished new urban architects and urban designers, the recently-released book Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns is a user-friendly street design manual that explains both how to design new streets and enhance existing ones. It offers step-by-step instruction and shares examples of excellent streets, examining the elements that make them successful as well as how they were designed and created.
In this session, Victor Dover and John Massengale share the catalyst behind writing this comprehensive memoir of streets. Topics also include strategies for shaping space in the public right-of-way through correct building height to street width ratios, terminated vistas, landscaping, and street geometry. These two new urbanists and their resulting accomplishments are valuable resources for urban designers, planners, architects, and engineers.

[@robertbaron6377]

The 8:40 marker discussion of the shared bike-bus lanes of Paris. these suck for bicycling as it is terrifying to have a bus or taxi bearing down on you.

[@streetdesignthesecrettogre6558]

Yes, those are ONLY for the Macho MAMLs who like mixing it up in traffic.

[@WAJK2030]

I´ll buy their Book. Good Job!

[@djpiecia]

36:54 Bike line in the middle of the street ? WTF ?
49:27 why they wear helmet like soldiers on the war ?

[@zephc]

Great video. I think one of the things that confuses me the most in the New Urbanist thought is one-way streets. I agree they rightly denounce one-way streets that are 2+ lanes, since they are basically race tracks and hostile anything other than cars, but suburban Japan has countless one-way *single lane* streets which are very slow, and very porous.
A typically layout has the property line and some sort of gating or visual barrier right up to the ROW, about 10 ft of street, then the next property.
Cars there are typically smaller but still go down them very slowly. They also won't really put a discrete bike lane or sidewalk along the street, and instead cars naturally slow for bikes and pedestrians, or bikes/pedestrians move aside for cars. I think this is a pattern that needs to be used more in north america, not less (obviously this is more for new developments, not so much retrofits)

[@justinleemiller]

Can these guys talk to Elon Musk? He’s convinced you can fix mobility with digging tunnels for cars