The guiding principle of Walkable Streets is that a walkable street is the fundamental building block of a quality community. Indeed, the pedestrian is the design imperative.
Dom Nozzi is the executive director of Walkable Streets. He can be reached at dom[AT]walkablestreets.com
A Selection of Dom Nozzi’s Walkable Streets Websites and Blogs
Essential Ingredients for a Walkable, Compact Town Center
Ingredients of a Walkable Street
Measuring Walkable Urbanity
His Recommended Walkable Streets Transportation Reforms blog site
Transportation recommendations for Boulder CO, informed by his 40 years of academic and professional work in transportation, 9 years of living in Boulder, and 5 years on the Boulder Transportation Advisory Board.
His Walkable Streets Transportation Vision for Boulder CO
His Timeless, Lovable City and Neighborhood Design blog site
His most active urban design and transportation blogging site. There is a growing need for our communities and our nation to forge a dramatically new path if we expect a sustainable future rich in a rewarding quality of life. Our path for much of the past century is conventionally known as “The American Dream.” This dream has been dependent on endless low-density (and therefore community-destroying) development. This financially unsustainable development pattern forces our society into isolating travel by car. It is financially unsustainable in part because it creates development that is unable to pay for its needed services and infrastructure because it does not produce sufficient tax revenue and imposes unusually high public costs. In this sense, it is, as Charles Marohn points out, a Ponzi Scheme (see link below). It is an inherently unsustainable path that a number of analysts now fear may be leading to the end of the American empire.
Dom Nozzi’s Biography, Credentials, and Accomplishments
Quality Transportation and Urban Design Starter Kit
The Rise and Fall of Urbanism in the US (Duany in Boston, 1989)
Growth Ponzi Scheme
https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme?fbclid=IwAR2vrHPno2453uVUjNFPwDqOWVdevu6O0njbODkxXyWxswpl3fqMOHiVX4c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG1T03NuZKM&t=21s
Examples of New Urbanism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_examples_of_New_Urbanism
STROAD
Woonerf
https://www.naturespath.com/en-us/blog/woonerf-the-dutch-solution-to-city-planning/
Walking tour of Wall St AVL: https://youtu.be/KuDh3YsJcec
Reforming Our Town Center Street Design to Cope with the 2020 Pandemic
Classic, Life-Changing Books in Transportation
Arnold, Henry F. (1993). Trees in Urban Design, 2nd Edition.
Belmont, Steve (2002). Cities in Full
Downs, Anthony (1992). Stuck in Traffic
Duany, Andres, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck (2000). Suburban Nation
Durning, Alan (1996). The Car and the City
Jacobs, Jane (1961). The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Kuhn, Thomas (1962). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Kunstler, James Howard (1998). Home from Nowhere
Levine, Jonathan (2006). Zoned Out: Regulations, Markets in Transportation and Metropolitan Land Use
Newman, Paul & Jeffrey Kenworthy (1989). Cities and Automobile Dependence
Norton, Peter (2008). Fighting Traffic
Oldenburg, Ray (1991). The Great Good Place
Owen, David (2009). Green Metropolis
Putnam, Robert (2000). Bowling Alone
Shoup, Donald (2005). The High Cost of Free Parking
Tranner, Paul & Rodney Tolley (2020). Slow Cities: Conquering Our Speed Addiction for Health & Sustainability
Traffic Engineers Who Get It
Walter Kulash- Glatting, Jackson in Orlando FL. 407.843.6552 wkulash@glatting.com
Ian Lockwood-Glatting, Jackson in Orlando FL. 407.843.6552 ilockwood@glatting.com
Dan Burden-Walkable Communities, Inc. in High Springs FL 386.454.3304 (Dan is a SUPERB speaker). I would strongly recommend inviting him to speak in your community, even if you don’t hire him as a consultant. dan@walklive.org
Rick Hall-Hall Engineering in Tallahassee FL. 850.222.2277 rickhall@hpe-inc.com
Peter Swift-Swift & Associates in Longmont CO. 303.772.7052 Phswi@aol.com
Rick Chellman-White Mountain Surveying in Ossipee NH 603.539.4118 chellman@worldpath.net
GB Arrington-”TOD” expert. Parsons Brinckerhoff in Portland OR 503.274.2298.
Whit Blanton-Cities That Work in Orlando FL 407.893.8175 wblanton@CitiesThatWork.com
Patrick Siegman-Siegman & Associates in Palo Alto CA. 650.462.5915 siegman@sirius.com
Fred Dock-Barton-Ashman in Minneapolis MN. 612.332.0421 frederick_dock@parsons.com
Reid Ewing-Center for Urban Transportation Research in Tampa FL 305.355.5255 rewing@transect.org
Michael Wallwork-Alternate Street Design in Orange Park FL. 904.269.1851 wallwork@mediaone.net
Danny Pleasant-Charlotte NC dpleasant@ci.charlotte.nc.us
Michael Ronkin 541.914.1401 michaelronkin@gmail.com
Stu Sirota- Parsons Brinckerhoff in Baltimore MD 410.752.9627 stuart@tndplan.com
Wade Walker- Glatting, Jackson in Orlando FL. 407.843.6552
Todd Litman-Victoria [British Columbia] Transportation Policy Institute in Victoria BC Canada 250.360.1560 litman@vtpi.org
Road Diet bibliography
Burden, D. and P. Lagerwey. Road Diets: Fixing the Big Roads http://www.walkable.org/assets/downloads/roaddiets.pdf [improved/maintained capacity, improved safety, list of examples]
Gates, T. J., Noyce, D.A., Talada, V., & Hill, L. (2007). The safety and operational effects of “road diet” conversions in Minnesota. Washington, D.C.: Transportation Research Board. http://pubsindex.trb.org/document/view/default.asp?lbid=801948 [crashes reduced, list of examples]
Kittleson and Associates: Road Diet White Paper: http://www.ashland.or.us/Files/Road%20Diets%20White%20Paper.pdf [improved traffic flow, reduced speeding, reduced crashes, more attractive, list of examples]
Libby Thomas, Senior Associate, UNC HSRC. Road Diet Conversions: A Synthesis of Safety Research, May 2013. http://katana.hsrc.unc.edu/cms/downloads/WhitePaper_RoadDiets_PBIC.pdf [crashes reduced]
McCormick, C. York Blvd: The Economics of a Road Diet. http://la.streetsblog.org/wp-content/pdf/york_blvd_final_report_compress.pdf [congestion not worsened, economics not worsened]
Oregon Department of Transportation. Systematic Safety Measures: Road Diet http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/TRAFFIC-ROADWAY/docs/pdf/RoadDiets.pdf [improved cdns for bike/ped, reduced crashes, better environment for businesses and homes]
Oregon Department of Transportation. Talent Area Road Diet Analysis http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/REGION3/docs/OR99TMRoadDietDRAFT09-04-12.pdf [improved safety, analysis of capacity impacts of going from 4 lanes to 3]
Lane Reduction (Road diet) http://www.pedbikesafe.org/PEDSAFE/countermeasures_detail.cfm?CM_NUM=19 [improved safety, improved conditions for bikes/ped]
Rosales, J.A. Road Diet Handbook – Overview http://www.oregonite.org/2007D6/paper_review/D4_201_Rosales_paper.pdf [improved safety, improved livability, list of examples]
Tan, C. H. Going on a Road Diet https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/11septoct/05.cfm [economics improved, improved safety, improved livability, improved traffic operations, list of examples]
S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. Proven Safety Countermeasures: “Road Diet” (Roadway Reconfiguration). http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/provencountermeasures/fhwa_sa_12_013.htm [improved safety]
S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. Evaluation of Lane Reduction “Road Diet” Measures on Crashes https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/10053/10053.pdf [crashes reduced]
Welch, T. “The Conversion of Four-Lane Undivided Urban Roadways to Three-Lane Facilities.” Presented at the Transportation Research Board / Institute for Transportation Engineers Urban Street Symposium, Dallas, TX, June 28-30, 1999. http://nacto.org/docs/usdg/conversion_of_four_lane_undivided_urban_roadways.pdf [reduced crashes, traffic calming enhanced, improved emergency vehicle response times]
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_diet [reduced induced traffic, increased attentiveness, reduced crashes, reduced speeding, improved cdns for bikes/peds]
Entertainment-Related Blogs
Travel and Adventures blog site
This blog is a catalog of blogs he has written of each of his significant travels and adventures throughout the United States and the world over the course of his life. It also contains blogs about major events in his life.
Best-Ever Lists blog site
This blog contains lists of what he considers to be the best in a wide range of topics such as foods, beverages, movies, books, individuals, and words.
Dom Nozzi’s Facebook profile
Dom Nozzi’s YouTube video library
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