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John Norquist: Emergency Response and Street Design Initiative
Submitted by abanks on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 12:20am.Description: John Norquist, CNU's President and CEO outlines the importance of narrower, interconnected street networks, and how connectivity, ranging from the regional scale to the local neighborhood, block and street scale is contrary to common thought, critical to reducing emergency response... read more »
From Policy To Technique: Complete Streets: Street Design and Multimodalism
Submitted by logannash on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 6:43pm.Description: Hear the national perspective on Complete Streets policies, with a focus on leading-edge implementation strategies from the communities of Boulder and Colorado Springs. Following the presentations, a moderated panel discussion will explore the nuances of design and level of service... read more »
Emergency Response & Street Design: Oct. 4, 2008, Working Group Meeting
Submitted by Jon Davis on Fri, 11/14/2008 - 10:13pm.Description: These presentations were made at the Emergency Response & Street Design Initiative's working group that met in Denver, Colo. They helped form the Initiative's approach to developing code language for submission to the International Code Council in 2009.
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Smart Growth Streets/Emergency Responders April 2008 Workshop
Submitted by Jon Davis on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 6:10pm.Description: Two dozen engineers, fire marshals and planners gathered in Austin, Texas, on April 1 and 2, 2008, for the first workshop of a multi-year CNU project funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to find street design solutions encompassing both narrow (or smart growth) street... read more »
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Putting Out the Fire on Street Design
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Thu, 04/19/2007 - 9:41pm.Description: To a New Urbanist, narrowing streets and creating pedestrian
friendly environments can help calm auto traffic, save
lives, and reduce injuries. To an emergency responder narrow
streets and other traffic calming devices may slow
response times and impede operations. This session con... read more »
Shared Space-Reconciling People, Places and Traffic
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Thu, 04/12/2007 - 9:06pm.Description: For several generations, the spaces between buildings have
been dominated by the requirements of traffic engineering,
with its language of signs, traffic signals, bollards, barriers,
curbs, and road markings. As a result there has been little
opportunity to express community values... read more »
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Reviving Boulevards and Avenues as Major Thoroughfares
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Tue, 04/10/2007 - 5:43pm.Description: Presentation describing complete streetscapes, and context sensitive solutions in street design. Contains case studies from numerous cities nationwide with data to support complete streets equipped with walkable sidewalks, bike lanes, public transit options, street trees, landscap... read more »
CNU XI Program
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Tue, 04/10/2007 - 4:52pm.Description: CNU XI (Washington, D.C., 2003) offered a chance for members to focus on districts and corridors. Corridors in Washington include the boulevard system, the waterfront, and a number of mass transportation corridors. A well-received session entitled "Boulevards and Beyond" focused on... read more »
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