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Completing Our Streets: The Transition to Safe and Inclusive Transportation Networks

Completing Our Streets: The Transition to Safe and Inclusive Transportation Networks 112 Book reviews ating planning options for sustainable outcomes. He is also interested in planning for energy, large-scale regional planning, the impact of tourism, and the study of sustainability pedagogy. His research focuses on the local and international, and he has taught courses or given guest lectures in more than ten countries. Completing Our Streets: The Transition to Safe and Inclusive Transportation Networks, Barbara McCann, (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013), Pp. 206, $28.00 (Paperback) Barbara McCann’s purpose in writing Completing Our Streets: The Transition to Safe and Inclusive Transportation Networks was no less than to thoroughly change trans- portation planning practices in the United States. She takes it as given that business as usual for the past 60 years has made it difficult and unsafe to travel in most North American cities and towns without a car and that “compact com- munities with transportation choices create healthier, more vibrant, and more sus- tainable communities” (xiii) in which complete streets are an important element. This is first and foremost a book about practice and engagement, so instead of reviewing the theories and evidence that support these propositions, she refers instead to an extensive selected bibliography. Her previous work and that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Urban Technology Taylor & Francis

Completing Our Streets: The Transition to Safe and Inclusive Transportation Networks

Journal of Urban Technology , Volume 23 (4): 3 – Oct 1, 2016

Completing Our Streets: The Transition to Safe and Inclusive Transportation Networks

Journal of Urban Technology , Volume 23 (4): 3 – Oct 1, 2016

Abstract

112 Book reviews ating planning options for sustainable outcomes. He is also interested in planning for energy, large-scale regional planning, the impact of tourism, and the study of sustainability pedagogy. His research focuses on the local and international, and he has taught courses or given guest lectures in more than ten countries. Completing Our Streets: The Transition to Safe and Inclusive Transportation Networks, Barbara McCann, (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013), Pp. 206, $28.00 (Paperback) Barbara McCann’s purpose in writing Completing Our Streets: The Transition to Safe and Inclusive Transportation Networks was no less than to thoroughly change trans- portation planning practices in the United States. She takes it as given that business as usual for the past 60 years has made it difficult and unsafe to travel in most North American cities and towns without a car and that “compact com- munities with transportation choices create healthier, more vibrant, and more sus- tainable communities” (xiii) in which complete streets are an important element. This is first and foremost a book about practice and engagement, so instead of reviewing the theories and evidence that support these propositions, she refers instead to an extensive selected bibliography. Her previous work and that

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Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Copyright
© 2016 Bradley Flamm
ISSN
1466-1853
eISSN
1063-0732
DOI
10.1080/10630732.2016.1260303
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Abstract

112 Book reviews ating planning options for sustainable outcomes. He is also interested in planning for energy, large-scale regional planning, the impact of tourism, and the study of sustainability pedagogy. His research focuses on the local and international, and he has taught courses or given guest lectures in more than ten countries. Completing Our Streets: The Transition to Safe and Inclusive Transportation Networks, Barbara McCann, (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013), Pp. 206, $28.00 (Paperback) Barbara McCann’s purpose in writing Completing Our Streets: The Transition to Safe and Inclusive Transportation Networks was no less than to thoroughly change trans- portation planning practices in the United States. She takes it as given that business as usual for the past 60 years has made it difficult and unsafe to travel in most North American cities and towns without a car and that “compact com- munities with transportation choices create healthier, more vibrant, and more sus- tainable communities” (xiii) in which complete streets are an important element. This is first and foremost a book about practice and engagement, so instead of reviewing the theories and evidence that support these propositions, she refers instead to an extensive selected bibliography. Her previous work and that

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Journal of Urban TechnologyTaylor & Francis

Published: Oct 1, 2016

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