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Title: 10 principles for livable transportation
Post by: BRE SALAM SONY on July 08, 2010, 05:02:53 PM

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Last week, the Institute of Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) released Our Cities Ourselves: 10 Principles for Transport in Urban Life, a publication explicating “ten keys to building successful cities” and “show[ing] how cities from New York to Nairobi can meet the challenges of rapid population growth and climate change while improving their competitiveness.”

1. Walk the walk: Create great pedestrian environments.

2. Powered by people: Create a great environment for bicycles and other non-motorized vehicles.

3. Get on the bus: Provide great, cost-effective public transport.Amsterdam (by: Bill Barber, creative commons license)

4. Cruise control: Provide access for clean passenger vehicles at safe speeds and in significantly reduced numbers.

5. Deliver the goods: Service the city in the cleanest and safest manner.

6. Mix it up: Mix people and activities, buildings and spaces.

7. Fill it in: Build dense, people and transit oriented urban districts that are desirable.

8. Get real: Preserve and enhance the local, natural, cultural, social and historical assets.

9. Connect the blocks: Make walking trips more direct, interesting and productive with small-size, permeable buildings and blocks.

10. Make it last: Build for the long term. Sustainable cities bridge generations. They are memorable, malleable, built from quality materials, and well maintained.