After more than 50 years of catering to the motorized traveler, North American transport
planners are pursuing a more modally balanced approach to street design. Their new approach is supported by focusing on multilayered network design, richly textured street designs and a
context sensitive approach to planning.
As rapidly growing cities in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world develop and tune their transport infrastructure it’s possible to imagine how the new North American Complete Streets approach might be applied to build more useful streets for the world’s fastest growing cities.
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