This volume explores the evolving potential of the most ubiquitous public
space in our cities. It offers ideas, tactics and strategies on how our streets
can be recast, repurposed and redesigned towards greater resilience and
resourcefulness. Authored by a variety of individuals – from citizen activists
to photographers, artists to urban designers, sociologists to engineers,
professors to practitioners – it embraces the pluralism surrounding the
notion of who our streets are for, who in turn shapes them, by what means,
and to what ends.
This book reveals why the pointers to our future will not emerge exclusively
from affluent nations, or less developed societies alone. In turn, it shows
how citizens from all walks of life, individually and collectively, can chart
multifaceted paths towards a more inclusive, sustainable and healthier urban
future.
Urban Designer & City Planner
Los Angeles, USA
Vinayak Bharne, AICP, is an urban designer and city planner whose 25-year career spans practice, research, education and advocacy. His work includes projects across the United States, Canada, India, Australia, China, the United Arab Emirates, Panama, Kenya and Mauritius.
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