Like a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City's streets to make room for pedestrians, bikers, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change, Streetfight imparts wisdom and practical advice that other cities can follow to make their own streets safer and more vibrant.
Janette Sadik-Khan is one of the world's foremost authorities on
transportation and urban transformation. She served as New York
City's transportation commissioner from 2007 to 2013 under Mayor
Michael Bloomberg, overseeing historic changes to New York City's
streets-closing Broadway to cars in Times Square, building nearly
400 miles of bike lanes, and creating more than 60 plazas citywide.
A founding principal with Bloomberg Associates, she works with
mayors around the world to reimagine and redesign their cities. She
chairs the National Association of Transportation Officials,
implementing new people-focused street design standards that have
been adopted in 45 cities across the continent. She lives in New
York City.
Seth Solomonow is a manager with Bloomberg Associates. He was the
chief media strategist for Janette Sadik-Khan and New York City's
transportation department under Mayor Michael Bloomberg. A graduate
of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Solomonow has
written for The New York Times and his hometown newspaper, The
Staten Island Advance. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
"No one has done more in less time to rewrite the future of New
York’s streets."—Reclaim
“An inspiring read… The sort of book that should be read by every
officeholder…But it is also a read for the rest of us. Anyone whose
memory is longer than a New York minute who can remember when New
York wasn't the pedestrian and bike friendly envy of cities the
world over.”
—The Huffington Post
“Janette Sadik-Khan is like the child that Robert Moses and Jane
Jacobs never had: an urban visionary determined to reshape the
streets of New York, but with an abiding concern for the health of
neighborhoods and the safety of their residents. If you care about
the future of cities, read Streetfight.”
—Michael Bloomberg, former New York City Mayor
“Cities are where innovation, creativity and the unexpected
happens, and Janette has helped make ours, New York City, safer,
more livable and more profitable all at once. I watched these
exciting changes happen, but the really interesting part is how she
managed to implement these changes quickly and cheaply. That’s
where other cities can use this as a manual for change on issues
like health reform, education and the arts. This, then, is not just
a book about transportation.”
—David Byrne, musician, artist
“This book is an urban epic as audacious as the changes Janette
Sadik-Khan made to the map of New York City. She is a superhero for
cities and an inspiration that streets built to human scale aren’t
impossible, but merely awaiting those who dare.”
—Jan Gehl, Urbanist, architect, author
“To create safe and inclusive cities, being a visionary is not
enough. You must also be an advocate, a communicator, a doer and,
perhaps most importantly, a street fighter. Janette is that person
and this is a book that provides the proof of the possible for
citizens and their elected leaders everywhere.”
—Enrique Peñalosa, Mayor of Bogota
"Sadik-Khan's work will serve as a guidebook to city planners and
traffic engineers everywhere, and motivate disenchanted urban
dwellers to urge local politicians to make their cities more
liveable."
—Booklist
“[A] bicycle visionary.”
—Frank Bruni, The New York Times
“Sadik-Khan manages to be equal parts Jane Jacobs and Robert
Moses.”
—New York Magazine
“If [Robert] Moses had owned a pink fingernail of [Sadik-Khan’s]
beguilement, he might have scored a bridge across the
Atlantic.”
—Esquire
“[Sadik-Khan is] an urban visionary who cuts through the
gridlock.”
—Slate
“This is a feel-great read for those of us who love cities,
especially as pedestrians and bicyclists. Along with local efforts,
the book contains wonderful examples of national and global
reclamation projects. The good news comes in daily as examples of
successful street rebalancing projects continue to mount from all
over the world, and advocacy groups that push for these changes
grow and strengthen. . . . Fortunately for all of us, [Sadik-Khan]
was wildly successful.”
—UrbDeZine San Francisco
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