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Urban street stormwater guide

National Association of City Transportation Officials.

Urban street stormwater guide

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Urban street stormwater guideby National Association of City Transportation Officials
Corporate Body:	National Association of City Transportation Officials.
Published:	Washington, DC :Island Press/Center for Resource Economics :2017.
Description:	xi, 154 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Urban runoffPlanning.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-814-5
ISBN:	9781610918145$q(electronic bk.)

Urban street stormwater guide
National Association of City Transportation Officials.

Urban street stormwater guide[electronic resource] /by National Association of City Transportation Officials - Washington, DC :Island Press/Center for Resource Economics :2017. - xi, 154 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Streets make up more than 80 percent of all public space in cities, yet street space is often underutilized or disproportionately allocated to the movement of private motor vehicles. Excess impervious surface contributes to stormwater runoff, posing a threat to the environment and human health, and often overwhelming sewer systems. This excess asphalt also poses a threat to public safety, encouraging faster speeds and dangerous conditions for people walking and biking. This volume begins from the principle that street design can support--or degrade--the urban area's overall environmental health. By incorporating Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) into the right-of-way, cities can manage stormwater and reap the public health, environmental, and aesthetic benefits of street trees, planters, and greenery in the public realm. With thoughtful design, GSI can bolster strategies to provide a safe and pleasant walking and biking experience, efficient and reliable transit service, and safer streets for all users. Building on the successful NACTO urban street guides, this book provides the best practices for the design of GSI along transportation corridors. The authors consider context-sensitive design elements related to street design, character and use, zoning, posted speed, traffic volumes, and impacts to non-motorized and vehicular access. The Guide documents and synthesizes current practices being developed by individual agencies and recommends design guidance for implementation, as well as explores innovative new strategies being tested in cities nationwide. The guidance will focus on providing safe, functioning and maintainable infrastructure that meets the unique needs and requirements of the transportation corridors and its various uses and users. The state-of-the-art solutions in this guide will assist urban planners and designers, transportation engineers, city officials, ecologists, public works officials, and others interested in the role of the built urban landscape in protecting the climate, water quality, and natural environment.

ISBN: 9781610918145$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.5822/978-1-61091-814-5doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

794515
Urban runoff
--Planning.

LC Class. No.: TD657 / .N37 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 628.212

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