CONTEXT SENSITIVE SOLUTIONS IN DESIGNING MAJOR URBAN THOROUGHFARES FOR WALKABLE COMMUNITIES: AN ITE PROPOSED RECOMMENDED PRACTICE

摘要

In 2003, a group of transportation professionals, planners, architects and urban designers took on an exciting yet challenging assignment—to develop national guidance for context sensitive solutions (CSS) in the design of major urban thoroughfares for walkable communities. The joint effort by the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and the Congress for the New Urbanism is sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Offices of Infrastructure and Planning, Environment and Realty and by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation Development.