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How do you create streets that are walkable and bikeable, part of lively downtowns and neighborhoods? Planners and city officials need to take a careful look at how people actually travel in their communities and use public spaces. That is the guiding insight of what amounted to a revolution in the field of urban planning that began building momentum in the 1950s....

The San Diego Freeway is not a complete street. The New Jersey Turnpike is not a complete street. Neither is the Holland Tunnel, the Daytona Speedway, the drive-through at McDonald’s, or the golf cart path at the country club. The six runways at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport: not complete streets. ...