William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review
Abstract
Part I of this Note discusses the history of city planning in the United States, starting in the early twentieth century, as well as the rise of auto-centric cities. Part II examines how states and local governments across the United States are adopting policies called Complete Streets initiatives in order to create safer streets that accommodate pedestrians, cyclists, and public transportation users, as well as cars. Finally, Part III discusses the shortcomings of Complete Streets policies and argues that unless broader measures are taken to address failures in city and road design from a systems perspective, Complete Streets initiatives cannot fully achieve their stated goals.
This abstract has been taken from the author's introduction.
Repository Citation
William J. Zurborg, Completing Streets: Improving America's "Complete Streets", 47 Wm. & Mary Env’t L. & Pol'y Rev. 467 (2023), https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol47/iss2/8
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