Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow - Streetfight

Praise for Janette Sadik-Khan and Streetfight

[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-Khans] beguilement, he might have scored a bridge across the Atlantic.

Esquire

[Sadik-Khan is] an urban visionary who cuts through the gridlock.

Slate

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

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 arent impossible, but merely awaiting those who dare.

Jan Gehl, urbanist, architect, author

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. Thats 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

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 Pealosa, mayor of Bogota

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STREETFIGHT

Janette Sadik-Khan is one of the worlds foremost authorities on transportation and urban transformation. She served as New York Citys transportation commissioner from 2007 to 2013 under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, overseeing historic changes to New York Citys streetsclosing Broadway to cars in Times Square, building nearly four hundred miles of bike lanes, and creating more than sixty 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 forty-five 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 Citys 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.

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First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016

Published in Penguin Books 2017

Copyright 2016 by Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow

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Photograph and map illustration credits

Interior : From Urban Street Design Guide by NACTO. Copyright 2013 National Association of City Transportation Officials. Reproduced by permission of Island Press, Washington, DC.

Interior the City of New York. 200514. New York City Department of Transportation. All rights reserved.

Other credits appear in the captions of the respective images.

Ebook ISBN: 9780698409415

Cover design: Evan Gaffney

Cover images: (city background) Merten Snijders/Getty Images; (cyclist) Biederbick & Rumpf/F1 Online/Superstock; (businessman) Massimo Colombo/Getty Images

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