The December 2013 issue of ITE Journal featured an article investigating the myriad factors that govern the DNA of city streets, looking at conventional design practices and parameters through the lens of the National Association of City Transportation Officials’ (NACTO) recently released Urban Street Design Guide, a blueprint for world-class street design.

The product of an unprecedented collaboration between city engineers, planners, and designers in the nation’s largest cities, the Urban Street Design Guide sets forth an ambitious and concrete vision for city streets, compiling a resource that some are already calling a new “Green Book for cities.”

For more, see Changing the DNA of City Streets: NACTO’s Urban Street Design Guide and the New City Street Design Paradigm