Transportation
'Desire Lines' and the Fundamental Failure of Traffic Engineering
Mikael Colville-Andersen makes the cases for designing cities with people in mind.
What if we designed cities for pedestrians and people on bicycles rather than engineering them for people in cars? What if a bike lane were as easy and intuitive to use as a chair, for instance, or a toothbrush, or a smartphone?
Those are the questions raised by Mikael Colville-Andersen, the Danish “urban mobility expert” and founder of the Copenhagenize blog.