Janette Sadik-Khan is one of the world's foremost authorities on transportation and urban transformation. She served as New York City's transportation commissioner from 2007 to 2013 under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, overseeing historic changes to New York City's streets--closing Broadway to cars in Times Square, building nearly 400 miles of bike lanes, and creating more than 60 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 45 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 City's 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.
"No one has done more in less time to rewrite the future of New
York's streets."--Reclaim "An inspiring read... The sort of book
that should be read by every officeholder...But it is also a read
for the rest of us. Anyone whose memory is longer than a New York
minute who can remember when New York wasn't the pedestrian and
bike friendly envy of cities the world over."
--The Huffington Post "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
"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. That's
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
"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 aren't
impossible, but merely awaiting those who dare."
--Jan Gehl, Urbanist, architect, author
"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 Peñalosa, Mayor of Bogota "Sadik-Khan's work will serve
as a guidebook to city planners and traffic engineers everywhere,
and motivate disenchanted urban dwellers to urge local politicians
to make their cities more liveable."
--Booklist "[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-Khan's]
beguilement, he might have scored a bridge across the
Atlantic."
--Esquire
"[Sadik-Khan is] an urban visionary who cuts through the
gridlock."
--Slate "This is a feel-great read for those of us who love cities,
especially as pedestrians and bicyclists. Along with local efforts,
the book contains wonderful examples of national and global
reclamation projects. The good news comes in daily as examples of
successful street rebalancing projects continue to mount from all
over the world, and advocacy groups that push for these changes
grow and strengthen. . . . Fortunately for all of us, [Sadik-Khan]
was wildly successful."
--UrbDeZine San Francisco
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