CSS Reading

How To Turn a Place Around. 2000, 125 pages, $30. Project for Public Spaces,
A friendly, common sense guide for everyone from community residents to mayors on how to understand and improve the public spaces in their communities.

Thinking Beyond the Pavement. 1998, 8 pages, free. Maryland State Highway Administration,
Summary of the first CSD conference, held in May of 1998, in which a working definition of context sensitive design, and the issues surrounding it were first articulated.

“The Asphalt Rebellion,” October, 1997, 6 pages. Governing Magazine,
Description of the growing national movement against traditional highway planning that damages communities.

A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, 2001, 905 pages. American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials,
Latest edition of the "Bible" of street and highway design, the AASHTO Green Book.

Flexibility in Highway Design. 1997, 193 pages, free. Federal Highway Administration,
An early attempt to demonstrate to highway engineers the inherent flexibility of the AASHTO Green Book in responding to context. An excellent introduction to highway design for the lay person.

City Routes, City Rights: Building Livable Neighborhoods and Environmental Justice by Fixing Transportation. 1998, 88 pages, $15 or downloadable free from web. Conservation Law Foundation,
A readable and well-illustrated guide to urban transportation issues and citizen rights.

Take Back Your Streets: How to Protect Communities from Asphalt and Traffic. 1995, revised 1998, ? pages, $10 or downloadable from Web. Conservation Law Foundation, .
An excellent citizens' guide to traffic calming.

Getting Back to Place: Using Streets to Rebuild Communities. 1998, 78 pages, $35. Project for Public Places,

Getting To Work: An Organizer's Guide to Transportation Equity. 1998, 112 pages, $5. Center for Community Change,
The 1998 TEA 21 federal transportation act provides both resources and organizing handles designed to improve transportation in low income communities. This book explains the law and how to organize around transportation issues. It includes many examples of successful local organizing.

Getting it Right in the Right-of-Way: Citizen Participation in Context-Sensitive Highway Design. 2000, 24 pages, $5. Scenic America,
How to partner with your state DOT in designing context-sensitive highways.

"Ten Ways To Win with Your State DOT". by Ian Lockwood in Planning, October, 2001, 2 pages.
How to negotiate with your state department of transportation to get great streets.

When Main Street Is A State Highway. 2001, 60 pages, free, downloadable from Web. Maryland State Highway Administration,
A citizens' guide to working with the Maryland State Highway Administration staff on Neighborhood Conservation Program projects. This new approach grew out of SHA's commitment to Maryland's Smart Growth program and its basic tenets of investing our money to support established communities and prevent sprawl development.