![]() ![]() ![]() Janette Sadik-Khan is one of the world’s foremost authorities on transportation and urban transformation. To help us better plan, please RSVP on Facebook, although it’s not required. To stay in the loop about future book club news, sign up for our Book Club mailing list. The book is available from Amazon, the Milwaukee Public Library, and bookstores everywhere. If you don’t finish the book, don’t worry. All are welcome to attend, the discussions are informal and open-ended. ![]() We will convene for discussion and a social hour on May 16th in the backroom of My Office, 763 N. Learn how she did it in her just released book on reshaping cities for people, Streetfight: A Handbook for an Urban Revolution. The end result of her tenure under Michael Bloomberg is a city that leads the nation in bicycle and pedestrian friendliness. A legend in urban planning circles, Sadik-Khan reshaped Times Square by turning Broadway into a pedestrian street and built bike lanes across the entire city. ![]() That’s due in large part to a figure described as “equal parts Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses,” former New York City transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan. NYC’s activist Transportation Commisioner Janette Sadik-Khan, and her new book, Street Fight.ĭespite the rise of ever more skyscrapers over the past ten years, New York City is a whole lot more human-scaled at street-level. ![]()
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