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Urban Street Stormwater Guide: Nacto

This document summarizes the NACTO Urban Street Stormwater Guide, which provides technical guidance and best practices for designing green stormwater infrastructure along transportation corridors. It assists agencies and practitioners in meeting goals of safety, accessibility, sustainability, and mobility. The guide recognizes streets represent over 80% of public space but are often designed primarily for vehicles, contributing to stormwater issues. It presents an approach where street design supports environmental health by incorporating green infrastructure to manage stormwater while providing other benefits like street trees and greenery.

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Urban Street Stormwater Guide: Nacto

This document summarizes the NACTO Urban Street Stormwater Guide, which provides technical guidance and best practices for designing green stormwater infrastructure along transportation corridors. It assists agencies and practitioners in meeting goals of safety, accessibility, sustainability, and mobility. The guide recognizes streets represent over 80% of public space but are often designed primarily for vehicles, contributing to stormwater issues. It presents an approach where street design supports environmental health by incorporating green infrastructure to manage stormwater while providing other benefits like street trees and greenery.

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NACTO

Urban Street Stormwater Guide

▶ The latest design guide in the popular NACTO series


▶ Offers technical guidance and best practices for the design of Green
Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) along transportation corridors 
▶ Assists city agencies and practitioners to meet complementary goals
of safety, accessibility, sustainability, and mobility

Streets make up more than 80 percent of all public space in cities, yet street space is
often underutilized or disproportionately allocated to the movement of private motor
vehicles. Excess impervious surface contributes to stormwater runoff, posing a threat to
the environment and human health, and often overwhelming sewer systems. This excess
asphalt also poses a threat to public safety, encouraging faster speeds and dangerous
conditions for people walking and biking. 
1st ed. 2017, Approx. 170 p.  
This volume begins from the principle that street design can support—or degrade—
the urban area’s overall environmental health. By incorporating Green Stormwater
Infrastructure (GSI) into the right-of-way, cities can manage stormwater and reap the
public health, environmental, and aesthetic benefits of street trees, planters, and greenery
in the public realm. With thoughtful design, GSI can bolster strategies to provide a safe
and pleasant walking and biking experience, efficient and reliable transit service, and safer
streets for all users.
 
eBook Building on the successful NACTO urban street guides, this book provides the best
practices for the design of GSI along transportation corridors. The authors consider
eBook context-sensitive design elements related to street design, character and use, zoning,
posted speed, traffic volumes, and impacts to non-motorized and vehicular access. The
▶ springer.com/shop   Guide documents and synthesizes current practices being developed by individual
agencies and recommends design guidance for implementation, as well as explores
MyCopy innovative new strategies being tested in cities nationwide. The guidance will focus on
providing safe, functioning and maintainable infrastructure that meets the unique needs
Printed eBook for just and requirements of the transportation corridors and its various uses and users.
▶ € | $ 24.99  
▶ springer.com/mycopy The state-of-the-art solutions in this guide will assist urban planners and designers,
transportation engineers, city officials, ecologists, public works officials, and others
interested in the role of the built urban landscape in protecting the climate, water quality,
and natural environment.

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