Residential street design

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WRT is a national collaborative practice of city and regional planners, urban designers, landscape architects, and architects headquartered in Philadelphia.

Curb extensions visually and physically narrow the roadway, creating safer and shorter crossings for pedestrians while increasing the available space for street furniture, benches, plantings, and street trees. They may be implemented on downtown, neighborhood, and residential streets, large and small. Curb extensions have multiple applications and may be segmented into various sub-categories, ranging from…

Broad historic boulevards and parkways often function as high-speed thoroughfares, even though their adjacent land uses may be primarily residential in nature. In many cases, these streets have excess width, underutilized on-street parking, and too many travel lanes. Retrofit residential boulevards by expanding or activating the median, adding curbside or left-side bike lanes, and curb…

The Urban Street Stormwater Guide begins from the principle that street design can support—or degrade—the urban area’s overall environmental health.