Urban design: Why don't we do it in the road? Modifying traffic behavior through legible urban design

The paper reflects on how the relationship between traffic, people, and places could be planned set on principles to define the relationship of traffic engineering and urban design to offer possibilities for reconciling the competing and conflicting demands for safe, efficient movement with the quality and legibility of built environment. Provided are two sources for this inspiration: the long history of Dutch, Danish, and Swedish experimentation and practice in new approaches to traffic management and street design; and, the lack of integration between traffic engineers with the architects, urban planners, urban designers, landscape architects, civil and structural engineers and other members of the design profession in major urban design schools. The paper argues that it would be an good idea to bring traffic engineering and urban design together to accentuate the particular qualities of place, and thus create safe, legible cities.