ICMA has released a comprehensive 229-page planning and design guide, Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares: A Context-Sensitive Approach. The report was recently approved as a recommended practice of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE).
[T]his report focuses on applying the concepts and principles in the planning and design of urban thoroughfares—facilities commonly designated by the conventional functional classifications of arterials and collectors… The following chapters emphasize thoroughfares in “walkable communities”—compact, pedestrian-scaled villages, neighborhoods, town centers, urban centers, urban cores and other areas where walking, bicycling and transit are encouraged.
View the report here (pdf).
