David Engwicht

David Engwicht

{

David Engwicht (born 1950) is a social innovator and a significant international leader of efforts to reduce the negative impacts of motor vehicle traffic on cities and towns. He is a proponent of shared space schemes. He is considered one of the fathers of traffic calming and claims to be the inventor of the Walking bus, Street reclamation, and the Universal Anchoring Device. He is author of several books including three broadly available books Reclaiming our Cities and Towns: Better Living through Less Traffic (1993), Street Reclaiming: Creating Livable Streets and Vibrant Communities (1999), and Mental Speed Bumps: The smarter way to tame traffic (2005).

Engwicht (pronounced eng-wich) became involved in traffic control from completely outside the fields of transportation planning and engineering. His writings on the social and economic value of cities are lucid and well-referenced. His writing can be seen as describing a major dilemma of technics-out-of-control in the second half of the 20th century. His newer writings and his workshops are rich with ideas and inspirations for communities to reclaim control over an abandoned public realm.

A resident of Brisbane, Australia, Engwicht lectures worldwide on transportation, community, and creativity.

See also

External links

  • LessTraffic.com Engwicht Communications website, run by David.
  • Creative Communities International An Australian based organisation dedicated to promoting social innovations.
  • Carbuster's Magazine which has a profile of David in Issue #37 (he is also mentioned in previous issues)
  • [1] contains a downloads page where an audiobook featuring talks by David Engwicht can be accessed for free.

Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Dave Andrews — For other people named David Andrews, see David Andrews (disambiguation). Dave Andrews Born 20 May 1951 (1951 05 20) (age 60) England Occupation writer, speaker, activist Nationality Australian …   Wikipedia

  • Segregated cycle facilities — A bike lane on the side of a highway. Utrecht has specially painted …   Wikipedia

  • Shared space — New Road, Brighton shared space scheme. Shared space is an urban design concept aimed at integrated use of public spaces. It encourages traffic engineers, urban planners and experts from other fields to consult with users of public space when… …   Wikipedia

  • Общее пространство — Нью роуд, улица Брайтона  эксперимент по «общему пространству» Общее пространство ( …   Википедия

  • Placemaking — is a term that began to be used in the 1970s by architects and planners to describe the process of creating squares, plazas, parks, streets and waterfronts that will attract people because they are pleasurable or interesting. Landscape often… …   Wikipedia

  • Anarchism in India — In India, anarchism never took the form of formally named anarchism .Adams, Jason. [http://raforum.info/article.php3?id article=3225 lang=en Non Western Anarchisms: Rethinking the Global Context] Zalabaza Books, Johannesburg, South Africa.] The… …   Wikipedia

  • Slowth — is a transport planning concept, usually deployed in congested urban environments, where transport is calibrated for lower top speeds, but the result is shorter overall travel times across the entire system.cite news |first=Manisha |last=Gutman… …   Wikipedia

  • Fete de rue — Fête de rue Un rassemblement lors d une Street Block Party à Madison, Wisconsin. Une fête de rue ou libération des rues [1] …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Fête De Rue — Un rassemblement lors d une Street Block Party à Madison, Wisconsin. Une fête de rue ou libération des rues [1] …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Fête de rue — Un rassemblement lors d une Street Block Party à Madison, Wisconsin. Une fête de rue ou libération des rues [1] …   Wikipédia en Français

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”