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Mental Speed Bump
A mental speed bump is a concept developed by David Engwicht. Engwicht claims that the best way to reclaim streets for pedestrian use, to make them livable streets , is to overcome the psychological motivators that made communities retreat from their streets in the first place. By this, he means, people need to go out and play and socialize in their streets and their mere presence will slow down traffic far better than a speed bump would. Much like Hans Monderman and his theory of shared space , Engwicht describes streets that accommodate everyone’s needs when it is the respect of others that is obeyed above all else and not street signals that determine this relationship.
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ALSO ON THE LIVABLE STREETS NETWORK
- "Traffic: A Social Problem Not A Design Problem." StreetsBlog. November 9, 2006
- "Lounging and Lollygaging in Wodonga." StreetsFilms. March 25, 2008.
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[1] Mental Speed Bumps website.
[2] "Mental Speed Bumps." Project for Public Spaces.
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