ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the meaning of resilience in the context of street and open space planning. The chapter finds that current transportation and water management practices are constrained by bureaucratic structures that limit innovation and result in privileging status quo practices over more resilient alternatives. The administrative and technical features of the current systems are brought forward to help highlight key barriers to more resilient theory and practice. The chapter proposes a new set of management metrics to help measure what matters in the transportation sector. These include a focus on advancing Vision Zero goals, decreasing vehicle miles traveled, increasing active transportation and transit, and promotion of spatial efficiency as emerging metrics. The movement towards measuring the safety, climate, active transportation and transit, and spatial efficiency of differing modes creates a platform for rethinking the role of streets in creating resilient, low-carbon communities and opens up potential space for additional green and blue infrastructure. Rethinking street space offers an opportunity to tie climate mitigation and climate adaptation together to accomplish multiple community goals. This type of new thinking is at the core of adaptation urbanism.
