News Summary

• This is a book about the amenity that we call streets and how we choose to use them to move about.
• What makes the street so vitally important today is that it has the capacity to allow for many different modalities of travel to coexist in the public space.
• Glideology, an invented word, is meant to evoke memories of gliding downhill on your bicycle as a child or sledding down a hill in the winter.
• It anticipates that common-sense will take hold and urban public space will be improved to focus on the many different reasons that one travels.