Prologue : Why Does the Next Step Change?
Part 1. A Route for Passing Quickly Differs from a Street for Lingering
1. Is a Road That Works Well for Cars Also Good for People?
2. Some Streets Make Walking Unappealing Even with Wide Sidewalks
3. Streets Full of People and Streets Full of Cars Have Different Faces
4. What Makes a Street Inviting Even Without a Destination?
Part 2. Where Do People Slow Their Steps?
5. What Makes People Slow Their Steps?
6. Why Do We Keep Looking at the Ground Floor?
7. A Single Crossing Can Interrupt or Connect the Flow of a Street
8. What Makes a Street Inviting to Walk Even in Midsummer?
Part 3. Whom Should Streets Make Room For?
9. Streets Convenient for Cars and Streets Convenient for People
10. How Does Cycling Change the Order of a Street?
11. What Makes a Street Comfortable for Children and Older People to Walk Along?
12. Do Shopkeepers and Residents Want the Same Street?
Part 4. A Street’s Main Users Change with the Time of Day
13. A Route at Commuting Time, a Place During the Day
14. One Lunch Hour Awakens a Commercial District
15. Streets That Come Alive Only at Night
16. Closing a Street to Cars Does Not Always Make It a Good Pedestrian Street
Part 5. Looking across Inviting Streets Again
17. What Emerged When We Read the World’s Streets Together?
18. The Clash between Routes for Moving Quickly and Streets for Staying Longer
19. Streets Loved Despite Defying Urban Planning’s Conventional Wisdom
20. Is Time Spent Moving Also Part of Urban Life?
Epilogue : What Inviting Streets Leave Behind