Media Gallery
External videos, podcasts, and articles related to Commonway System content: real examples, explainers, interviews, and news coverage from outside the guidebook. Each item's blurb explains how it relates to CS content, not a neutral summary of the item itself, and its endorsement label says whether CS agrees with it, includes it for background only, or includes it as a counterexample.
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AlignedThe Dutch Solution for Safer Sidewalks - Continuous Sidewalks
Not Just BikesShows the same sidewalk-continuity concept behind Continuous Sidewalk / Raised Junction in practice: the roadway rises to meet the sidewalk at a crossing, rather than the sidewalk dropping to meet the road, so geometry itself signals the priority shift.
AlignedThe Reason Our Streets Switched to Cul-De-Sacs
City BeautifulTraces the postwar shift from connected grid networks to tree-shaped cul-de-sac subdivisions, then covers the same shared-use-path connector strategy CS's Network Reconnection retrofit recommends for stitching disconnected cul-de-sacs back into the surrounding network.
AlignedWhy do so many U.S. cities have gridded streets?
City BeautifulTraces how the grid became the default American street pattern, from William Penn's Philadelphia through Jefferson's Midwest land ordinances, historical background for why the Grid network topology pattern is so dominant in U.S. contexts.
AlignedAre Streets Too Complicated Now?
City BeautifulAsks whether today's proliferation of lines, signals, and lane types on streets is overcomplication or a needed response to modern demands, a question that runs directly through CS's Element-scale catalog and the density-tiered Corridor retrofit paths this video is tagged to.
AlignedDutch-style intersection design: bike-friendly
BicycleDutchShows the protected-intersection design vocabulary, continuous cycle tracks, corner refuge islands, separated signal phasing, that underpins CS's Protected Intersection pattern and the Corridor retrofit paths built around it.