Pedestrian and Transit Oriented Design is not a book about design but a book about policy and process. Change doesn’t happen all at once, despite our desire, so we must make decisions about priorities and which changes happen in the first wave of upgrades and which will come later. This book helps to set those priorities by laying out three chapters with essential, highly desirable, and worthwhile but not essential design elements. As author Keith Bartholomew put it, all the elements are worth considering, but in a world of incremental change and priority setting, not all of them can be included. As planners, elected or appointed officials, or designers it’s our job to “push the cart that much up the hill and then hopefully someone will come in behind and pick up the work after that.” Meaningful change is small change. Places grow organically and are not all ready to go out of the box like Ikea furniture. Instead, find the situation and challenges of a particular place and strategize to get the best outcome you can for that situation, recognizing that no cookie cutter list will give you the answer. The best way to find answers is to look around your community for areas that are working and find ways to replicate that elsewhere though policies or programs.

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