Anarchy on wheels: It works

On traffic design:

'They're treating you like you're a complete idiot, and if people treat you like a complete idiot, you'll act like one.'

"Here was someone who had rethought a lot of issues from complete scratch. Essentially, what it means is a transfer of power and responsibility from the state to the individual and the community."

Hans Monderman has different ideas on how to control traffic: get rid of the signs. And the sidewalks

He made his first nervous foray into shared space in a small village whose residents were upset at its being used as a daily thoroughfare for 6,000 speeding cars. When he took away the signs, lights and sidewalks, people drove more carefully. Within two weeks, speeds on the road had dropped by more than half.

Radical stuff. I know I read something which seems almost the same word for word, and recently. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/22/international/europe/22monderman.html?oref=login