The urban play street : creating and operating a part-time traffic free zone. Paper prepared for the 55th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board TRB, Washington, D.C., January 1976.

A play street is created by closing the roadway to through vehicular traffic, usually for a limited period of time. The play-street has trained personnel who supervise social and recreational programs. The areas of interest relating to these traffic free zones include: problems associated with closing a residential street, prerequisites for closing a street, responsibilities of various agencies, traffic engineering investigations, traffic flow etc.