When design kills: The criminalization of walking

Bad design kills people.
That's right. It's not a matter of aesthetics, or of politics, or of opinion. It's a plain fact: When you design streets solely for cars, people die as a result. The underlying conditions that are responsible for those deaths are rarely or never challenged. The victims often get blamed for their own injuries or deaths.

http://www.grist.org/infrastructure/2011-07-20-when-design-kills-the-criminalization-of-walking