Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns Author: Victor Dover | Language: English | ISBN:
B00HN5H8LO | Format: PDF
Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns Description
"The best streets in the world's villages, towns, and cities—whether modest or grand—continually remind one that simplicity is part of the recipe for success in this art. The advice of Victor Dover and John Massengale, their historic examples and their own designs, reflect that simplicity."
—From the Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales
“Street Design is a lucid, practical and altogether indispensable guide for envisioning and creating vibrant 21st century towns and cities. It should be required reading for every local political leader, planner, architect, real estate developer and engaged urban citizen in America."
—Kurt Andersen, host of Studio 360 and author of True Believers
"We are going to start walking around the places we live again, and as that occurs and becomes normal, we will rapidly redevelop a demand for higher quality in building at the human scale."
—From the Afterword by James Howard Kunstler
“Your charrette traveling library must include the important Street Design book by Victor Dover and John Massengale.”—Bill Lennertz, Executive Director, National Charrette Institute
“What an amazing resource! For those who wish that my book, Walkable City, had pictures, this is the book for you. If either your work or your play includes the making of places, you will find Street Design to be an invaluable tool.” —Jeff Speck, AICP, CNU-A, LEED-AP, Hon. ASLA
Written by two accomplished architects and urban designers, this user-friendly street design manual shows both how to design new streets and enhance existing ones. It offers step-by-step instruction and shares examples of excellent streets, examining the elements that make them successful as well as how they were designed and created. Topics also include strategies for shaping space in the public right-of-way through correct building height to street width ratios, terminated vistas, landscaping, and street geometry. This book is a valuable resource for urban designers, planners, architects, and engineers.
With guest essays from: Kaid Benfield, David Brussat, Javier Cenicacelaya, Hank Dittmar, Andres Duany, Douglas Duany, Emily Glavey, Chip Kaufman, Ethan Kent, Marieanne Khoury-Vogt, Léon Krier, Gianni Longo, Thomas Low, Laura Lyon, Chuck Marohn, Paul Murrain, John Norquist, Stefanos Polyzoides, Gabriele Tagliaventi and Erik Vogt.
- File Size: 44056 KB
- Print Length: 448 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (December 31, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00HN5H8LO
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #357,338 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Arts & Photography > Architecture > Landscape - #73
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Arts & Photography > Architecture > Urban & Land Use Planning - #90
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I highly endorse and recommend the book! It is one of the best books I have gotten my hands on for people that care or should care about creating Thriving Communities for People and Prosperity. This book should be used in every local jurisdiction and university across the nation and globe. We no longer have to teach our college graduates about highway design but rather now we need to focus on community design. This would be a fun curriculum to teach...and our young engineers, planners, policy makers, and leaders need this information to be competitive and influential. It could be used in transportation, civil engineering, planning, ecology, landscape, and architecture programs as we all play a part in the interwoven web of creating quality communities where people and businesses can thrive. Unlike highway engineers that "build transportation through communities" this book talks to those of us that want to "build communities through transportation". We need to bring the ART and CULTURE back into and balance the science of street design. After all a street without people is not a place. A place needs people. And people need to be welcomed, inspired, and entertained. Our standards, transportation models, and level of service analysis only address the science of the innate automobile and completely forget about the ART required to create a place where people are welcomed, inspired, and entertained.
And more importantly local, state and federal officials could definitely use this book to better understand the impacts of their ongoing transportation decisions and funding practices based on assumptions from the post World War II era when decisions were based on what was good for General Motors was good for the United States.
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