In Street Design, Dover and Massengale share insights on how good street
design can unlock economic value, increase happiness, improve health and
reknit neighborhoods. America is undergoing a revolution in “Complete
Streets” with over 600 jurisdictions that have adopted complete streets
as a policy. Communities are demanding beautiful streets where people
want to be, and this book is a blueprint for how to meet that demand.
Written by two accomplished architects and urban designers, this
user-friendly street design manual looks at hundreds of streets old and
new, shows us what works and what doesn't, and reveals the secrets
behind designing beautiful streets and walkable places. Massengale and
Dover know how to fix America's neighborhoods, cities, and towns: make
them walkable again. That begins with great streets where people want to
be, where they feel comfortable, safe, and charmed by their surroundings.
Street Designis the essential handbook for urban designers, civic
leaders, architects, city planners, engineers, developers, landscape
architects, and community activists; it is ideal reading for any person
who wants to make their community walkable and create memorable streets
that are not just routes to someplace else, but great places that are
destinations in themselves.
This useful and transformative guide:
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Offers instruction on how to design new streets and improve existing
ones to create more walkable cities and towns
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Shows examples of more than 150 excellent historic streets,
retrofitted streets, and new streets, and explains why they are
successful and how they were designed and created
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Highlights common street-design challenges and ways they can be
addressed through placemaking
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Includes strategies for shaping space in the public right-of-way
through correct building height to street width ratios, terminated
vistas, landscaping, and street geometry
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Features more than 500 color and black-and-white photos and 32 pages
of color plates
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Includes afterword by James Howard Kunstler, author of The Geography
of Nowhere
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Incorporates guest essays from 20 of the leading thinkers in the
field, including 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.
Publish date: January 27, 2014
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN-10:
1118066707
ISBN-13: 978-1-118-06670-6
Price: $85.00
Pages:
448 pages
Images: 547, with 53 of those in color
Cover:
Hardcover
Trim Size: 9.1 x 7.9 x 1.2 inches
Web sites: Wiley
and www.streets-book.com/
E-Book
ISBN: 978-1-118-41859-8, 416 pages, $59.99
Advance Praise for Street Design:
“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, author of The Geography of Nowhere
“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
“This book could change the way people see the streets in their towns
and cities. And it could help those towns and cities make streets for
people, rather than their cars.”
—Mayor Joe Riley, Charleston,
South Carolina
