Great Streets (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (639 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262600234 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 344 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly With its thorough chronicling of building heights, tree spacing, relative widths of streets, sidewalks and cartways, this book will undoubtedly serve as a welcome reference tool for designers and urban planners. Finally, Jacobs analyzes those factors that make streets great: buildings of similar height, interesting facades, trees, windows that invite viewing, intersections, beginnings and endings, stopping places and, to be sure, space for leisurely walking. Other well- and lesser-known examples appear in a second section comparing types of streets--boulevards, commercial strips, small-town main streets and residential roads. But for the lay reader, it is also an oddly poetic attempt to capture the undefinable
Five Stars Tracey Morris Happy with purchase.. Walking in Thought William J. Hamilton, III This wonderful book consideres the civic street from many perspecitives and describes it with poetic attention. The author has spent days on these great streets and brings careful measurement and observation to his carefully crafted text. If everyone planning streets and highways in Am. Futon Customer said Wonderful book!. I was really very impressed with this book! It's an exceptional insight into what really makes for a pleasant, people-friendly street! I loved it so much, when I finished it, I immediately went back to the beginning and read it all over again! Really, really very good work! You will ve
These reveal much about the texture of the cities' street patterns and hence of their urban life. Which are the world's best streets, and what are the physical, designable characteristics that make them great? To answer these questions, Allan Jacobs has surveyed street users and design professionals and has studied a wide array of street types and urban spaces around the world. Jacobs's analysis of the maps adds much original data derived from them, including changes of street patterns over time. Jacobs also looks at several streets that were once very fine but are less successful today,