Street Design : The Secret to Great Cities and Towns.
Title:
Street Design : The Secret to Great Cities and Towns.
Author:
Dover, Victor.
ISBN:
9781118418598
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (450 pages)
Contents:
Street Design -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER One Introduction -- The Traditional Street -- THE GRID -- The Formal, the Picturesque, and the Hybrid -- The Formal -- The Picturesque -- The Hybrid -- East 70th Street: A Beautiful New York Block -- The Lot and the Block -- A Brave New World -- Functional Classification -- Contemporary Challenges to Placemaking -- Work of Many Hands -- Walkability -- Principles of Walkability -- Shaped -- Comfortable -- Safe -- Connected -- Interesting, Memorable -- Placemaking's Potential for Return on Investment -- Two Case Studies -- Complete Streets and the Environment -- Environmental Benefits of Complete Streets/Emily Glavey -- Green Streets -- Notes -- CHAPTER Two Historic Streets -- Beyond Functional Classification: A Reintroduction to Eleven Essential Street Types -- Avenues & Boulevards -- Multiway Avenues & Boulevards -- Avenue Montaigne, Paris, France -- Avenue d'Iena: The Most Beautiful Parking Lot Isn't a Parking Lot . . . it's a street -- Avenue d'lena, Paris, France -- Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, Barcelona, Spain -- Passeig de Gràcia, Barcelona, Spain -- Avinguda Diagonal, Barcelona, Spain -- Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York -- Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York -- Avenues & Boulevards -- Park Avenue, New York, New York -- Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia -- Queens Road West, Charlotte, North Carolina -- Promenades & Ramblas -- Promenade Streets -- The RAMBLA TYPE/Stefanos Polyzoides -- LES RAMBLES, BARCELONA, SPAIN/Stefanos Polyzoides -- Promenade Street -- RAMBLA CATALUNYA, BARCELONA, SPAIN/Stefanos Polyzoides -- PASEO DEL PRADO, HAVANA, CUBA/Andrés Duany -- Boulevard de Rochechouart, Paris, France -- Commonwealth Avenue, in Boston and Newton, Massachusetts -- Main Streets -- Main Street, Nantucket, Massachusetts -- Main Street, Galena, Illinois.
ORVIETO, ITALY/Douglas Duany -- Quinta Avenida, La Antigua, Guatemala -- GINZA DORI, TOKYO, JAPAN/Gianni Longo -- Regent Street, London, Great Britain -- Downtown Streets -- Railroad Street, Great Barrington, Massachusetts -- Aviles Street, St. Augustine, Florida -- Formosa Street, London, Great Britain -- TWEEDE TUINDWARSSTRAAT, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS /Ethan Kent -- Neighborhood Streets -- Sidney Place, Brooklyn, New York -- Alta Vista Terrace, Chicago, Illinois -- BENEFIT STREET, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND/David Brussat -- CANYON ROAD, SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO/Stefanos Polyzoides and John Massengale -- Santa Maria Street, Coral Gables, Florida -- La Alameda de Santa Rosa, Antigua, Guatemala -- Pedestrian Passages and Step Streets -- The Ninety-Nine Steps, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands -- Longitude Lane, Charleston, South Carolina -- Parkways -- Notes -- CHAPTER Three Street Systems and Networks -- The Streets of Charleston and Savannah -- Architecture in Charleston and Savannah -- Civic Art and Street Design in Charleston -- Civic Art in the Plan of Savannah -- Bull Street and Broughton Street -- Rue de Rivoli and Rue de Castiglione, Paris, France/Javier Cenicacelaya -- Rue de Rivoli -- Rue de Castiglione -- The Arcades of Bologna/Gabriele Tagliaventi -- Seven Dials, London, England/Hank Dittmar -- Big Boulevards and Tiny Laneways in Melbourne, Australia/Chip Kaufman -- Corridor Transformations in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia -- The Cap at Union Station, Columbus, Ohio -- FREEWAY TEARDOWNS/John Norquist -- Rethinking Freeways -- The Spui, Amsterdam, the Netherlands -- Notes -- CHAPTER Four Retrofitted Streets -- Avenues & Boulevards -- Dexter Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama -- Lancaster Boulevard, Lancaster, California/Kaid Benfield -- Fairfax Boulevard, Fairfax, Virginia -- Boundary Street, Beaufort, South Carolina.
Mesa Street, El Paso, Texas -- Main Streets -- Kensington High Street, London, England -- Applying the K.I.S.S. Rule (Keep It Simple, Stupid) -- Worth Avenue and Hibiscus Place, Palm Beach, Florida -- Park Avenue, Winter Park, Florida -- Columbia Pike, Arlington, Virginia -- Main Street, Great Barrington, Massachusetts -- Stone Avenue, Greenville, South Carolina -- Downtown Streets -- Madison Square, New York, New York -- Giralda Avenue, Coral Gables, Florida -- Dorn Avenue, South Miami, Florida -- Promenades -- Yorkville Promenade (Second Avenue), New York, New York -- Pedestrian and Shared Space -- Exhibition Road, London, England -- Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, Florida -- Española Way, Miami Beach, Florida -- The Alley, Montgomery, Alabama -- Stone Street, New York, New York -- Winslow Homer Walk, New York, New York -- Notes -- CHAPTER Five New Streets -- Main Streets -- Main Street, Rosemary Beach, Florida -- Northgate Street, El Paso, Texas -- Central Brandevoort, the Netherlands/Paul Murrain -- Longmoor Street, Poundbury, England/Léon Krier -- Market Street, Habersham, Beaufort, South Caro lina/Thomas Low -- Neighborhood Streets -- Grace Park Way, Habersham, Beaufort, South Carolina -- Crystal Lake Drive, Hammond's Ferry, North Augusta, South Carolina -- Newpoint Road, Newpoint, Lady's Island, South Carolina -- Bartram Street & Brasfield Square, Glenwood Park, Atlanta, Georgia -- Galt House Drive, The New Town at St. Charles, Missouri/Laura Lyon -- Tupelo and West Grove Streets, Seaside, Florida -- Boathouse Close, I'On, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina -- Swift Street, Buena Vista, Colorado -- Twain Avenue, Davidson, North Carolina -- SEA GARDEN WALK, ALYS BEACH, FLORIDA/Marieanne Khoury-Vogt and Erik Vogt -- Notes -- CHAPTER Six Conclusion -- Putting the Problem in Context -- Slow Down-Speed Kills -- Completer Streets.
Completer Streets with Bicycle Lanes -- Options (A Street Is A Terrible Thing To Waste) -- Experimentation and Design -- Human Habitat Diversity -- Streets Matter -- If You Know It Is Useful, and Feel It Is Beautiful, Repeat It. -- Notes -- AFTERWORD -- INDEX -- Advert -- Supplemental Images.
Abstract:
"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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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