Everyday Streets: Inclusive Approaches to Understanding and Designing Streets (Martire Agustina)(Paperback)

A comparative look at everyday streets in contemporary cities and how they could be more inclusively used. Everyday streets are both the most used and most undervalued of cities' public spaces. They are places of social aggregation, bringing together people of different classes, genders, ages, ethnicities, and nationalities. They comprise not just the familiar outdoor spaces that we move through and interact in but also urban blocks, interiors, depths, and hinterlands, which are integral to streets' nature and contribute to their vitality. Everyday Streets offers an inclusive approach to understanding and designing these streets through an analysis of them as found in cities around the globe. From the regular rectilinear urban blocks of Montreal to the carefully regulated narrow alleyways of Naples, and from the resilient market streets of London to the crammed
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