Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Town s, Second Edition - John ) Massengale

A comprehensive blueprint for fixing America’s cities and towns, updated and expanded “This book should be required reading in schools of urban design, architecture, and landscape architecture, and an understanding of it should be part of the licensing requirements for civil, traffic, and transportation engineers.” —ELIZABETH PLATER-ZYBERK, DPZ coDESIGN, former Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Miami “I am delighted by the eloquence, knowledge, thoroughness, and basic common sense of Street Design, which is at once a how-to book and an ode to the beauty and wonder of cities. Much more than a formula for how to design streets, this book helps us understand that there are no simple answers or all-purpose solutions to the challenge of city-building.” —PAUL GOLDBERGER, Pulitzer-Prize-winning Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair, formerly at the New Yorker and the New York Times John Massengale and Victor 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, streets that are comfortable, safe, interesting, and beautiful. Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns, Second Edition looks at hundreds of streets old and new, shows us what works and what doesn’t, and reveals the secrets behind designing great streets and walkable places. Revised and expanded, now with full-color images throughout, this in
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