Streets and Patterns: The Structure Of Urban Geometry

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Synopsis
There is an emerging consensus that urban street layouts should be planned with greater attention to ‘placemaking’ and urban design quality, while maintaining the conventional transport functions of accessibility and connectivity. However, it is not always clear how this might be achieved: we still tend to have different sets of guidance for main road networks and for local streetgrids. What is needed is a framework that addresses both of these, plus main streets – that don’t easily fit either set of guidance – in an integrative manner. Streets and Patterns takes up this challenge to create a coherent rationale to underpin today’s streets-oriented urban design agenda. Informed by recent research, the book looks behind existing design conventions and beyond immediate policy rhetoric, and analyses a range of first principles – from Le Corbusier and Colin Buchanan to New Urbanism. The book provides a new framework for the design and planning of urban layouts, integrating transport issues such as road hierarchy, arterial streets and multi-modal networks with urban design and planning issues such as street type, grid type, mixed-use blocks and urban design coding.
Copyright:
2004

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
336 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781134370757
Related ISBNs:
9780415317504, 9781138130548, 9780203589397
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Stephen Marshall
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Home and Garden, Education, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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