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Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns
John Massengale, HRH The Prince of Wales (Foreword by), Victor Dover, James Howard Kunstler (Afterword by)
ISBN: 978-1-118-41594-8
December 2013
416 pages
"This book could change the way people see the streets in their towns and cities. And it could help those towns and cities make streets for people, rather than their cars."
—Mayor Joe Riley, Charleston, South Carolina
"This fine book by Massengale and Dover is a treasure map to the long-buried trove of knowledge, skill, and principle needed to build better places for the human project to dwell in."
—From the Afterword by James Howard Kunstler
Victor Dover and John Massengale know how to fix America's neighborhoods, cities, and towns: make them walkable again. That begins with great streets where people want to be, where they feel comfortable, safe, and charmed by their surroundings. Street Design looks at hundreds of streets old and new, shows us what works and what doesn't, and reveals the secrets behind designing beautiful streets and walkable places.
This useful and transformative guide:
Street Design is the ideal handbook for urban designers, civic leaders, architects, city planners, engineers, and landscape architects, and essential reading for any person who wants to make their community walkable and create memorable streets that are not mere routes to someplace else, but the great places to which other routes lead.