Street Design

"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 fully updated and expanded second edition of Street Design now includes three new chapters featuring the role of public health in street design, ideas for city planners, and a vision for the future of street design. It presents more examples of streets and cities from the non-Western world, showing how urban designers in Asia and Africa have handled the unique needs of their regions, with lessons for designers worldwide. The new selections showcase modern designs that both complement and contrast the traditional designs presented in the first edition"-- Provided by publisher.