Great Streets
$81.84
- Paperback
344 pages
- Release Date
4 August 1995
Summary
Which are the world’s best streets, and what are the physical, designable characteristics that make them great? To answer these questions, Allan Jacobs has surveyed street users and design professionals and has studied a wide array of street types and urban spaces around the world. With more than 200 illustrations, all prepared by the author, along with analysis and statistics, Great Streets offers a wealth of information on street dimensions, plans, sections, and patterns of use, al…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262600231 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262600234 |
| Author: | Allan B. Jacobs |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 344 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 4 August 1995 |
| Weight: | 1.23kg |
| Dimensions: | 305mm x 254mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Great Streets |
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Critics Review
Jacobs has been working on this classic—there’s no other word for it—for a decade. Jacobs rightly believes that good cities are made of good streets and that we’re rapidly losing our talent for creating them. He measures and draws many of the world’s great streets, from Pittsburgh to Beijing. He describes changes in the street pattern of cities like Boston, where a square mile of downtown contains 100 fewer blocks than it did a century ago…A thoughtful, sane, informed and very personal book, aimed primarily at professionals but readable enough for anyone interested in the subject.
– Robert Campbell * Boston Globe *About The Author
Allan B. Jacobs
Allan B. Jacobs is Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.
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