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Title: Great Streets by Allan B. Jacobs ISBN: 0-262-60023-4 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 04 August, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Walking in Thought
Comment: This wonderful book consideres the civic street from many perspecitives and describes it with poetic attention. The author has spent days on these great streets and brings careful measurement and observation to his carefully crafted text. If everyone planning streets and highways in America read this book and visited one of two of these great streets, it would enable a huge improvement.
This book studies the street not from the simple American perspecitve of high velocity traffic sewar, but from the realities of a place to hang out. eat lunch, shop, socialize, people watch, court, celebrate and be. The read how these places work in this book is to realize how much our desperate focus on the automobile costs us.
Buy this book and photocopy some of its illustrations for your next public hearing on town planning.
Rating: 5
Summary: Attention urban planners, designers and urbanists!
Comment: This is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in the study of urbanism.
Rating: 4
Summary: essential to any urban planner or architect
Comment: This book showcases some of the greatest streets in the world. Not only does it provide examples of great streets but it speaks about the criteria of being "great". The drawings are very nice as well, and this book would make a great addition to any architect, planner or travel enthusiasts' library.
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Title: The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards by Allan B. Jacobs, Elizabeth Macdonald, Yodan Rofé ISBN: 0262100908 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs ISBN: 067974195X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 December, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch ISBN: 0262620014 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 1960 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Urban Design Handbook: Techniques and Working Methods by Ray Gindroz, Karen Levine, Urban Design Associates, Urban Design Associates ISBN: 0393731065 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: The Spaces Between Buildings by Larry R. Ford, Judith A. Trachte ISBN: 0801863317 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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