Living streets
Subtitle: strategies for crafting public space
By: Lesley Bain, Barbara Gray, Dave Rodgers
Contributors: Gray, Barbara, 1966-; Rodgers, Dave, 1969-
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; Wiley
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780470903810
Subjects: City planning; Community development; Sustainable urban development; ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning
Description: "Written for teams of engineers, transportation planners, landscape architects, and urban planners, this book provides a broad overview of the growing approach towards complete and sustainable street design. Its contents present the background on modern street design and where it has failed, describe a series of street typologies, and demonstrate, through geographically diverse case studies, the applicable lessons learned from each. Featuring examples from over two dozen completed street design projects around the world, it provides practical guidance on the complete street approach to sustainable and community-minded street and road design"--

"Serves to provide practical guidance on the complete street approach to sustainable and community-minded street and road design. Written for teams of engineers, transportation planners, landscape architects and urban planners, the book provides a broad overview of the design and policy tools that have been successful, presents background on modern street design and where it has failed in many aspects, describes a series of street typologies, and demonstrates, through a variety of geographically diverse case studies, the applicable lessons learned from each"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.