Written by two accomplished architects and urban designers, this user-friendly street design manual 'STREET DESIGN. The Secret to Great Cities and Towns' 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.
The book 'STREET DESIGN. The Secret to Great Cities and Towns' is a valuable resource for urban designers, planners, architects, and engineers.
Written by two accomplished architects and urban designers, this user-friendly street design manual 'STREET DESIGN. The Secret to Great Cities and Towns' 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.
The book 'STREET DESIGN. The Secret to Great Cities and Towns' is a valuable resource for urban designers, planners, architects, and engineers.
