| ||||||||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £19.50
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Streets and Patterns: The Structure of Urban Geometry for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £19.50, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
'Marshall's contribution is the opening of a systematic exploration of network structures and the development of a number of new approaches to deal with the problems implied. I am sure that his book will become a key reference in the literature on urban and transport network form.' - DISP 2005
'A thoughtful and significant contribution to the growing body of formal knowledge on our urban realm ... An entirely worthwhile study.' - Trenton Oldfield, Civic Focus, Winter 2005/06
'This is one of the most exciting books the reviewers have read this year ... [it] would be of the most interest to students and researchers ... as well as to practitioners who are looking for a useful guideline for better urban design.' - Transport Reviews
Product Description
There is an emerging consensus that urban street layouts should be planned with greater attention to ‘placemaking’ and urban design quality, while maintaining the conventional transport functions of accessibility and connectivity. However, it is not always clear how this might be achieved: we still tend to have different sets of guidance for main road networks and for local streetgrids. What is needed is a framework that addresses both of these, plus main streets – that don’t easily fit either set of guidance – in an integrative manner.
Streets and Patterns takes up this challenge to create a coherent rationale to underpin today’s streets-oriented urban design agenda. Informed by recent research, the book looks behind existing design conventions and beyond immediate policy rhetoric, and analyses a range of first principles – from Le Corbusier and Colin Buchanan to New Urbanism.
The book provides a new framework for the design and planning of urban layouts, integrating transport issues such as road hierarchy, arterial streets and multi-modal networks with urban design and planning issues such as street type, grid type, mixed-use blocks and urban design coding.
Concordance
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
On opening the book I became immediately aware that this contained a wealth and astonishing depth of information on the topic. The book has clutched onto the idea of "how to create better urban spaces without compromising the basic functionality of circulation and access" and is organised like a dissertation or analytical piece of research, with a clear beginning, middle and end. This gives a better structure to the arguments and discussions, and allows you to dip in and out of the relevant bits.
I will admit that I haven't read it cover to cover; just the bits that were relevant to my work, but I will definitely be finishing this one when I have the time. It is a thoroughly engaging and informative piece of writing, and should be a key text in architecture or urban planning. Even if you're not working in urban design, the street patterns, heirachical structures and through provoking discussions can be applied to so many designs and scenarios.... The possibilities that this book opens are incredible.
I just wish it hadn't cost me the same as a weekly food shop!
I postponed purchasing this book for a year and now wish I hadn't. A valuable resource for the transport professional.
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > Architecture > Planning
- Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > Architecture > Types of Architecture > Public Buildings
- Books > Science & Nature > Engineering & Technology > Education > Teaching Aids
- Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Social Sciences > Sociology > Family & Social Groups > Urban Communities
- Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Social Sciences > Urban & Rural Planning
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
