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"The immense amount of research, together with the authors' enthusiasm...makes "The Boulevard Book" an authoritative text."-- Ari Anderson, ""Landscape Australia""
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"The immense amount of research, together with the authors' enthusiasm...makes The Boulevard Book an authoritative text." Ari Anderson Landscape Australia "The Boulevard Book is an excellent follow-up to Alan Jacobs' Great Streets--it has the same precision in its measured sectional drawings and plans, but adds much more history to situate the type in time and place. Multi-way boulevards are an important tool for cities having to accomodate both pedestrian activity and high levels of traffic. This will be the classic text on this complex and capacious street typology."--David Grahame Shane, Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning, Columbia University "The authors tackle America's most disfunctional roadways--the commercial strips that slash their way through our cities and suburbs. They show how the boulevards of the past successfully reconciled traffic flows, parking, deliveries, pedestrians, and commercial frontages, and can serve as a model for reconstructing urban arteries. The Boulevard Book is a volume that all planners, urban designers, and lovers of cities should have at their fingertips."--Gary Hack, Dean, Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania "This is an important book that even people who are not directly connected with street design should read carefully. It teaches an important lesson about the fallacy of superficial assumptions by traffic engineers about the nature and quality of a good street. The Boulevard Book also offers an important discussion of the effort to reintroduce in current civic urban design an element of beauty in the form of a boulevard. In their different forms, boulevards provide solutions for greening cities, create pleasant and livable spaces, and contribute to the creation of sustainable cities. We badly need the kinds of suggestions found in this book."--Paolo Ceccarelli, Professor of Urban Analysis and Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, University of FerraraPlease note: Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote. "Henrik Reeh's *Ornaments of the Metropolis* uncovers the previously hidden history of Kracauer's intellectual development and provides an invaluable portrait of one of the key critics of 20th-century Weimar Germany. In this clear and very well written account, Reeh shows Kracauer in all his complexity and brilliance as he wrestles with the emergence of the modern metropolis and modern urban mass culture."--David Grahame Shane, Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning, Columbia University
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
A Nice Companion to <i>Great Streets</i>
1 Mar 2002
Format:Hardcover
This book belongs in the library of people who enjoyed GREAT STREETS by Allan Jacobs, et al, or anyone who designs modern streets. The authors have researched boulevards extensively, including their safety and utility.
If you are interested in the topic, a video is available about the authors' research from the Institute of Urban and Regional Development of the University of California at Berkeley -- 510-642-5233. It believe it is called, "Boulevards: Great Streets for Great Cities."
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
terrific source book for urban designers
11 July 2003
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This is such an interesting book. Boulevards have been neglected for several generations because they somehow didn't fit into the vocabulary used by traffic engineers. But thanks to Allan and Elizabeth, we know that they are extremely efficient ways of carrying traffic and creating safe pewdestrian environments and that they creat beautiful cities. Look at Paris, Barcelona, Melbourne and even Chico!
Really nice drawings. The book is a delight top behold.
Really nice drawings. The book is a delight top behold.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Streets do more than just move cars
25 April 2007
Format:Paperback
Jacobs and Macdonald have created a great resource for people who recognize that streets can and must do more than convey cars. I get to see Chico's Esplanade everyday. Others will have to be satisfied with the book's wonderful treatment the Esplanade gets along side its big brothers in Barcelona and Paris.
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