Public Streets for Public Use

Thirty-two respected urban designers, planners, architects, and scholars offer strategies for making streets contributors to and unifiers of enriched urban environments. Among the major topics addressed: evolution of "democratic" streets, show vareid uses change with changing public demands; ways to encourage the public, including merchants, to participate in the street-planning or redesign process; the need for street designs that take into account the special requirements of children and the elderly; strategies for improving the natural environment by introducing more light and cleaner air to the street; the use of streets as educational tools. The essays in this volume outline practical procedures for developing and managing truly public streets in addition to addressing urban policy issues and environmental concerns.

Excellent clean, bright and tight condition. Would be considered near fine, except that previous owner wrote their name in marker on front cover (which is obscured by dust jacket).

pub date: 1987 publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold pages: 351 format: Hardcover ISBN: 442264046 sku: 4473 $145.00 (Qty avail: 1)