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Great Streets

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This wonderful book consideres the civic street from many perspecitives and describes it with poetic attention. The author has spent days on these great streets and brings careful measurement and observation to his carefully crafted text. If everyone planning streets and highways in America read this book and visited one of two of these great streets, it would enable a huge improvement.

This book studies the street not from the simple American perspecitve of high velocity traffic sewar, but from the realities of a place to hang out. eat lunch, shop, socialize, people watch, court, celebrate and be. The read how these places work in this book is to realize how much our desperate focus on the automobile costs us.

Buy this book and photocopy some of its illustrations for your next public hearing on town planning.

I was really very impressed with this book! It's an exceptional insight into what really makes for a pleasant, people-friendly street! I loved it so much, when I finished it, I immediately went back to the beginning and read it all over again! Really, really very good work! You will very much enjoy it if you love planning, architecture, landscape design, or just livable, beautiful neighborhoods!

I love this book! The drawings are amazing and they really help backup what the author is saying, regarding density and proportion of streets.

This is a great book for all those interested in understand the full sense of the street. Full of handmade extraordinary drawings. Not technical definitions. Enjoyable and easy to read.

I was first introduced to this book when I decided to redesign several streets within my community. It gave great insight to what often works in various settings, from a local pedestrian street to a grand boulevard. The book is even more compelling because every description is backed up with beautiful illustrations.

I like this book, both for the beautiful illustrations and for the international view. The drawings and the text works very fine together and give a great value into understanding why some streets work better than others.

i love the drawing styles and methods presented in this book. i recommend it for anybody who loves buildings and great streets of our world.

This is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in the study of urbanism.