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5.0 out of 5 stars About This Book..., June 30, 2010
This review is from: On Streets (Paperback)
This review is for the MIT edition in paperback (ISBN 0262510391.)

This remarkable book is a chunky, square trade paperback, 416 pp, 2.5 pounds, featuring something like 300 b&w illustrations: photos, sketches, period prints, maps, charts, architectural renderings.

16 chapters, Index.

About 20 pp of narrative and bibliographic End Notes and a 16 p Bibliography.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Urban Ecology of Streets

Streets in the Past

- The Street

- Scenes of the Street: Transformations in Ideal and Reality: 1750-1871

Structure of Streets

- Spatial Structure

- Buildings and Streets: Configuration and Use

- A Survey of Principal American Street Environments

Streets as Channels

- Toward an Evaluation of Transportation Potentials for the Urban Street

Street as Locus of Communication and Signification

- The Street as Communications Artifact

- Toward a Theory of Production of Sense

Social Aspects of Streets and of Street Interventions

- Anthropology and Sociology of Streets

- Human Dimensions of Urban Design

- The Street Generation

Streets Within a Contextual Model

- Ecological Model of the Urban Environment

- The Generic Street as a Continuous Built Form

Demonstration Project

- Streets in the Central Area of a Small American City

Rethinking the Urban Street: Its Economic Context
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