Great Streets
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Great Streets
By (Author) Allan B. Jacobs
MIT Press Ltd
MIT Press
4th August 1995
4th August 1995
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
711.41
Winner of This book received Honorable Mention in the category of Architecture and Urban Studies in the 1993 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. 1993
Physical Properties
Paperback
344
Width 254mm, Height 305mm, Spine 21mm
1225g
Description
"Great Streets" compares hundreds of streets around the world to determine the design and other elements that make some of them great. It contains plans, cross sections, and maps of individual streets and a set of one-square-mile maps of the street plans of 50 cities around the world.
Reviews
Jacobs has been working on this classicthere's no other word for itfor a decade. Jacobs rightly believes that good cities are made of good streets and that we're rapidly losing our talent for creating them. He measures and draws many of the world's great streets, from Pittsburgh to Beijing. He describes changes in the street pattern of cities like Boston, where a square mile of downtown contains 100 fewer blocks than it did a century ago...A thoughtful, sane, informed and very personal book, aimed primarily at professionals but readable enough for anyone interested in the subject.
-- Robert Campbell * Boston Globe *Author Bio
Allan B. Jacobs is Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.
