Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Streets and Patterns





This book sets out a series of concepts of street structure and offers a framework for design of street networks. It addresses issues of sustainable transport and urbanism whilst introducing new methods assisting analysis and design. International streetgrid case studies are analyses and suggest preferred types of street, network and hierarchy. This authoritative new text informs the design debate on street pattern and is set to become the definitive text on the topic.

CONTENTS:
1 Introduction
2 The challenge
3 Street type and hierarchy
4 Pattern type
5 Route structure
6 Connectivity and complexity
7 The constitution of structure
8 Modes, streets and places
9 From streets to patterns
10 Conclusions
Appendices
Glossary
Bibliography

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