Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns

＂Written by two accomplished architects and urban designers, this user-friendly street design manual shows both how to design new streets and enhance existing ones. It offers step-by-step instruction and shares examples of excellent streets, examining the elements that make them successful as well as how they were designed and created. Topics also include strategies for shaping space in the public right-of-way through correct building height to street width ratios, terminated vistas, landscaping, and street geometry. This fully updated and expanded second edition of Street Design now includes three new chapters featuring the role of public health in street design, ideas for city planners, and a vision for the future of street design. It presents more examples of streets and cities from the non-Western world, showing how urban designers in Asia and Africa have handled the unique needs of their regions, with lessons for designers worldwide. The new selections showcase modern designs that both complement and contrast the traditional designs presented in the first edition＂-- Provided by publisher.

John Massengale, AIA CNU, is an architect and urban designer in New York City. He is a former Director of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art and Board Member of the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU), which the New York Times called ＂the most important phenomenon to emerge in American architecture in the post-Cold War era.＂ With Robert A. M. Stern, he was coauthor of New York 1900: Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890-1915 and The Anglo-American Suburb.

Victor Dover, FAICP, is cofounder of Dover, Kohl & Partners Town Planning based in Coral Gables, Florida, a design practice focused on restoring healthy neighborhoods as the basis for sound communities and regions. He is former national chair of the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU) and lead designer of more than 150 neighborhoods, urban revitalization programs, and regional plans across the United States and abroad.