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The boulevard book : history, evolution, design of multiway boulevards / Allan B. Jacobs, Elizabeth Macdonald, and Yodan Rofé.
Author
Jacobs, Allan B.
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
Description
x, 257 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
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Architecture Library - Stacks
TE279 .J33 2002
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Streets
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Design and construction
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Macdonald, Elizabeth, 1959-
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Summary note
"First built in Europe and grandly imported to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, the classic multiway boulevard has been in decline for many years, victim of a narrowly focused approach to street design that views unencumbered vehicular traffic flow as the highest priority. The American preoccupation with destination and speed has made multiway boulevards increasingly rare as artifacts of the urban landscape. This book reintroduces the boulevard, tree-lined and with separate realms for through traffic and for slow-paced vehicular-pedestrian movement, as an important and often crucial feature of both historic and contemporary cities. It presents more than fifty boulevards - as varied as Avenue Montaigne, in Paris; C.G.
Road, in Ahmedabad, India; and The Esplanade, in Chico, California - celebrating their usefulness and beauty. It discusses their history and evolution, the misconceptions that led to their near-demise in the United States, and their potential as a modern street type." "Based on wide research, The Boulevard Book examines the safety of these streets and offers design guidelines for professionals, scholars, and community decision makers. Extensive plans, cross sections, and perspective drawings permit visual comparisons. The book shows how multiway boulevards relate to many issues that are central to urban life, including livability, mobility, safety, economic opportunity, mass transit, and open space."--Jacket.
Notes
Illustrated end papers.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-250) and index.
Contents
Part I. Experiencing boulevards : Paris boulevards, a grand variety
Barcelona's elegant but threatened boulevards
Brooklyn's classic suburban boulevards: Eastern Parkway and Ocean Parkway
The grand concourse: a boulevard in need of help
The esplanade: a relative newcomer
Part II. Invention, evolution, and demise: a history
Part III. Safety, professional standards, and the importance of pedestrian realms : the relative safety of multiway boulevards
Professional and bureaucratic constraints
Part IV. A compendium of multiway boulevards
Part V. Building boulevards : Design and policy guidelines
Conclusions. Part I. Experiencing boulevards : Paris boulevards, a grand variety
Conclusions.
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History, evolution, design of multiway boulevards.
ISBN
0262100908 ((hc. ; : alk. paper))
9780262100908 ((hc. ; : alk. paper))
0262600587
9780262600583
LCCN
2001032624
OCLC
46866356
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