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"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."@en
""Streets & patterns takes up the challenge of how to create better urban places without compromising the basic functionality of circulation and access. To tackle these issues, the book looks behind and beyond immediate policy rhetoric and design convetions, and revisits a range of first principles from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, to inform an integrative framework that may be used to underpin today's streets-oriented urban design agenda."--Page 4 of cover."
"The design of streets and street layout lies in a disputed professional territory somewhere between the irresistible force of new urbanism and the immovable object of road engineering convention. While there appears to be an emerging consensus that 'streets are for people', the actual rules and conventions for urban layout are still significantly influenced by Modernist principles premised on hierarchies of distributor roads and separate land use zones. In effect, there is still a mismatch between urban structural means and urban design ends; and certain prevailing orthodoxies seem ripe for reform. Streets and Patterns takes up the challenge of rethinking how urban layout may be improved towards the creation of better urban places, without compromising the basic functionality of circulation and access. To tackle these issues, the book looks behind and beyond immediate policy rhetoric and design conventions, and revisits a range of first principles from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, to inform an integrative framework that may be used to underpin today's streets-oriented urban design agenda.; The book first sets out the key challenge of today's design debate, and then explores the different kinds of streets and patterns that might be used as the basis for urban design. The nature of the route structure of urban layout is then analysed, and different kinds of hierarchical structure are explored - from the avante-garde architect (Le Corbusier) to Traffic in Towns (Colin Buchanan). By getting to grips with these different kinds of structure, the book articulates alternative structures and hence helps to crystallise structures that may better serve the design of better urban spaces. From this understanding of relationships between streets and patterns, the book proposes a reformulation of urban structuring through a street-based 'code' or 'constitution' for urban structure which can form the basis for a broader system of urban design and planning."

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"Streets and patterns the structure of urban geometry"@en
"Streets and Patterns : the Structure of Urban Geometry"@en
"Streets and patterns the structure of urban geometry"
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