{"product_id":"great-streets-mit-press-9780262600231","title":"Great Streets (Mit Press)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhich are the worlds best streets  and what are the physical  designable characteristics that make them great? To answer these questions  Allan Jacobs has surveyed street users and design professionals and has studied a wide array of street types and urban spaces around the world. With more than 200 illustrations  all prepared by the author  along with analysis and statistics  Great Streets offers a wealth of information on street dimensions  plans  sections  and patterns of use  all systematically compared. It also reveals Jacobss eye for the telling human and social details that bring streets and communities to life. An extensive introduction discusses the importance of streets in creating communities and criteria for identifying the best streets. The essays that follow examine 15 particularly fine streets  ranging from medieval streets in Rome and Copenhagen to Venices Grand Canal  from Parisian boulevards to tree-lined residential streets in American cities. Jacobs also looks at several streets that were once very fine but are less successful today  such as Market Street in San Francisco  identifying the factors that figure in their decline. To broaden his coverage  Jacobs adds briefer treatments of more than 30 other streets arranged by street type  including streets from Australia  Japan  and classical antiquity in addition to European and North American examples. For each of these streets he has prepared plans  sections  and maps  all drawn at the same scales to facilitate comparisons  along with perspective views and drawings of significant design details. Another remarkable feature of this book is a set of 50 one square-mile maps  each reproduced at the same scale  of the street plans of representative cities around the world. These reveal much about the texture of the cities street patterns and hence of their urban life. Jacobss analysis of the maps adds much original data derived from them  including changes of street patterns over time. Jacobs concludes by summarizing the practical design qualities and strategies that have contributed most to the making of great streets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647221850165,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262600234","price":34.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262600231.jpg?v=1781689945","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/great-streets-mit-press-9780262600231","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}