Overview
On September 23, 1982, Donald Appleyard was killed by a speeding drunk driver. A year earlier the first edition of Livable Streets was published, a groundbreaking work that was the product of more than a decade of rigorous research and exceptionally thoughtful analysis. Donald's untimely death was extremely painful for his family. But it was also a devastating loss for the community of planning, engineering and urban design practitioners and researchers, as well as to the thousands of people who may not have known him but whose environments and lives are more joyful and satisfying because he helped plan them - humanely. The tragic irony of Donald Appleyard's death by an automobile and the actions of its careless driver underscored a central question raised in Livable Streets -- Had those involved in the drive to accommodate cars and trucks on city streets gone too far? Had they overshot their objective, allowing automobile's to take over neighborhood streets with menacingly lethal indifference? With the growth of automobile encroachment on neighborhood streets skyrocketing in our world's most populous countries, these questions are just as relevant today as when Donald Appleyard first asked them. In Livable Streets Donald Appleyard left us a guidebook to find our way back- to recapture our streets for our communities- to recreate and preserve them as enriching and joyful places for residents and travelers alike. In the early 1980s this was a dramatically bold vision and challenge to the dominant paradigm guiding the design, construction and operation of streets. Now Donald's son Bruce Appleyard, himself an experienced planner, together with some of the world's leading planners, puts the original Livable Streets into today's context, updating the reseach while remaining true to the nature of this seminal book whose influence will still be felt for many years to come. For a video detailing the subject of Donald and Bruce's work, please visit http://www.streetfilms.org/revisiting-donald-appleyards-livable-streets/
Full Product Details
Author: Donald Appleyard ,
Bruce Appleyard
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415610629
ISBN 10: 0415610621
Pages: 382
Publication Date: 01 January 2020
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unknown
Availability: Out of stock
Reviews
It was Donald Appleyard's Livable Streets that finally pushed the button. Appleyard... laid out the social effects of cars on cities in glaring detail, using the best social-network-analysis methods available. The book is simply an indictment of the effects of street traffic on the fabric of urban neighborhoods. - J.H. Crawford, author of Carfree Cities Appleyard tells us exactly what is wrong with city streets and how to make small changes that will get big results - C. Kenneth Orski, public policy consultant and former principal of the Urban Mobility Corporation It was perhaps the most influential urban design book of its time - Professor Randolph Hester, University of California Donald Appleyard was one of the giants of the urban planning field, at a time when the field produced giants. While other work of Donald's influenced our careers... none had more influence on us and others than Livable Streets. - Professor Reid Ewing, Research Professor at the National Center for Smart Growth and associate editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association In 2009, Livable Streets was featured in JAPA as one of the most influential planning books of the 20th century.
