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STREET DESIGN: THE SECRET TO GREAT CITIES AND TOWNS (SECOND EDITION)
NEW YORK, N.Y. (October 30, 2024) – John Wiley & Sons, Inc. announced plans to publish a dramatically revised and expanded Second Edition of Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns by John Massengale and Victor Dover. The book has been updated with new case studies, photos and drawings, plus a 28-page Catalog of Essential Street Types. This new edition is now in color throughout and in paperback format, arriving February 15, 2025.
Massengale and Dover know how to fix America’s neighborhoods, cities, and towns: by making them walkable again. That begins with great streets where people want to be, streets that are comfortable, safe, and interesting. In Street Design, two accomplished architects and urban designers share insights on how good street design can increase happiness, unlock economic value, improve our health, and lower our carbon footprints.
Americans are demanding streets that serve the needs of their communities as well as their cars. In this book you will discover why some streets are not merely routes to someplace else, but the great addresses to which other routes lead. This user-friendly street design book analyzes and illustrates hundreds of streets old and new, shows us what works and what doesn’t, and reveals the secrets behind designing beautiful streets and walkable places.
Street Design is the essential handbook for urban designers, civic leaders, architects, city planners, engineers, developers, landscape architects, and community activists: it is ideal reading for any person who wants to make their community walkable and create memorable streets that are not just routes to someplace else, but great places that are destinations in themselves.
This indispensable and transformative guide, the only book of its kind:
Offers instruction on how to design new streets and improve existing ones to create more walkable cities and towns
Shows examples of over 150 excellent historic streets, retrofitted streets, and new streets, and explains why they are successful and how they were designed and created
Highlights common street design challenges and ways they can be addressed
Includes strategies for shaping space in the public right-of-way through correct building height to street width ratios, composed vistas, landscape, and street geometry
Features more than 740 color and black-and-white photos
Includes a new Foreword by Carlos Moreno, author of The 15-Minute City, and an Afterword by Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, FAIA, co-founder of the New Urbanism movement
Incorporates guest essays from 24 of the leading thinkers in the field, including Andrés Duany, Léon Krier, Ethan Kent, Kaid Benfield, and John Norquist, the former mayor of Milwaukee.
Publish date: February 15, 2024
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119892953
ISBN13: 978-1-119-89295-3
Price: $79.95
Pages: 576 pages
Images: 740, most in color
Cover: Paperback
Trim Size: 8.5 x 10.875 inches
Website: street.design
About the authors:
John Massengale, AIA, CNU, is an architect and urban designer in New York City. He is a leader in the CNU, which has been called “the most important phenomenon to emerge in American architecture in the post–Cold War era,” and a former Director of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. 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 200 neighborhoods, urban revitalization programs, and regional plans across the United States and abroad.
Praise for Street Design, Second Edition:
“This book should be required reading in schools of urban design, architecture, and landscape architecture, and an understanding of it should be a requirement for civil, traffic, and transportation engineers.”
—From the Afterword by Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
“Street Design is a lucid, practical and altogether indispensable guide for envisioning and creating vibrant 21st century towns and cities. It should be required reading for every local political leader, planner, architect, real estate developer and engaged urban citizen in America.”
—Kurt Andersen, host of Studio 360 and author of True Believers
“This book could change the way people see the streets in their towns and cities. And it could help those towns and cities make streets for people, rather than their cars.”
—Mayor Joe Riley, Charleston, South Carolina
"I am delighted by the eloquence, knowledge, thoroughness, and basic common sense of Street Design, which is at once a how-to book and an ode to the beauty and wonder of cities. Much more than a formula for how to design streets, this book helps us understand that there are no simple answers or all-purpose solutions to the challenge of city-building.”
—Paul Goldberger, contributing editor at Vanity Fair and architectural critic for The New York Times
