{"product_id":"street-design-the-secret-to-great-cities-and-towns-paperback","title":"Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Massengale\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eVictor Dover\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive blueprint for fixing America's cities and towns, updated and expanded\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book should be required reading in schools of urban design, architecture, and landscape architecture, and an understanding of it should be part of the licensing requirements for civil, traffic, and transportation engineers.\" - Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, DPZ coDESIGN, former Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Miami. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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, Pulitzer-Prize-winning Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair, formerly at the New Yorker and the New York Times. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Massengale and Victor Dover know how to fix America's neighborhoods, cities, and towns: make them walkable again. That begins with great streets where people want to be, streets that are comfortable, safe, interesting, and beautiful. Street Design, Second Edition looks at hundreds of streets old and new, shows us what works and what doesn't, and reveals the secrets behind designing great streets and walkable places. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevised and expanded, now with full-color images throughout, this indispensable and transformative guide, the only book of its kind: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eShows examples of over 150 excellent streets and explains why they are successful and how they were designed and created\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReveals crucial elements that many modern street designs lack\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers step-by-step instruction on how to design new streets and improve existing ones to create more walkable cities and towns\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHighlights common street-design challenges and ways they can be addressed through placemaking\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures more than 600 color and black-and-white photos\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes contributions from twenty of the leading design experts in the field, including Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Léon Krier, Nicholas Boys Smith, Jeff Speck, Stefanos Polyzoides, and John Norquist, the former mayor of Milwaukee.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStreet Design, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e is the indispensable handbook for urban designers, civic leaders, architects, city planners, engineers, and landscape architects, and essential reading for any person who wants to make their community walkable and create memorable streets that are not mere routes to someplace else, but the great places to which other routes lead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive blueprint for fixing America's cities and towns, updated and expanded\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book should be required reading in schools of urban design, architecture, and landscape architecture, and an understanding of it should be part of the licensing requirements for civil, traffic, and transportation engineers.\" - Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, DPZ coDESIGN, former Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Miami.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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, Pulitzer-Prize-winning Contributing Editor at \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, formerly at the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Massengale and Victor Dover know how to fix America's neighborhoods, cities, and towns: make them walkable again. That begins with great streets where people want to be, streets that are comfortable, safe, interesting, and beautiful. \u003ci\u003eStreet Design, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e looks at hundreds of streets old and new, shows us what works and what doesn't, and reveals the secrets behind designing great streets and walkable places.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRevised and expanded, now with full-color images throughout, this indispensable and transformative guide, the only book of its kind: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eShows examples of over 150 excellent streets and explains why they are successful and how they were designed and created\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReveals crucial elements that many modern street designs lack\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers step-by-step instruction on how to design new streets and improve existing ones to create more walkable cities and towns\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHighlights common street-design challenges and ways they can be addressed through placemaking\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures more than 6 00 color and black-and-white photos\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes contributions from twenty of the leading design experts in the field, including Andr?s Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, L?on Krier, Nicholas Boys Smith, Jeff Speck, Stefanos Polyzoides, and John Norquist, the former mayor of Milwaukee. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStreet Design, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e is the indispensable handbook for urban designers, civic leaders, architects, city planners, engineers, and landscape architects, and essential reading for any person who wants to make their community walkable and create memorable streets that are not mere routes to someplace else, but the great places to which other routes lead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Massengale, \u003c\/b\u003e AIA CNU, is an architect and urban designer in New York City. He is a former Director of the Institute of Classical Architecture \u0026amp; Art and Board Member of the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU), which the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e called \"the most important phenomenon to emerge in American architecture in the post-Cold War era.\" With Robert A. M. Stern, he was coauthor of \u003ci\u003eNew York 1900: Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890-1915 and The Anglo-American Suburb.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVictor Dover, \u003c\/b\u003e FAICP, is cofounder of Dover, Kohl \u0026amp; 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 150 neighborhoods, urban revitalization programs, and regional plans across the United States and abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 576\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 16, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48813517340920,"sku":"9781119892953","price":108.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/0UB7mIdm6E9781119892953.webp?v=1780555832","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/street-design-the-secret-to-great-cities-and-towns-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}