Received the Environmental Design Research Association's 2014
Place Book Award
Shortlisted for the UDG Francis Tibbalds Book Award 2014
Good cities are places of social encounter. Creating public
spaces that encourage social behavior in our cities and
neighborhoods is an important goal of city design. One of the
cardinal roles of the street, as public space, is to provide a
setting for sociability.
How do we make sociable streets? This book shows us how these
ordinary public spaces can be planned and designed to become
settings that support an array of social behaviors. Through
carefully crafted research, "The Street" systematically examines
people's actions and perceptions, develops a comprehensive typology
of social behaviors on the neighborhood commercial street and
provides a thorough inquiry into the social dimensions of
streets.
Vikas Mehta shows that sociability is not a result of the
physical environment alone, but is achieved by the relationships
between the physical environment, the land uses, their management,
and the places to which people assign special meanings.
Scholars and students of urban design, planning, architecture,
geography and sociology will find the book a stimulating resource.
The material is also directly applicable to practice and should be
widely read by professional urban designers, planners, architects,
and others involved in the design, planning, and implementation of
commercial streets.
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