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The Street - A Quintessential Social Public Space (Paperback)
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The Street - A Quintessential Social Public Space (Paperback)
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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. 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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