Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Urban highways in perspective
Author: Urban Highways
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on RoadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309034396
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
In this provocative volume, distinguished authorities on urban policy expose the myths surrounding today's "infrastructure crisis" in urban public works. Five in-depth papers examine the evolution of the public works system, the limitations of urban needs studies, the financing of public works projects, the impact of politics, and how technology is affecting the types of infrastructures needed for tomorrow's cities.
Urban Highways: May 1, 6, 7, 8, 27, and 28, 1968
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on RoadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Considers the effects of urban highway systems on the total environment of the areas they serve.
The View from the Road
Author: Donald AppleyardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Urban Highways, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Roads ...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Urban Street Design Guide
Author: National Association of City Transportation OfficialsPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 9781610914949
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The NACTO Urban Street Design Guide shows how streets of every size can be reimagined and reoriented to prioritize safe driving and transit, biking, walking, and public activity. Unlike older, more conservative engineering manuals, this design guide emphasizes the core principle that urban streets are public places and have a larger role to play in communities than solely being conduits for traffic. The well-illustrated guide offers blueprints of street design from multiple perspectives, from the bird’s eye view to granular details. Case studies from around the country clearly show how to implement best practices, as well as provide guidance for customizing design applications to a city’s unique needs. Urban Street Design Guide outlines five goals and tenets of world-class street design: • Streets are public spaces. Streets play a much larger role in the public life of cities and communities than just thoroughfares for traffic. • Great streets are great for business. Well-designed streets generate higher revenues for businesses and higher values for homeowners. • Design for safety. Traffic engineers can and should design streets where people walking, parking, shopping, bicycling, working, and driving can cross paths safely. • Streets can be changed. Transportation engineers can work flexibly within the building envelope of a street. Many city streets were created in a different era and need to be reconfigured to meet new needs. • Act now! Implement projects quickly using temporary materials to help inform public decision making. Elaborating on these fundamental principles, the guide offers substantive direction for cities seeking to improve street design to create more inclusive, multi-modal urban environments. It is an exceptional resource for redesigning streets to serve the needs of 21st century cities, whose residents and visitors demand a variety of transportation options, safer streets, and vibrant community life.
Special Report
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
Urban highways
Author: East West Perspectives on 21st Century Urban Development
Author: John BrotchiePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429857292
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Published in 1999. Analyzing and chronicling the continued development of key information, communication and fast transport networks at a global and regional level, this book looks at the transition to an information-based economy, and its urban impacts, at a global, regional and city level. The book outlines the change by defining it as the third great societal transition in the history of human settlement, and points to key factors that have fuelled progress. These include the growth of global telecommunications and fast transport networks; the coming together of information and communication technologies and their links to transport and land use; the shift to information and knowledge as a resource base for new industries; the increasing movement of people and information; the emergence of cities as economic entities, network nodes, and centres for generating, exchanging and processing information, and, most significantly, the competition among cities for these new key elements of of the urban economy.