Livable streets 2.0 /

Livable Streets 2.0 offers a thorough examination of the struggle between automobiles, residents, pedestrians and other users of streets, along with evidence-based, practical strategies for redesigning city street networks that support urban livability. In 1981, when Donald Appleyard's Livable...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Appleyard, Bruce (Autor), Appleyard, Donald (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Cambridge, MA : Elsevier, 2021.
Temas:
City planning.
City traffic.
Streets.
Neighborhoods > Environmental aspects.
Urban policy.
Circulation urbaine.
Rues.
Politique urbaine.
streets.
Urban policy
Neighborhoods > Environmental aspects
City planning
City traffic
Streets
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Title page
  • Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • Donald Appleyard's original dedication
  • Bruce Appleyard's additional dedication
  • Author biography
  • Affiliations and expertise
  • Foreword
  • Conflict, power, promise, and the future of streets: Problem understanding, and problem solving
  • The endurance of livable streets: An essay on the conflict, power, promise, and future of our streets
  • Prelude: The inspiration and eclipse of Livable Streets
  • Acknowledgments
  • Dr. Bruce Appleyard's new acknowledgments
  • Donald Appleyard's acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • The need for a comprehensive approach: From human-scale, to ecosystem/regional level planning and design
  • Part I: Street conflict: Living with traffic
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Three streets in San Francisco
  • Abstract
  • Study design
  • Some questions raised
  • Chapter 2: The ecology of the street
  • Abstract
  • Travelers and traffic
  • Emissions
  • Street environment
  • Environmental impacts
  • Residents
  • Satisfaction, annoyance, and evaluation
  • Adaptive responses
  • Changes over time
  • Chapter 3: Street images, values, and problems
  • Abstract
  • Street environments
  • Resident characteristics
  • Street images
  • Satisfaction, evaluation, and fear
  • Confounded expectations
  • Resident needs and values
  • What bothers most? The dominance of traffic
  • Values and needs versus problems
  • Chapter 4: Intrusion, disruption, and adaptation: People in the street ecology at peace, in conflict, or in retreat
  • Abstract
  • Dangers from traffic and crime
  • Noise and vibration
  • Air pollution
  • Cleanliness, appearance, and maintenance
  • Parking and local access
  • Home, privacy, and responsibility
  • Impacts on street life
  • Impacts on home life
  • Adaptive responses
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 5: Streets of San Francisco: Traffic, streets, improvements, and income levels-A summary
  • Abstract
  • The streets of San Francisco: A summary
  • Review of findings
  • Relationship with urban context: Effects of the street environment and house type
  • Social ecology of the streets-streets in social transition
  • Chapter 6: The vulnerable groups
  • Abstract
  • Households with children and the elderly
  • Children and traffic
  • Age and traffic
  • Health
  • Old people on two streets
  • Old people and traffic
  • Chapter 7: The meaning of livable and complete streets to schoolchildren
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Image/cognitive mapping
  • Mapping exercise
  • The cognitive development benefits of creating safe routes to school: Before and after comparison of the influence of SR2S infrastructure improvements
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix A: Cognitive mapping protocol
  • Chapter 8: The human scale relationships of traffic, street livability, health, and equity: A review of determinants and barriers to physical, mental, and social health
  • Abstract

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