Streets and Patterns : The Structure of Urban Geometry

by Stephen Marshall

This book sets out a series of concepts of street structure, offering a framework for design of street networks and addressing issues of sustainable transport and urbanism.

Genres: Nonfiction, Cities, Urban Planning

318 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[DW Rowlands · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book definitely did have some interesting ideas about how to classify street networks, and about the history behind Modernist ideas of how cities and roads should work. However, it just seemed very...formless? to me. I'm not sure what the issue was, beyond that I had trouble working out who the audience was supposed to be, and I think Marshall may have been trying to be "all things to all people" a bit too much.

[Michal Paszkiewicz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent study of streets and street systems. Excellent techniques for categorising them and a good analysis of what past approaches have meant for urban life.