Victor Dover

A comprehensive blueprint for fixing America's cities and towns, updated and expanded “This book should be required reading in schools of urban design, architecture, and landscape architecture, and an understanding of it should be part of the licensing requirements for civil, traffic, and transportation engineers.” – Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, DPZ coDESIGN, former Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Miami. “I am delighted by the eloquence, knowledge, thoroughness, and basic common sense of Street Design, which is at once a how-to book and an ode to the beauty and wonder of cities. Much more than a formula for how to design streets, this book helps us understand that there are no simple answers or all-purpose solutions to the challenge of city-building.” – Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer-Prize-winning Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair, formerly at the New Yorker and the New York Times. John Massengale and Victor Dover know how to fix America's neighborhoods, cities, and towns: make them walkable again. That begins with great streets where people want to be, streets that are comfortable, safe, interesting, and beautiful. Street Design, Second Edition looks at hundreds of streets old and new, shows us what works and what doesn't, and reveals the secrets behind designing great streets and walkable places. Revised and expanded, now with full-color images throughout, this indispensable and transformative guide, the only book of its kind: Shows examples of over 150 excellent streets and explains why they are successful and how they were designed and createdReveals crucial elements that many modern street designs lackOffers step-by-step instruction on how to design new streets and improve existing ones to create more walkable cities and townsHighlights common street-design challenges and ways they can be addressed through placemakingFeatures more than 600 color and black-and-white photosIncludes contributions from twenty of the leading design experts in the field, including Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Léon Krier, Nicholas Boys Smith, Jeff Speck, Stefanos Polyzoides, and John Norquist, the former mayor of Milwaukee. Street Design, Second Edition is the indispensable handbook for urban designers, civic leaders, architects, city planners, engineers, and landscape architects, and essential reading for any person who wants to make their community walkable and create memorable streets that are not mere routes to someplace else, but the great places to which other routes lead.

The New Urbanism has dramatically transformed the way illustrations are used to advance the dialogue of community planning and place making. New Urbanists have revived and advanced techniques of visual communication that enable professionals, elected officials and citizens from all walks of life to engage in designing their neighborhoods and communities. While created as means to an end, these visualizations are often compelling artworks in their own right. The Art of the New Urbanism features the first-ever, comprehensive collection of New Urbanist artworks, with more than 200 selected works produced by more than 100 practitioners and firms. The collected works include plans, renderings of buildings, streetscapes and gathering places, studies of precedents, and photographs of built projects. This book includes seminal material from the early history of the movement that has inspired generations of community building professionals, as well as a wide variety of hand-drawn and digital works that represent methods used today. Through their commentaries on each work, designers share the place making principles visualized through their plans and renderings and how their work responded to the public process. The Art of the New Urbanism contributors include: Joseph Altuna Andrés Duany Dana P. Little Peter Richards ARCAS Paris Edward Erfurt Jeffrey Loman Robin Riley Jonathan Arnold Manuel Fernandez-Noval Tom Low Chris Ritter Eusebio Azcue Steven Fett Michael McCann Joshua J. Rivera Charles Barrett Jennifer García Scott Merrill Abel Rodriguez Marcos Bastian Kenneth García John Miki David Rodríguez Drew Bowman Mark Garzon Elizabeth Moule Clay Rokicki Peter Calthorpe Andrew Georgiadis Steve Mouzon SCENESIS PICTURES Brian Canin Ernesto Gloria John Moynahan David M. Schwarz David Carrico Bonnie Gonzalez Juan Mullerat Robert Scott Christopher Carrigan &#8195Jennifer Griffin Peter Musty Jennifer Settle Juan A. Caruncho John Griffin Thai Nguyen Shailendra Singh Eduardo Castillo Arti Harchekar Anne Marie Noll Joe Skibba Maricé Chael Peter Harmatuck Colleen O’Keeffe Daniel Solomon Dede Christopher Seth Harry Lew Oliver Sandy Sorlien Anthony Cissell Xiaojian He Dan Osborne Christian Sottile Craig Clements Brian Hendrickson Paul Ostergaard Kristen Sparenborg Andrew Cogar Steve Hinds Eric Osth Lucien Steil David Colgan Troy Homenchuk Daniel Parolek Robert A. M. Stern Daniel W. Cook C. J. Howard Karen Parolek Dhiru A. Thadani Chad Cooper Randall Imai Stefan Pellegrini John Torti Jaime Correa Christopher Janson Christopher M. Pizzi Erick Valle Cindy Cox Joseph Kabriel Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk Estela Valle David R. Csont Peter Katz Chris Podstawski David VanGroningen dbox Brian Kelly Stefanos Polyzoides Max Von Trott Lohren Ray Deeg Kevin Klinkenberg Evan Posley James Wassell Bill Dennis Joseph Kohl Asa Prentice Anthony Way Harry Dodson Leon Krier Russell Preston Vladislav Yeliseyev James Dougherty Matthew Lambert Steve Price JJ Zanetta Victor Dover Jacob Lindsey Ian Rasmussen Art Zendarski

"The best streets in the world's villages, towns, and cities—whether modest or grand—continually remind one that simplicity is part of the recipe for success in this art. The advice of Victor Dover and John Massengale, their historic examples and their own designs, reflect that simplicity." —From the Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales “Street Design is a lucid, practical and altogether indispensable guide for envisioning and creating vibrant 21st century towns and cities. It should be required reading for every local political leader, planner, architect, real estate developer and engaged urban citizen in America." —Kurt Andersen, host of Studio 360 and author of True Believers "We are going to start walking around the places we live again, and as that occurs and becomes normal, we will rapidly redevelop a demand for higher quality in building at the human scale." —From the Afterword by James Howard Kunstler “Your charrette traveling library must include the important Street Design book by Victor Dover and John Massengale.”—Bill Lennertz, Executive Director, National Charrette Institute “What an amazing resource! For those who wish that my book, Walkable City, had pictures, this is the book for you. If either your work or your play includes the making of places, you will find Street Design to be an invaluable tool.” —Jeff Speck, AICP, CNU-A, LEED-AP, Hon. ASLA Written by two accomplished architects and urban designers, this user-friendly street design manual shows both how to design new streets and enhance existing ones. It offers step-by-step instruction and shares examples of excellent streets, examining the elements that make them successful as well as how they were designed and created. Topics also include strategies for shaping space in the public right-of-way through correct building height to street width ratios, terminated vistas, landscaping, and street geometry. This book is a valuable resource for urban designers, planners, architects, and engineers. With guest essays from: Kaid Benfield, David Brussat, Javier Cenicacelaya, Hank Dittmar, Andres Duany, Douglas Duany, Emily Glavey, Chip Kaufman, Ethan Kent, Marieanne Khoury-Vogt, Léon Krier, Gianni Longo, Thomas Low, Laura Lyon, Chuck Marohn, Paul Murrain, John Norquist, Stefanos Polyzoides, Gabriele Tagliaventi and Erik Vogt.