Title: The dangers of over-complicating street design
Abstract:In this comment piece, the author outlines his views on the publication, Link & Place - a guide to street planning and design by Peter Jones, University College London, Natalya Boujenko, Transport for...In this comment piece, the author outlines his views on the publication, Link & Place - a guide to street planning and design by Peter Jones, University College London, Natalya Boujenko, Transport for London and Stephen Marshall, University College London. The author evaluates the executive summary and some sections of the main text, and he reports on the authors' introduction to the book. He believes readers may feel this publication is similar to Manual for Streets published six months before Link & Place. However he feels the authors go much further, covering not only current street guidance in local residential streets, but also more strategic guidance which looks at the urban street network as a whole. It includes a well developed matrix approach which allows the link/place principles to be clearly expressed and by defining a number of different categories, gives the outputs a more quantitative value. The writer acknowledges the huge task involved in adopting this approach, and wonders if local authorities would be able to cope with such a resource-heavy exercise. He feels failure to do so would be a pity, as Link &Place would be a good tool to facilitate just such an exercise.Read More
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-10-11
Language: en
Type: article
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