Wasted space/potential place: Reconsidering urban streets

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Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 22-27

  Macdonald, Elizabeth ^a  

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1. These assertions come from experiential observation, but they are supported by the dimensional recommendations of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). See AASHTO, A Policy on Geometrie Design of Streets and Highways (Washington, D. C. , 2001), p. 396.
2. See, for example, Eran Ben-Joscpb, The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005)
3. Peter Hall, Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1988)
4. and Stephen Ward, Planning the Twentieth-Century City (Chichester, U. K. : John Wiley & Sons, 2002).
5. See Allan B. Jacobs, Great Streets (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993), p. 6
6. For a detailed discussion of the benefits of street trees, see Nicholas Low, Brendan Gleeson, Ray Green, and Darko Radovic, The Green City: Sustainable Homes, Sustainable Suburbs (Abingdon, U. K. : Routledge, 2005)
7. and Anne Whiston Spirn, The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design (New York: Basie Books, 1984).
8. Eor a detailed discussion of green streets, see Portland Metro, Green Streets: Innovative Solutions for Stormwater and Stream Crossings (Portland, OR: Metro, 2002)
9. and Portland Metro, Trees for Green Streets: An Illustrated Guide to Selecting Street Trees that Reduce Stormwater Runoff from Streets and Improve Water Quality (Portland, OR: Metro, 2002).
10. The many dimensions of the public health/urban form question, and accounts of the latest research, can be found in Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson, Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building For Healthy Communities (Washington, D. C. : Island Press, 2004)
11. See AASHTO, A Policy on Geometric Design of Streets and Highways (Washington, D. O. , 2001), chapter 7.
12. See, for example, J. L. Gattis and Austin Watts, "Urban Street Speed Related to Width and Functional Class," Journal of Transportation Engineering, May/June 1999, pp. 193-200.
13. For more about Eastern and Ocean Parkways, see Chapter 3 in Allan B. Jacobs, Elizabeth Macdonald, and Yodan Rofé, The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002).
14. Vancouver Town Planning Commission, A Plan for the City of Vancouver; British Columbia (Vancouver, B. C. : Town Planning Commission, 1929).
15. This history is well chronicled in Clay McShane, Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994).
16. The recently published report "Street Trees and Intersection Safety," available on the University of California Transportation Center website (http://www. uctc. net/papers/papers. html), presents the findings of a research project conducted by the author directed at determining whether street trees near intersections really cause viewing problems. The findings suggest that such trees do not cause substantial visibility problems, but that parked cars do.