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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 TimesJohn 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: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns, 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 createdPresents interactive, three-dimensional models of the ten essential street types at https://www.street.design/modelsReveals 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 700 color and black-and-white imagesIncludes 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 MilwaukeeStreet 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.

Visual resource on new urbanism and architecture with expert commentary includedThe Art of the New Urbanism: Volume 2 (2010-2025) is a treasure trove of transformative urban design for architects, urban designers, city planners, real estate developers, builders, municipal planning departments, community redevelopment agencies, citizen activists, and students seeking to expand their perspective and develop and implement new designs.The Art of the New Urbanism: Volume 2 (2010-2025) showcases more than 400 works by over 150 contributors, demonstrating a dramatic expansion and refinement of the tools and techniques used by new urbanists to address a wide range of entrenched and rapidly emerging problems. During this era, new urbanists were at the forefront of urban redevelopment, sprawl repair, agrarian urbanism, form-based coding, traffic-planning reform to promote safe, walkable streets, the reintroduction of missing-middle housing, small-scale development, and incremental urbanism, including tactical urbanism. Designers’ commentaries accompany each work, encompassing hand-drawn illustrations and an increasing variety of digital and hybrid works, including beautifully crafted plans and renderings of neighborhoods, buildings, streetscapes, and gathering places; artistic diagrams and codes; and photographs of a growing number and variety of built projects.The Art of the New Urbanism: Volume 2 (2010-2025) includes: Startlingly beautiful, inspiring and insightful drawings gathered in one collection for the first time—most never previously publishedSeminal material from the history of the movement that inspired a generation of design professionals and their partners to collaborate and advance alternatives to sprawl and rebuild towns and citiesInsights on the continued artistic and technical evolution of visual storytelling in community planning, architecture, and real estate developmentNew Urbanism patterns, practices and techniques that are widely popular, value-creating, practical, and feasible—not just idyllic dreamsReal-world case studies of New Urbanism, including retrofitting suburbia, sustainable urbanism, and form-based codes