Main entry:

Jacobs, Allan B.

Title & Author:

The boulevard book : history, evolution, design of multiway boulevards / Allan B. Jacobs, Elizabeth Macdonald, and Yodan Rofé.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.

Description:

x, 257 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-250) and index.
Part I. Experiencing boulevards : Paris boulevards, a grand variety -- Barcelona's elegant but threatened boulevards -- Brooklyn's classic suburban boulevards: Eastern Parkway and Ocean Parkway -- The grand concourse: a boulevard in need of help -- The esplanade: a relative newcomer -- Part II. Invention, evolution, and demise: a history -- Part III. Safety, professional standards, and the importance of pedestrian realms : the relative safety of multiway boulevards -- Professional and bureaucratic constraints -- Part IV. A compendium of multiway boulevards -- Part V. Building boulevards : Design and policy guidelines -- Conclusions. Part I. Experiencing boulevards : Paris boulevards, a grand variety -- Barcelona's elegant but threatened boulevards -- Brooklyn's classic suburban boulevards: Eastern Parkway and Ocean Parkway -- The grand concourse: a boulevard in need of help -- The esplanade: a relative newcomer -- Part II. Invention, evolution, and demise: a history -- Part III. Safety, professional standards, and the importance of pedestrian realms : the relative safety of multiway boulevards -- Professional and bureaucratic constraints -- Part IV. A compendium of multiway boulevards -- Part V. Building boulevards : Design and policy guidelines -- Conclusions.

Summary:

"First built in Europe and grandly imported to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, the classic multiway boulevard has been in decline for many years, victim of a narrowly focused approach to street design that views unencumbered vehicular traffic flow as the highest priority. The American preoccupation with destination and speed has made multiway boulevards increasingly rare as artifacts of the urban landscape. This book reintroduces the boulevard, tree-lined and with separate realms for through traffic and for slow-paced vehicular-pedestrian movement, as an important and often crucial feature of both historic and contemporary cities. It presents more than fifty boulevards - as varied as Avenue Montaigne, in Paris; C.G.
Road, in Ahmedabad, India; and The Esplanade, in Chico, California - celebrating their usefulness and beauty. It discusses their history and evolution, the misconceptions that led to their near-demise in the United States, and their potential as a modern street type." "Based on wide research, The Boulevard Book examines the safety of these streets and offers design guidelines for professionals, scholars, and community decision makers. Extensive plans, cross sections, and perspective drawings permit visual comparisons. The book shows how multiway boulevards relate to many issues that are central to urban life, including livability, mobility, safety, economic opportunity, mass transit, and open space."--Jacket.

Resources:
Book review (E-STREAMS)
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

0262100908 (hc. ; alk. paper)
9780262100908 (hc. ; alk. paper)
0262600587
9780262600583

Subject:

Streets Design and construction.
Rues Conception et construction.
Boulevard
Straßengestaltung
Straten.
Boulevards.
Stadsplanning.

Added entries:

Macdonald, Elizabeth, 1959-
Rofé, Yodan.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 220046
Call No.: HE336.B6 J33 2002
Status: Available