Everyday Streets: Inclusive Approaches to Understanding and Designing Streets - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1800084412 ISBN 13: 9781800084414

Publisher: UCL Press, 2023

Synopsis

A comparative look at everyday streets in contemporary cities and how they could be more inclusively used.

Everyday streets are both the most used and most undervalued of cities’ public spaces. They are places of social aggregation, bringing together people of different classes, genders, ages, ethnicities, and nationalities. They comprise not just the familiar outdoor spaces that we move through and interact in but also urban blocks, interiors, depths, and hinterlands, which are integral to streets’ nature and contribute to their vitality. Everyday Streets offers an inclusive approach to understanding and designing these streets through an analysis of them as found in cities around the globe. From the regular rectilinear urban blocks of Montreal to the carefully regulated narrow alleyways of Naples, and from the resilient market streets of London to the crammed commercial streets of Chennai, the streets in this book were all conceived with a certain level of control. Everyday Streets is a palimpsest of methods, perspectives, and recommendations that together provide a solid understanding of everyday streets, their degree of inclusiveness, and to what extent they could be more inclusive.
 
 

About this title

About the Authors

Agustina Martire is an urbanist and senior lecturer in architecture at Queen's University Belfast. 

Birgit Hausleitner is an architect and urbanist and lecturer at Delft University of Technology. 

Jane Clossick is an urbanist and senior lecturer in architecture at London Metropolitan University.

Edition details

• Publisher: UCL Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1800084412
• ISBN 13: 9781800084414
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Martire Agustina, Hausleitner Birgit, Clossick Jane