A History of Street Networks

from Grids to Sprawl and Beyond

Laurence Aurbach

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English

Pedshed Press
29 January 2020

City & town planning - architectural aspects; Urban & municipal planning; Transport planning & policy; History of engineering & technology; Highway & traffic engineering

Roadway networks are the basic frameworks of cities. They endure for centuries, influencing the ways that cities operate and their residents' quality of life. A History of Street Networks explores the origins and institutionalization of modern roadway networks, particularly the networks of urban sprawl. The book surveys an international history of these powerful yet unheralded infrastructure systems.

It is a story of far-reaching reform, as dreamers, designers, engineers, and business interests sought to remold urban environments into new and radically different patterns. Traffic separation--the separation of different types of traffic from each other--was a key motive of their city-planning and traffic-engineering efforts. The traffic-separation idea is traced from its international emergence during the Industrial Revolution, to its codification in urban sprawl, to the countermovement of neotraditionalism.

More than one hundred individuals, visions, built projects, and policies are examined, representing the most important efforts to make and control roadway patterns. Comprehensive, detailed, and abundantly illustrated, A History of Street Networks is a valuable resource for anyone wanting to understand some of the major forces that have shaped, and continue to shape, urban environments.

By: Laurence Aurbach
Imprint: Pedshed Press
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 721g
ISBN: 9781734345872
ISBN 10: 173434587X
Pages: 418
Publication Date: 29 January 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Laurence Aurbach is an independent writer and editor specializing in urban design and sustainable transportation. He has been involved in the new-urbanism and smart-growth movements for two decades, working on a variety of topics including project evaluation, street networks, and green urbanism. He contributed to The Language of Towns and Cities (2012) and The Charter of the New Urbanism (2013).

Reviews for A History of Street Networks: from Grids to Sprawl and Beyond

Laurence Aurbach provides us with a detailed, informative and beautifully illustrated guide to the evolution of street networks as attempts to separate different types of traffic: fast from slow, business from pleasure, pedestrians from vehicles. He reveals standard urban forms, from viaducts and arcades to freeways and elevated railways, as different responses to this need to separate traffic. A well-written and generously illustrated volume. It is a tour de force providing a fresh perspective with the basic hallmark of a classic; making us see the underlying structure behind the taken-for-granted. -- John Rennie Short, author of The Unequal City (2018) and professor of public policy at University of Maryland Baltimore County