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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobs, Allan B.

Contributor:

Macdonald, Elizabeth, 1959-

Rofé, Yodan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Streets--Design and construction.

Streets.

Physical Description:

x, 257 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2002]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [244]-250) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0262100908

OCLC:

46866356

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