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The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards,Used
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Silver Award Winner for Architecture in the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards. and Winner of the 2001 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. in the category of Excellence in Design and Production.First built in Europe and grandly imported to the United States in the midnineteenth 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, treelined and with separate realms for through traffic and for slowpaced vehicularpedestrian 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, Californiacelebrating their usefulness and beauty. It discusses their history and evolution, the misconceptions that led to their neardemise 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 respond to many issues that are central to urban life, including livability, mobility, safety, interest, economic opportunity, mass transit, and open space.
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