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Title:

Great Streets

Author:

Jacobs, Allan B.

Publication Date:

09-01-1993

Series:

ACCESS Magazine

Publication Info:

ACCESS Magazine, University of California Transportation Center, UC Berkeley

Permalink:

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Published Web Location:

http://www.uctc.net/access/access03.shtml

Keywords:

streets, boulevard, Monument Avenue, population, traffic, residential

Abstract:

Streets are more than public utilities, more than mere traffic conduits, more than the equivalentof water lines and sewers and electric cables, more than linear physical spaces that permitpeople and goods to get from here to here. To be sure, communication remains a major purpose,along with unfettered public access to property. These roles have received abundant attention,particularly in the latter half of the twentieth century. Other roles have not.

Streets shape the form and comfort of urban communities. Their sizes and arrangements giveor deny light and shade. THey may focus attention and activities on one or many centers, at theedges, along aline, or they may simply direct one's attention to nothing in particular. The threestreets that lead from the Piazza del Popolo in Rome, Via del Corso in the center give focus to thatcity as does nothing else. So does Market Street in San Francisco and a hundred Main Streetsin small cities across the United States.

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