Street Standards and the Shaping of Suburbia Export

@article{citeulike:3850922, abstract = {The current surge of interest in reassessing the physical form of the American suburb is heightening awareness of the physical and social impacts of local street design. Yet one hundred and fifty years of ideology are so thoroughly embedded in the making of suburban streets that challenges to traditional street layouts and design usually meet with outright rejection. How did the design process and built environment become so dependent on certain regulations and criteria? The historical evolution of suburban residential street standards is traced here through a review of professional and technical publications, as well as historical precedents. Urban designers, planners, and engineers should work together to develop street designs that are more responsive to the diverse users of streets and to varied social and geographic settings.}, author = {Southworth, Michael and Ben-Joseph, Eran}, citeulike-article-id = {3850922}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01944369508975620}, doi = {10.1080/01944369508975620}, journal = {Journal of the American Planning Association}, keywords = {design, neighborhood, planning, street, suburban}, number = {1}, pages = {65--81}, posted-at = {2009-01-05 16:01:41}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Routledge}, title = {Street Standards and the Shaping of Suburbia}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01944369508975620}, volume = {61}, year = {1995} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3850922 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3850922 N2 - The current surge of interest in reassessing the physical form of the American suburb is heightening awareness of the physical and social impacts of local street design. Yet one hundred and fifty years of ideology are so thoroughly embedded in the making of suburban streets that challenges to traditional street layouts and design usually meet with outright rejection. How did the design process and built environment become so dependent on certain regulations and criteria? The historical evolution of suburban residential street standards is traced here through a review of professional and technical publications, as well as historical precedents. Urban designers, planners, and engineers should work together to develop street designs that are more responsive to the diverse users of streets and to varied social and geographic settings. IS - 1 JF - Journal of the American Planning Association EP - 81 TI - Street Standards and the Shaping of Suburbia PB - Routledge VL - 61 SP - 65 KW - design KW - neighborhood KW - planning KW - street KW - suburban AU - Southworth, Michael AU - Ben-Joseph, Eran PY - 1995/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01944369508975620 ER -