The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards

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Streets do more than just move cars

terrific source book for urban designers

A Nice Companion to Great Streets

Good Book - but some criticism

The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards
Allan B. Jacobs , Elizabeth Macdonald , and Yodan Rofé
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0262600587

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First built in Europe and grandly imported to the United States in the mid-nineteenth 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, 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 boulevardsâ-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.

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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Streets do more than just move cars.......2007-04-26

Jacobs and Macdonald have created a great resource for people who recognize that streets can and must do more than convey cars. I get to see Chico's Esplanade everyday. Others will have to be satisfied with the book's wonderful treatment the Esplanade gets along side its big brothers in Barcelona and Paris.

terrific source book for urban designers.......2003-07-12

This is such an interesting book. Boulevards have been neglected for several generations because they somehow didn't fit into the vocabulary used by traffic engineers. But thanks to Allan and Elizabeth, we know that they are extremely efficient ways of carrying traffic and creating safe pewdestrian environments and that they creat beautiful cities. Look at Paris, Barcelona, Melbourne and even Chico!
Really nice drawings. The book is a delight top behold.

A Nice Companion to Great Streets.......2002-03-02

This book belongs in the library of people who enjoyed GREAT STREETS by Allan Jacobs, et al, or anyone who designs modern streets. The authors have researched boulevards extensively, including their safety and utility.

If you are interested in the topic, a video is available about the authors' research from the Institute of Urban and Regional Development of the University of California at Berkeley -- 510-642-5233. It believe it is called, "Boulevards: Great Streets for Great Cities."

Good Book - but some criticism.......2002-02-05

This is simply an interesting book. I love the descriptions and the drawings. I understand the author's enthusiasm for great streets and boulevards. Much of what makes these great is the atmosphere (shops, restaurants, pedestrians, bustling activity). I agree. However, this book as well as many other publications out there regarding streets, traffic calming, automobile dependance,etc all seem to forget that streets are primarily for cars. The author is worried about the survival of one of the Spanish boulevards due to its emphasis on carrying traffic.

Don't misunderstand me here. I'm all for traffic calming, neghborhood traffic management, cozy streets with many pedestrians, sidewalk cafes, and reducing the dependance on automobiles. As a traffic engineer, I need to consider what the streets are built for. The priority for some roadways is to move traffic, while others should accommodate vehicles, pedestrians, bicycles, and a great atmosphere while maintaining safety. I feel many books, such as this one, expose us to great examples and ideas, but unfairly use traffic engineers as scapegoats for urban sprawl and the destruction of our urban landscape. Believe it or not, but some traffic engineers consider qualitative design aspects besides quantitative design aspects.

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This digital document is an article from Planning, published by American Planning Association on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 451 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards. (Planners Library).(Brief Article) (book review)
Author: Harold Henderson
Publication: Planning (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: American Planning Association
Volume: 68 Issue: 1 Page: 42(2)

Article Type: Brief Article, Book Review

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The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards. (Urban form and Design).(Book Review): An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association

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The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards. (Urban form and Design).(Book Review): An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association
Liette Gilbert
Manufacturer: American Planning Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Journal of the American Planning Association, published by American Planning Association on September 22, 2002. The length of the article is 618 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards. (Urban form and Design).(Book Review)
Author: Liette Gilbert
Publication: Journal of the American Planning Association (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2002
Publisher: American Planning Association
Volume: 68 Issue: 4 Page: 455(1)

Article Type: Book Review

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An indispensable, step-by-step guide to drawing a wide variety of Celtic designs - for artists and crafters working in all media.

Starting with an illustrated introduction to the Celts and the development of Celtic design, the author places the book's designs into their historical context.

The following chapters examine each of the main Celtic patterns in turn: knots, spirals, key patterns, animals and beasts, and Celtic lettering. Each chapter opens with a large colour illustration to inspire readers in ways of incorporating the design into their own work. This is followed by a short introduction to the range of patterns that fall into this design category, along with photos of Celtic artefacts. The rest of the chapter consists of 16 design pages, each containing a specially commissioned step-by-step artwork for readers to follow. Beautiful to look at, and exquisitely executed in themselves, each artwork has been carefully constructed so that readers can follow its build up from start to finish with no possibility of error. The chapter on Celtic lettering contains a specially commissioned double-page artwork of the Celtic alphabet for readers to copy, and is followed by instructions on how to embellish each of the letter forms in Celtic styles.

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MUY BUENOS DISEÑOS.......2007-09-13

MARAVILLOSO LIBRO Y UNA GRAN VARIEDAD DE DISEÑOS PARA CREAR UNA SUPER OBRA DE ARTE

A great addition to Celtic design!!.......2004-01-03

This is a handsome volume with not just exciting step by step guides to drawing Celtic designs but also some wonderful photographs of carvings, illustrated manuscripts, etc., and fascinating text by David James of the history of the Celts and their art. I've never seen a book quite like this - it really gives one an incentive to try the knots, spirals, birds and other designs. Vitor Gonzalez' art work is always magnificent.

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Inspirational, but limited

an honest and delicate look at mexico

Mexico uncovered

Henri Cartier-Bresson: Mexican Notebooks 1934-1964
Henri Cartier-Bresson , and Cartier-Bresson Bresson
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 050054199X

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Inspirational, but limited.......2002-06-27

This collection of photographs from the author's two visits to Mexico are quite striking. Cartier-Bresson knows his craft well, and yet I feel a slight disappointment in the book, as I had hoped that his range of subject matter would be a little more varied, and perhaps show a few more pictures of the countryside. This collection of photos is nice, but consists mostly of shots of a sociological nature, from the poor classes of Mexican society. I understand that this is Cartier-Bresson's personal photo essay, but perhaps he could have widened his scope of Mexico to have included a wider array of subject matter. I do like the pictures, there just should have been more of a variance of them. If you like Cartier-Bresson, his book of India is simply fantastic.

an honest and delicate look at mexico.......2001-10-20

this is a very touching and intimate look at everyday life, but Cartier-Brenson's experienced eye has also captured the powerful light that alludes to heat, the mood of poverty, and the history that pervades this country. At different points this volume is disturbing, humorous, spiritual, and abstract. a masterpiece.

Mexico uncovered.......1999-04-26

There is a consistant light which runs through Cartier-Bresson's work. It is the late afternoon light or the early morning glow, that enters his leica. We see it in the streets, behind the waitress in the Mexican bar as she leans unknowingly towards Cartier-Bresson's lens. It's surrounded by this light that Cartier-Bresson feels most at home, even in Mexico. Mexican notebooks is full of all Cartier-Bresson's hallmarks; real people in real situations. Circumstance and the click of his shutter fixes them in their descisive moment. This is a collection no photojournalist should be without.

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KING HELL PRESS proudly announces the first paperback Rare Bit Fiends Collected Edition! RABID EYE: THE DREAM ART OF RICK VEITCH concentrates The World's Most overworked cartoonist's chaotically complex uncorking of the collective unconscious in a single crypto-autobiographical collection of comics! Downloading this juicy gigabit of the Roarin' one's dream life, as recorded in the first eight issues of RARE BIT FIENDS, takes readers on a multidimensional mind-mulching roller coaster ride of panel art after which they'll never think of dreaming (or comics) in quite the same way again! Also included is the absolutely essential UNDERSTANDING RARE BIT FIENDS from Issue #12; an enlightening explanatory trip through the history, science and magic of dreaming as well as Veitch's unique and personal perspective on the nature and importance of the dream function.

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Buy this book! Help save comics!.......2000-01-19

Rick Veitch is one of the most talented writer/artists in the comic book field. Rabid Eye offers a surreal look into the mind of this unique individual. The biggest downfall of this collection is the lack of the beautiful covers from the original serial editions. It's a shame that the collapse of the direct market forced this magnificent book off the market. If you're interested in dream-work, or if you just love good comics, read this book. Perhaps high sales for this and other great comics will convince the publishers and retailers that comics are worth selling. If you enjoy this book, then I suggest searching Amazon for other great books with the following keywords: Alan Moore, Gaiman, Sim, Cerebus, Watchmen, Bissette and McCloud

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A compelling, must-have book.......2005-07-28

Al Aronowitz's Bob Dylan and The Beatles is a compelling, insightful read by one of music journalism's best, most informed writers. Aronowitz takes us inside the music, minds and era that spawned Dylan, the Beatles and others. A must-have book for fans and industry insiders alike.

BLACK (listed journalist) CROWS.......2004-10-21

Interesting that no one has reviewed this book considering it is one of the most intimate/intimidating chronicles of rock music and culture in a time when Rock SHOCKED rather than Schlocked. Aronowitz writes in a style that often recons the best stream-of-(barely)-conscious meanderings of the stooges, the three stooges, bobbie dylan,dylan thomas and a drug-addled Thomas the Train. He always stayed wide eyed and optimistic that rock music could change the world. He was wrong. The world changed rock music but I, for one, will forever cherish the universe Aronowitz inhabited. I'll be putting this up on the shelf right next to Richard Meltzer's "Aesthetics of Rock" and my dog-eared issues of early Crawdaddy and Creem. Hopefully someday my son Gram (as in Parsons) will read these books and mags and realize there was a time when time was on our side.

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Stan Bowles was one of the greatest players of the golden age of English football, the 1970s. But like many of his contemporaries, he was probably as famous for his exploits in the bar or at the race track. Packed with irreverent and entertaining anecdotes, the book covers the ups and downs of Bowles' career, his childhood in Manchester, his early days at Man City, his heyday at QPR, and the unhappier times at Forest and Leyton Orient. A candid, and frequently hilarious tale of a life at the bar with the cream of 1970s British football, Stan Bowles: The Autobiography is an unflinching account of Stan's struggles and successes.

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Stan Bowles
Stan Bowles
Manufacturer: ORION PAPERBACKS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K1QKZI

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Very disappointing...

Great for stay at home moms

Mama's World: Essays from the Inside Out
Tiffany Palisi
Manufacturer: Hats Off Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Tiffany Palisi, the force behind Loving Mama: Essays on Natural Parenthood and Mothering, writes in this second collection of essays about the struggle to make parenting choices heard. Her decision to become a stay-at-home mom resulted from a miscarriage that changed the course of her life, and she examines one of the most basic roles a human can fulfill, motherhood, as the nexus of decisions facing women today.

"The truth is," she writes, "something about being a stay-at-home makes the job seem at once both luxurious and trite." These essays chronicle the life that her decision gave her. Through the eyes of one stay-at-home mother, she reestablishes motherhood as rewarding work—even without the 401(k) plans, the company of colleagues, or medical benefits—and expresses her choice not as an interruption in her life, but as a celebration of it.

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Very disappointing..........2005-01-28

As a stay-at-home mother of a 3 and 5 year-old, I was repulsed by many of the passages of this book. In the beginning of the book, the author/mother states that by staying home she is giving up on the luxuries that accompany a 2nd income. Yet, many times she relates how she receives packages weekly from her on-line shopping forays, as well as the many outfits she buys in order to find one to match her image and life-style, as well as her $250 (organic food) grocery bill. Seems like she didn't give up many luxuries...that is such a turn-off to those of us who actually did! I thought this book was a depressing comment on the materialistic nature of so many people today. I always read books through to the end, but this one I couldn't even finish!!

Great for stay at home moms.......2004-07-04

I just finished reading this book. It isn't too long so it went by fast, but I enjoyed every moment of reading it. This is cool because it talks about the real side of being a mom at home, and includes all the funny and difficult moments involved with mothering full-time. If you are a stay at home mom, you will love this book. Actually, most moms, even those who work, will enjoy it. The only thing is that the author could make working moms feel bad because she talks about never leaving her child with anyone else because she feels it's the moms job to mother. So if you work and can get past that, it's a pretty cool little book. Also, I like that she writes how her son speaks phonetically so you can almost hear him. She talks about moms clubs, holidays, and everyday happenings like supermarket shopping as if it is an adventure. (With little kids, I guess it is!) It's compiled of short stories so you can keep it in your purse and read one story at a time while waiting to pick up the kids at school or before going to bed.

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Yes, men died here too!!.......2005-04-20

While Vietnam held the print and broadcast headlines, there was another place in this world where American soldiers lived and died. That place was Korea in the 1960's. The war that never ended. Men of the 2nd and 7th Divisions guarded an 18 mile strip of what was called the Demilitarized Zone(DMZ). With gaurd posts near the middle of the DMZ, daily patrols in the DMZ and another line of defence at the Southern end of the DMZ, these American soldiers attempted to keep North Koreans from infiltrating into South Korea to spy upon, ambush and assasinate Americans and South Koreans.

The North Koreans also ambushed our patrols and tried to infiltrate our defensive outposts and lines. Dozens of Americans were casualties, but most are only known to their friends and families. For this low intensity conflict did not warrant much publicity. This book is one of three fictional accounts of that time. Although I did not do what these men did, I was there. Senior Medic(SP5) to Bravo Company, 1st Bn, 23rd Inf, 2nd Infantry Division. I was wounded by friendly fire on 9 July 1969 in the DMZ.

The other novels are by an artillery officer entitled North of the River and by an infantry officer called The Fence-Walker.

For good reviews read those wrtten already. I can add nothing to them, but I can let the reader know that Americans and many South Korean soldiers gave their lives to keep South Korea free.

To read a true account of the period pick up Major Daniel P. Bulger's, War: Low-Intensity Conflict in Korea, 1966 to 1969. It is a Leavenworth Paper, Number 19. He does an excellent job.

Jimmy Carter withdrew the 7th Division during his term as President and no American Unit defends the DMZ today. Part of the 2nd Division still holds precarious positions between Seoul and the DMZ.

War still continues. Excellent account........2002-11-17

Mr. Roskey does a great job of telling the story of an unknown war with unsung heroes. I served in the DMZ in the 80s, and much of what was in this book was what I saw during my time as well. The ground surveillance radars were different models, but we used essentially the same technology and same methods to deal with communist NKPA troops who tried to disrupt the lives of South Koreans. Freedom is not free, and many men paid serious prices for freedom in areas that were not even considered to be "official" battlefields. Yet, the bullets and mortar rounds still flew on both sides of the DMZ, UN combat patrols still engaged the enemy, and many Americans did not go home alive after encounters with a brutal enemy. Mr. Roskey, your book can probably only be understood fully by a DMZ veteran and a radar site GSR troop, but I commend you for writing it. I still have the original paperback I picked up at the Camp Casey PX and cherish it. I will buy the new version, to have another copy too. Please write more on the DMZ - it is not known well nor understood by the general public. It truly is WAR there.

Unfinished Korean War:DMZ 1960's.......2000-03-08

Like the author, Bill Roskey, I was in the Army in Korea in the mid to late 60's. The DMZ was a dangerous and sometimes deadly place during those days. Roskey's book has captured the time and place of an unknown conflict, where 88 American soldiers werer killed and 111 wounded from 1966 to 1969. No one, but the ones who were there and the families of the dead knew what went on there. Roskey also captures the love which infantry soldiers have for their buddies, though none of us would have called it that. At a time when Vietnam was the big story, thousands of America's sons served in Korea, enduring harsh weather, and quick firefights with tough North Korean commandos in the DMZ, so that South Korea could become the economic power it is today. The story of these soldiers needed to be told and Bill Roskey has done so in this book.

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This book explores the nineteenth century roots of globalisation through the activities of the enterprise network created by the Scottish merchant, William Mackinnon. It follows the rise of the family-led business group from its modest origins in Scotland to its transformation into the world's largest maritime and mercantile conglomerate, tracing the history of the various shipping firms within the group - including the British India, Netherlands India and Australasian United companies - and identifies the key factors behind its domination of coastal steamshipping around the Indian Ocean and into the western Pacific. It provides an analysis of the anatomy and dynamics of the enterprise network over time. The book also examines Mackinnon's relationship with the imperial statesman, Sir Henry Bartle Frere, which drew the network into the operations of British 'informal imperialism' in the Persian Gulf, Red Sea and East-Central Africa regions, and eventually to its sponsorship of the ill-fated Imperial British East Africa Company. It breaks new ground in identifying the interplay of personal and business considerations behind Mackinnon's participation in the 'Scramble for Africa' in its combination of maritime history with business history and imperial history to contribute to the current debate over 'gentlemanly capitalism' and British overseas expansion.WINNER OF THE 2004 WADSWORTH PRIZE. JOINT WINNER OF THE 2004 SALTIRE SOCIETY RESEARCH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD. J. FORBES MUNRO is emeritus professor of international economic history, University of Glasgow.

Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William Mackinnon and His Business Network, 1823-1893

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Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William Mackinnon and His Business Network, 1823-1893
J. Forbes Munro
Manufacturer: Boydell & Brewer
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5G2L8

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