Livable Streets
Encyclopedia
Livable Streets is a 1981 book by Donald Appleyard
in which he shows that street
s have many social and recreational functions that may be severely impaired by high-speed car traffic
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For example, residents of streets with light traffic have, on average, three more friends and twice as many acquaintances as the people on streets with heavy traffic. Also, as the amount of traffic increases, the space people consider to be their "territory" shrinks.
Donald Appleyard
Donald Appleyard was an urban designer and theorist, teaching at the University of California, Berkeley.Born in England, Appleyard studied first architecture, and later urban planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After graduation he taught at MIT for six years,and later at Berkley...
in which he shows that street
Street
A street is a paved public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, but is more often paved with a hard, durable...
s have many social and recreational functions that may be severely impaired by high-speed car traffic
Traffic
Traffic on roads may consist of pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using the public way for purposes of travel...
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For example, residents of streets with light traffic have, on average, three more friends and twice as many acquaintances as the people on streets with heavy traffic. Also, as the amount of traffic increases, the space people consider to be their "territory" shrinks.