Why Great Streets Are Not Enhancements

Street trees, benches, slower speeds, and beautiful proportions are often treated as extras, added only after the “real” engineering work is done. Victor Dover argues that this gets the whole assignment wrong. In this episode, he talks about the second edition of Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns and why great streets have to be designed as places, not just routes. Dover makes the case that beauty belongs in the brief from the beginning, because when a street is designed only for traffic flow, that is all it can ever really become: a place for traffic.

Additional Show Notes

• Victor Dover (LinkedIn)
• Street Design (Book)
• Dover, Kohl, & Partners (Site)
• Chuck Marohn (Substack)

 

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