The Bottom-Line Patterns of Urban Street Design

A recent collaboration suggests that we should explicitly recognize historic patterns of pedestrian city settings in contemporary urban design and policies. Historic Cours Mirabeau, a 440m walkable main street in Aix-en-Provence, France Have you ever wondered why some places seem built for automobiles as opposed to humans? In a recent study, J. Alexander Maxwell and fellow researchers from the University of Strathclyde's Urban Design Studies Unit found evidence that before the rise of the automo...