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Street Precedents

Some streets work, some streets don't.
Jeff Schommer, CharretteCenter
Minneapolis, MN
November, 2003


There are is a small, but growing group of resources on street design. The following list is made up of links to a few of these street design resources.

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StreetSections.com

"StreetSections.com was developed by urban designers and software engineers to provide a web-based research and design tool for street design." (CharretteCenter Inc is involved with this project.)


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GreatStreets.org

The website, Great Streets!, celebrates the renewed interest in street design, and is divided into the following three sections: Main Street Profiles, Elements of Design, and "Right here in River CIty". (CharretteCenter Inc was not involved in this project.)

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PPL - "How to Create Great Streets and Public Spaces"

One hour VHS production highlighting PPS's 11 priciples of creating great places and spaces.

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NYC Streets Renaissance: What Makes A Great Street?

The NYCSR campaign is a growing coalition of community groups, elected officials, business leaders, and concerned citizens from across the five boroughs who are working together to bring long-overdue, common sense improvements to our neighborhood streets.

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Great Streets Urban Design Guiding Principles - Austin, TX

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St. Louis Great Streets Initiative - St. Louis, MO

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Great Streets Project - Bellevue, WA

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Great Streets Program - San Francisco, CA

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Great Streets Initiative - Washington, DC

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PDF: Plan Components | Great Streets - Albuquerque, NM

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Book: The Boulevard Book by Allan Jacobs

"Based on wide research, this book examines the safety of these streets and offers design guidelines..." (CharretteCenter Inc was not involved in this project.)

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Book: Great Streets by Allan Jacobs

"Great Streets compares hundreds of streets around the world to determine the design and other elements that make some of them great. (CharretteCenter Inc was not involved in this project.)



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