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Allan Jacobs Great Streets is the definitive guide to good street design.

July 16, 2010

Allan Jacobs Great Streets is the definitive guide to good street design. As I'm working my way through it, I'm compelled to find the examples in the book on google streetview to get a closer look and explore the surroundings. The hand drawings and plan-view diagrams in the book are classic, but you can't beat the online tour for detail. Of course, I'm still logging these places away until I actually get a chance to visit some of them in reality.

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Source: Discovering Urbanism

High density neighborhoods in inner areas are as much as 50% more cost efficient than low density outer suburbs neighborhoods on a life cycle cost basis.(Dillon Consulting et. al, 2005)