Livable Streets

Livable Streets is a 1981 book by Donald Appleyard in which he shows that streets have many social and recreational functions that may be severely impaired by high-speed car traffic.

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.

External links

• Biography
• Livable Streets Initiative