Everyday Streets
Inclusive approaches to understanding and designing streets
Edited by Agustina Martire, Birgit Hausleitner, and Jane Clossick
Everyday streets are both the most used and most undervalued of cities’ public spaces. They are places of social aggregation, bringing together those belonging to different classes, genders, ages, ethnicities and nationalities. They comprise not just the familiar outdoor spaces that we use to move and interact but also urban blocks, interiors, depths and hinterlands, which are integral to their nature and contribute to their vitality. Everyday streets are physically and socially shaped by the lives of the people and things that inhabit them through a reciprocal dance with multiple overlapping temporalities.
The primary focus of this book is an inclusive approach to understanding and designing everyday streets. It offers an analysis of many aspects of everyday streets from cities around the globe. From the regular rectilinear urban blocks of Montreal to the military-regulated narrow alleyways of Naples, and from the resilient market streets of London to the crammed commercial streets of Chennai, the streets in this book were all conceived with a certain level of control.
Everyday Streets is a palimpsest of methods, perspectives and recommendations that together provide a solid understanding of everyday streets, their degree of inclusiveness, and to what extent they could be more inclusive.
Praise for Everyday Streets
'For those looking for useful examples of highly relevant themes related to equality and inclusivity in streets, I recommend this book.'
Rooilijn
'Everyday Streets: Inclusive Approaches to Understanding and Designing Streets is a relevant read for a diverse audience of urban planners, scholars and students of sociology, urban studies, and urban planning. It enriches those fields, by emphasizing the importance of the street as a complex and multivaried analytical category. It contributes both vivid depictions of the many layers of street experience and practical planning tools, that underline the importance of diversity in terms of uses, spaces, and accessibility. Finally, it brings to the forefront the connection between urban design and the concept of the everyday and suggests innovative methods to capture and understand it, reminding the readers that the street is owned and created by and for everyday users.'
Built Environment
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Agustina Martire, Birgit Hausleitner, Jane Clossick
Part 1: The social life of everyday streets
Agustina Martire, Birgit Hausleitner, Jane Clossick
1 The agency of small things: indicators of ownership on the streets of Liverpool and Belfast
David Littlefield
2 Rituals of O’Connell Street: Commemoration, Display and Dissent
Kate Buckley
3 Street Life in Medieval London
James Davis
4 Who owns the street? The cases of Lange Reihe and Steindamm in Hamburg
Bedour Braker
5 Streets after dark: The experiences of women, girls and gender-diverse people
Gill Matthewson, Nicole Kalms, Jess Berry, Gene Bawden
6 A tourist catwalk: the pedestrianisation of Rua das Portas de Santo Antão, Lisbon
Manuel João Ramos
7 The streets that were there are gone … but Sailortown’s stories remain
Agustina Martire, Aisling Madden
Part 2: The form and use of everyday streets
Birgit Hausleitner, Jane Clossick, Agustina Martire
8 Vicoli as forms of proximity: Spanish Quarter; inhabiting a network
Orfina Fatigato
9 Spatial-structural qualities of mixed-use main streets. Two case studies from the Amsterdam metropolitan region
Birgit Hausleitner, Mae-Ling Stuyt
10 Kiruna, lost and found: Identity and memory in the streetspace of the Arctic town
Maria Luna Nobile
11 Foundational economy and polycentricity in the five squares of the pedestrian zone of Favoritenstrasse, Vienna
Sigrid Kroismayr, Andreas Novy
12 Reclaiming streets for people in urban India
Deepti Adlakha
13 Investing in (post-covid) street appeal
Matthew Carmona
Part 3: Localography
Jane Clossick, Agustina Martire, Birgit Hausleitner
14 Learning from Castleblayney: conversation and action in a small Irish town.
Miriam Delaney, Orla Murphy
15 Co-drawing: A design methodology for collective action
Antje Steinmuller, Christopher Falliers
16 An inventory of the street: Case studies from Montréal
Carole Lévesque, Thomas-Bernard Kenniff
17 A walk between disciplines: Listening to the composition of Ormeau Road
Elen Flügge, Timothy Waddell
18 Mapping everyday heritage practices: Tivoli Barber Shop on North Street
Anna Skoura
19 Urban depth and social integration on super-diverse London high streets
Jane Clossick, Rebecca Smink
Conclusions
Jane Clossick, Agustina Martire, Birgit Hausleitner
Index
'Everyday Streets: Inclusive Approaches to Understanding and Designing Streets is a relevant read for a diverse audience of urban planners, scholars and students of sociology, urban studies, and urban planning. It enriches those fields, by emphasizing the importance of the street as a complex and multivaried analytical category. It contributes both vivid depictions of the many layers of street experience and practical planning tools, that underline the importance of diversity in terms of uses, spaces, and accessibility. Finally, it brings to the forefront the connection between urban design and the concept of the everyday and suggests innovative methods to capture and understand it, reminding the readers that the street is owned and created by and for everyday users.'
Built Environment
'For those looking for useful examples of highly relevant themes related to equality and inclusivity in streets, I recommend this book.'
Rooilijn
Format: Paperback
Size: 234 × 156 mm
376 Pages
122 colour illustrations
Copyright: © 2023
ISBN: 9781800084414
Publication: May 25, 2023
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