The Death and Life of Great American CitiesKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1992 - 458 من الصفحات Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and keenly detailed, a monumental work that provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities. |
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... visual in- terruptions where they are insufficient , is on grid streets them- selves . San Francisco is a city with many natural visual interruptions in a gridiron street pattern . San Francisco's streets , in general , are regular ...
... visual interruption . It might be supposed that all this visual emphasis on intensity of street use would be rather overwhelming or even inhuman . But this is not so . Districts with many visual street interruptions do not , in real ...
... visual street interruptions should be , in functional terms , not dead ends , but " corners . " Actual physical cut - offs to foot traffic in particular are destructive in cities . There should always be a way around the visual ...