Research Catalog

Title

Residential streets / Walter M. Kulash, principal author ; ULI, the Urban Land Institue [and others].

Author

Kulash, Walter M.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : ULI, the Urban Land Institute, ©2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• National Association of Home Builders (U.S.)
• Urban Land Institute.

Description

x, 76 pages : illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

"Updated throughout, the third edition of Residential Streets takes a practical approach to planning and designing streets that is cost effective, and that enhances the livability of subdivisions and master-planned and new urbanist communities. It offers a fresh look at street widths, geometrics, traffic flow, and other design considerations, as well as intersections, drainage systems, and pavement. Solidly endorsed by traffic engineers and in compliance with the requirements of state highway officials, the book provides street designs that can save on land costs, reduce the environmental impacts of runoff, provide a marketing advantage, and win approval. It will be useful to developers, builders, designers, and local officials who wish to create streets in residential communities that encourage walking and bicycling and that discourage speeding by through traffic. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Streets > Design and construction

Note

• "ULI catalog number: R34"--P. ii.
• Previous ed. under title: Residential streets, 1990.
• "This edition ... was developed by the National Association of Home Builders, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Institute of Transportation Engineers, and ULI-the Urban Land Institute"--P. iii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-74) and index.

Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction -- History -- Early Standard Setting -- More Recent Efforts -- Philosophy of Residential Street Design -- Public and Private Streets -- Applications -- Chapter 2. Design Considerations -- Functional Classification System for Streets -- Types of Traffic Flow -- Emergency Vehicle Access -- Traffic Volumes and Residential Dwelling Units -- Neighborhood Access to Adjacent Street System -- Street Layout and Platting -- Principles of Street Layout -- Number of Lanes -- Pavement Widths -- Right-of-Way Widths -- On-Street Parking -- Off-Street Parking -- Alleys -- Design Speed -- Gradients -- Vertical and Horizontal Alignments -- Dead-End Turnarounds -- Shared Driveways -- Streetscape -- Pedestrian and Bicycle Access -- Curb Cut Ramps -- Curbs -- Traffic Calming -- Chapter 3. Intersections -- Geometry of Intersections -- Intersection Angle -- Traffic Circles and Roundabouts -- Intersection Spacing -- Curb Radius -- Vertical Alignment on Intersection Approaches -- Corner Sight Distance -- Chapter 4. Streets as Drainage System -- Closed and Open Systems -- Street and Curb Cross-Sections -- Runoff Amounts -- Criteria for the Spread of Water across Streets -- Flow across Intersections -- Ponding at Low Points in Grade -- Maximum Velocity in Gutters -- Block and Lot Grading -- Cut-and-Fill Embankment Slopes -- Chapter 5. Pavement -- Subgrade -- Base -- Wearing Surface -- Life-Cycle Cost Analysis.

ISBN

• 0874208793
• 9780874208795

LCCN

2001090213

OCLC

• ocm61730747
• 61730747
• SCSB-1489028

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library