An edition of Spontaneous Access: Reflexions on Designing Cities and Transport
(2017)
Spontaneous Access
Reflexions on Designing Cities and Transport
by David M. Levinson
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The idea of the ‘spontaneous city,’ one that serves needs and wants in real-time, is a theme running through both the title and the text. How can we design cities and their networks that enable people to do what they want, when they want? What do we do everyday that hinders our freedom?
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Spontaneous Access: Reflexions on Designing Cities and Transport
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Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The City Spontaneous
The 60-Year Line
Community without dendricity
The pint-of-milk test
The timeless way of building networks
Axioms about roads
Garden streets
Vitality
An archipelago of walkability
Filling in
Leapin’ frogs
The reorganization of road function
Beyond the plan view
Interfaces of freedom
Instruments of control
Shared space
Winter is coming
Diversity as insurance
Differentiate city and country
Don’t confuse the place for the time
Great Britain doesn’t have an Americans with Disabilities Act
Designs serve varied and sometimes conflicting interests
A vision of visions
A faster horse
The Ant and the Grasshopper
Deconstructing Busytown
Spontaneity in a can, spontaneity in a plan
Building the city spontaneous
Framing regional development
First do no harm
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