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Donald Appleyard
Donald Appleyard (1928-1982) was a scholar whose work focused on city and neighborhood planning, particularly on the ways that sensitive planning and design can make life more pleasant for urban residents. Appleyard taught first at MIT and then at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a professor of urban design [1].
Born in England and trained in city planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Appleyard brought the term “livable streets” to prominence when his 1981 book by that name made the case that streets can be dynamic, social spaces when not clogged with cars. Livable Streets was based on Appleyard’s study, conducted in the late 1960s, of three San Francisco streets that experienced different levels of traffic; he found that people who lived on the least-trafficked street had more social connections with their neighbors and, consequently, a greater sense of community.
Appleyard’s other books, including Planning a Pluralistic City (1967) and Improving the Residential Street Environment (1981) similarly explored the ways that city planners could enhance cities — and the happiness of their residents — by deliberately constructing neighborhoods that brought people together, on streets free from excessive traffic.
Appleyard died in 1982 when he was hit by a car in Athens; he was in Greece to consult on a neighborhood planning project. One of his four children, Bruce Appleyard, is a neighborhood planning activist in Portland, Oregon [3].
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ALSO ON THE LIVABLE STREETS NETWORK
- Traffic's Human Toll (Streetsblog)
REFERENCES
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[1] In Memoriam — Calisphere, UC Berkeley Libraries
[2] Donald Appleyard — The Project for Public Spaces
[3] Bruce Appleyard: Portland, OR — ActiveLiving.org
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FURTHER READING
- Appleyard, Donald. Planning a Pluralistic City, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1967.
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Appleyard, Donald. Livable Streets, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1981.
