Donald Sidney Appleyard (July 26, 1928 to September 23, 1982) was an English American urban designer and theorist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for research demonstrating the relationship between vehicle traffic volume and neighborhood social life; his 1981 book Livable Streets compared three San Francisco streets carrying between 2,000 and 16,000 vehicles daily and found that residents on the low traffic street had roughly twice as many acquaintances as residents on the high traffic street, establishing him as a pioneer in understanding how street design and traffic intensity affect community cohesion and urban livability.
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What books did Donald Appleyard publish?
Four books between 1964 and 1981, the last being Livable Streets.
Appleyard published The View from the Road with MIT Press in 1964, Planning a Pluralistic City with MIT Press in 1967, The Conservation of European Cities with MIT Press in 1979, and Livable Streets with the University of California Press in 1981. With Allan Jacobs he also wrote the paper Toward an Urban Design Manifesto, issued as a working paper in 1982 and republished in the Journal of the American Planning Association in 1987.
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Donald Sidney Appleyard (July 26, 1928, September 23, 1982) was an English-American urban designer
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Donald Sidney Appleyard (July 26, 1928, September 23, 1982) was an English-American urban designer and theorist, teaching at the University of California, Berkeley.
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