Eran-Ben Joseph & Micheal Southworth

"An oddity of urban research is the paucity of books about streets. City streets occupy more than a quarter of the land in most North American cities, literally shape the city, and set the tone for sections of cities. Despite their omnipresence and influence, they are usually treated only slightly less functionally than sewer pipes. A few writers raise their sights to the aesthetic of streets, or lack thereof, or to the social importance of streets. The enduring quality of Michael Southworth and Eran Ben-Joseph's book is that it brings all of those concerns, and more, to one place. Readers learn how streets declined to merely functional status, and how and why their star is now rising."

-Beth Moore Milroy