Escape with Spontaneous Access
Election news got you down? Escape with Spontaneous Access this weekend. It's 50,000 or so mostly non-fiction, yet highly entertaining, words which have essentially nothing to do with national politics.
Spontaneous Access: Reflexions on Designing Cities and Transport by David Levinson is now available at the iBookstore (best for Apple Mac/iPad/iPhone users) or Kindle Editions (everyone else). On sale for only $4.99, it will let you will travel much further than the two gallons of gas it would otherwise buy. To motivate you even more, the first chapter: The City Spontaneous, is available for free. (link below)
Spontaneous Access: Reflexions on Designing Cities and Transport by David Levinson
Table of Contents
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