Allan B. Jocobs (Urban Designer) : Submitted To-Ar. Priya Gupta Ar. Pranshi Jain Submitted by - Surbhi Jain

ALLAN B.
JOCOBS
(Urban Designer)
SUBMITTED TO-
AR. PRIYA GUPTA SUBMITTED BY-
AR. PRANSHI JAIN SURBHI JAIN
ABOUT-
 Allan B. Jacobs (born 29 December 1928) is an urban designer, renowned for his
publications and research on urban design.
 His well-known paper "Toward an Urban Design Manifesto", written with
Donald Appleyard, describes how cities should be laid out.
 He worked on planning projects in the City of Pittsburgh and for the
Ford Foundation in Calcutta, India, and spent eight years as Director of the
San Francisco Department of City Planning.
 Jacobs earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Miami University and a
master's degree in city planning from the University of Pennsylvania in 1954. He
then attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
 From 1954 to 1955, Jacobs was studying city planning as a Fulbright Scholar at
University College London.
 Honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Berkeley Citation, and the Kevin
Lynch Award from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
 He is currently a Professor emeritus and a consultant in city planning and urban
design with projects in California, Oregon, and Brazil, among others.
PERSPECTIVES-
 Designing Great Streets
In Great Streets, Jacobs analyzes the qualities of great streets around the world:
buildings of similar height, interesting facades, trees, windows that invite viewing,
intersections, beginnings and endings, stopping places and space for leisurely
walking.
 Multiway Boulevards as Urban Saviours

Throughout his work, Jacobs explains, defends, and celebrates multiway boulevards
- great tree-lined streets with separate realms for through traffic and for slow-paced
vehicular-pedestrian movement. He argues that boulevards could play an important
role in addressing blight by bringing people back into the same places as other
traffic. Although such streets are currently unpopular because of safety and traffic
concerns, Jacob argues that boulevards can respond positively to many issues central
to urban life such as livability, mobility, safety, interest, economic opportunity, mass
transit, and open space.
 Utilizing the Power of Observation
While most modern street planning is based on traffic assumptions and place
speculation, direct observation is the foundation of Jacobs' research. He
encourages planners and designers to study what does and does not work
on existing streets, and to use these observations and examples for better street
design.
 Fostering Interaction between Pedestrians and Cars

Contrary to traditional planning assumptions, Jacobs believes that the
segregation of cars and pedestrians decreases safety and community vitality.
Based on field research and observation, he demonstrates that intersections and
streets that allow every type of movement and interaction between pedestrians
and drivers work best, serving as attractive, welcoming, and exciting places that
help build the local community. According to Jacobs' findings, when cars are
more fully aware of and integrated into the pedestrian realm, both pedestrians
and drivers are safer.
What Are Great Streets
 Alan Jacobs describes a Great Street that is “markedly superior in character or
quality” and people visit frequently.
 contributes to community
 comfortable and safe
 encourages participation
 remembered
 representative of a community
Great Streets Characteristics

 Unique Sense of Place Fig. showing- Fig.
 Balance among various transportation modes state street chicago showing-
 Safe, attractive and economically vibrant streets and 5th AVENUE
public places NY
Functions of Great Streets

 Community Function
 Transportation Function
Great Streets: Community
Functions As Great Street has A Great Street is memorable as
social spaces; they provide a symbolic or ceremonial place
plazas, parks, trees, benches in the city and a venue for
and public art. where people events, parades, fairs and other
can gather, watch other civic events.
people, or meet friends. Community Functions
• Ceremonial / Symbolic
• Social Spaces
• Place of Commerce
• Outdoor Room
A Great Street supports
economic development A Great Street creates an
because it is a place of outdoor room - a place
commerce - where people where buildings and
go to shop, eat or conduct vegetation define the limits
business. of the public realm.
A Great Street functions for A Great Street functions for
public transit – bus, various forms of vehicular
streetcars, LRT, and BRT by movement including
providing space stops, automobiles, trucks and
station and shelters. public transit.
Transportation Functions
• Various forms of Transit
• Vehicular Movement
• Bicycles
• Walking
A Great Street functions for • Parking A Great Street functions
parking, allowing for on- for pedestrians, allowing
street parking. them to walk in a
A Great Street functions for pleasant and safe
bicycles, when practical, environment.
providing lanes and storage
facilities.
Contributing Elements of Great Streets
• Trees
• Diversity : Many buildings rather than
few
• Details: Special design features
• Places: Wide sidewalks, plazas
• Density of People
• Diversity of Land Use
• Parking on the Street
Design Standards and Guidelines
 Components of Great Streets
 Pedestrian Realm
Design Standards and Guidelines
Prototype Design: Major Transit

Corridor
Roadway Realm
Pedestrian (Private) Realm

Notable works-
 The Urban Design Element of the San Francisco General Plan
 Allan Jacobs and Donald Appleyard, Toward an Urban Design Manifesto.
Working Paper published 1982; republished with a prologue in the Journal of
the American Planning Association, 1987.[1]
 Making City Planning Work (1980)
 Looking at Cities (1985)
 Great Streets (1995)
 The Boulevard Book (2003) with Elizabeth MacDonald and Yodan Rofe
 The Good City: Reflections and Imaginations (2011)
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ALLAN B.

 Multiway Boulevards as Urban Saviours

 Fostering Interaction between Pedestrians and Cars

Great Streets Characteristics

Functions of Great Streets

 Components of Great Streets

Prototype Design: Major Transit

Pedestrian (Private) Realm

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