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John Dales: Issue 491 3 Apr 2008

Streets for people; streetscapes for engineers?

John Dales is on the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment's enabling panel and is also the independent design advisor on streets to the city of Edinburgh Council. He is director of transport and movement at urban design consulta

For many years past, the editor of this periodical's mates have organised an annual shindig called the Quality Streetscapes Conference. By my reckoning, this June's event will be the 13th such occasion. However, my purpose this month is not to speculate about whether or for whom this may be unlucky but, rather, to pose the following simple, but leading, question: What does 'streetscape' mean to you?

The reason I ask this is because I think that a great deal of confusion abounds concerning the...

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