Download or read book A History of Street Networks written by Laurence Aurbach and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey history of urban roadway networks and the origins of sprawling suburban patterns. To improve traffic, various individuals and groups sought to radically remold urban environments. Their city-planning and traffic-engineering efforts are traced from the industrial revolution, to twentieth-century sprawl, to later countermovements.