Manual for Streets - a decade of challenging design

摘要

It is not often a government engineering and design document makes front page news. Manual for Streets (MfS) was guidance but it was also a different kind of rulebook. Transport minister Gillian Merron described it as 'a working manifesto for better design, better streets and better communities'. The document states: 'Streets should no longer be designed by assuming "place" to be automatically subservient to "movement"'; adding, rather beautifully, that place status denotes significance 'in human terms'.