The Best Streets

Victor Dover, in an interview with Project for Public Spaces discusses what makes streets great:

The streets that gave off the best impressions often the ones that had a simple line of the same tree species down the side or center. The most comfortable streets were the narrower streets: small blocks, small streets, grids and webs. A richer network makes for better individual streets, because traffic is dispersed and no one street has to be designed to carry the whole load. That’s not to say that we can’t have wonderful big streets, but whenever possible a narrow street seems to be a positive solution.