Donald Appleyard

Donald Appleyard
Donald Appleyard
Born	(1928-07-26)July 26, 1928 London, England
Died	September 23, 1982(1982-09-23)(aged 54) Athens,Greece
Education	MIT
Occupation(s)	academic, author,City PlanningUrban theorist
Employer(s)	MIT,UC Berkeley
Notable work	Livable Streets
Spouse	Sheila Appleyard
Children	4, includingBruce Appleyard

Donald Sidney Appleyard(July 26, 1928 – September 23, 1982) was an English-Americanurban designerand theorist, teaching at theUniversity of California, Berkeley.

Born in England, Appleyard studied first architecture, and laterurban planningat theMassachusetts Institute of Technology.After graduation, he taught at MIT for six years, and later at theUniversity of California, Berkeley.He worked on neighbourhood design inBerkeleyandAthensand citywide planning inSan FranciscoandCiudad Guayana.Appleyard gave lectures at over forty universities and acted in a professional capacity in architecture and planning firms in theUnited Kingdom,Italyand theUnited States.He died in Athens as a consequence of a traffic collision.

His 1981 bookLivable Streetswas described at the time byGrady Clay,the editor of theLandscape Architecture magazine,as "the most thorough and detailed work on urban streets to date".It contained a comparison of three streets of similarmorphologyin San Francisco, which had different levels of car traffic: one with 2,000 vehicles per day, the others with 8,000 respectively 16,000 vehicles per day. His empirical research demonstrated that residents of the street with low car traffic volume had three times more friends than those living on the street with high car traffic.

Appleyard is co-author withAllan Jacobsof the paper"Toward an Urban Design Manifesto".

In 2009, he was named number 57 of Planetizen's Top 100 Thinkers of all time.

Publications

• The View from the Road,Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1964.ISBN0262010151
• Planning a Pluralistic City,Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1967.
• The Conservation of European Cities,Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1979.
• Livable Streets,University of California Press, Berkeley, 1981
• Toward an Urban Design Manifesto,Allan Jacobsand Donald Appleyard. Working Paper published 1982; republished with a prologue in theJournal of the American Planning Association,1987.

Further reading

• The Writings of Donald Appleyard,in Places, Vol I, Nr.3

External links

• Diagram of social interaction relative to car trafficfromLivable streets,1981
• Exposure of Appleyards findings
• Finding Aid to the Donald Appleyard Papers, 1954-1982, bulk 1966-1982,The Bancroft Library