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October 11, 2005
Save our streets
English Heritage has new stuff on its web site, that is worth reading here.
It announces the publication of regional Save our Streets Manuals that:
"provide practical guidance about visual quality for all involved in managing our streets, in particular, for highways staff in local authorities."
"These manuals give practical advice on how to achieve the sort of quality, coherence and distinctiveness which are central to good street design. In particular, we want to encourage highways engineers to pay attention to what makes each region special, its landscape, its use of local building materials and its traditional detailing."
I have ordered a copy of these manuals. You can also download an interesting Department of Transport leaflet about the history of fingerposts used as directional traffic signs. Apparently thay are making a comeback, and you can see a lovely example from the local past below.
Posted by martin at October 11, 2005 3:09 PM
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