Abstract Street design plays an important role in controlling vehicular speed. This has a direct impact on enhancing the safety of road users and quality environment for residents living adjacent to streets. The increasing accidents every day is worrisome. other adversely affected when drivers travel at high speeds. Speeding also cause noise air pollution, which may negatively community livabil...

THE recent excavation of many ancient sites in Palestine enables us to form a fair, though necessarily an incomplete, conception of the hygienic conditions of ancient times. From the earliest housedwellers down to at least the "Greek" period, the streets and houses of even the most important towns of Palestine resembled those of its modern villages. The streets were very narrow and crooked, lai...

One of the important items of highway information has been, and probably will always be, who should pay how much of the cost of building and maintaining roads and streets. Of similar importance is the question where should we spend the money collected in taxes for highways. Each year the highway officials at every government level have more roads which need to be rebuilt or maintained than avai...

The official opening of the Direct Bournemouth Railway is a good text for a description of that rising West Hants watering-place. Bournemouth has been growing in favour, and competing vigorously with other and older towns over which it has unquestionable advantages, the chief being its comparative newness. Some wateringplaces like Weymouth have had an existence of several generations, and their...

The verdant hills of Casablanca look down on homes and shops jammed chockablock against narrow, twisted streets filled with the odors of spices and dung. Casablanca is a very old city, passed over by Lawrence Durrell perhaps only by a geographical accident as the winepress of love. In the more modern quarter, located on a broad, sunny boulevard, is a building otherwise unremarkable except for a...