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 designer and theorist, teaching at theUniversity of California, Berkeley.^[1]

Born in England, Appleyard studied first architecture, and laterurban planning at 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 inBerkeley andAthens and citywide planning inSan Francisco andCiudad Guayana. Appleyard gave lectures at over forty universities and acted in a professional capacity in architecture and planning firms in theUnited Kingdom,Italy and theUnited States.^[2] He died in Athens as a consequence of a traffic collision.^[3]

His 1981 bookLivable Streets was described at the time byGrady Clay, the editor of theLandscape Architecture magazine, as "the most thorough and detailed work on urban streets to date".^[1] It contained a comparison of three streets of similarmorphology in 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 research showed that residents of the street with low car traffic volume had twice as many acquaintances as the people living on the street with high car traffic.^[1]

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

In 2009, he was named number 57 of Planetizen's Top 100 Thinkers of all time.^[4]

• The View from the Road, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1964.ISBN 0262010151
• 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 Jacobs and Donald Appleyard. Working Paper published 1982; republished with a prologue in theJournal of the American Planning Association, 1987.^[5]

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

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

• Urban theorists
• MIT School of Architecture and Planning alumni
• 1928 births
• 1982 deaths
• Urban designers
• UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design faculty
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
• Academics from London
• Road incident deaths in Greece
• Sustainable transport pioneers

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