Featuring publications of relevance to our industry, including those cited in SDS e-newsletter lead articles and suggested additional reading, we’ve recently relaunched the SDS Reader’s Corner book of the month page. Each month we will showcase a suggested read that relates to our professional areas of interest, be it a seminal publication or something more tangential. We hope the books we select will offer you insights and inspiration.
If you any suggestions of books, particularly newly published ones, that you think would be of inte arest to our community, please email us: enquiries@signdesignsociety.co.uk.
For June ’26 we feature Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities & Towns, by John Massengale and Victor Dover (2nd edition, to be published on 18 August ’26, John Wiley & Sons Inc.)
Synopsis
“John Massengale and Victor Dover know how to fix America’s neighbourhoods, cities, and towns: make them walkable again. That begins with great streets where people want to be, streets that are comfortable, safe, interesting, and beautiful. This second edition looks at hundreds of streets old and new, shows us what works and what doesn’t, and reveals the secrets behind designing great streets and walkable places. Revised and expanded, now with full-colour images throughout, this indispensable and transformative guide, the only book of its kind.”
Review
“This book should be required reading in schools of urban design, architecture, and landscape architecture, and an understanding of it should be part of the licensing requirements for civil, traffic, and transportation engineers.”
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, DPZ coDESIGN, former Dean of the School of Architecture, University of Miami
Buy a copy now
As of 01.06.2026, the paperback edition is available to pre-order @£60.95 (RRP) via Bookshop.org.