Donald Appleyard was an urban designer and theorist, teaching at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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Born in England, Appleyard studied first architecture, and later urban planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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. After graduation he taught at MIT for six years,
and later at Berkley. He worked on neighbourhood design in Berkeley

Berkeley, California

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 and Athens

Athens

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 and city wide planning in San Francisco and Ciudad Guayana

Ciudad Guayana

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. He died in Athens in a car accident.

Publications

• The View from the Road, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1964.
• Planning a Pluralistic City, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1967.
• Livable streets, University of California Press, Berkley, 1981