Urban Design Downtown : Poetics and Politics of Form Hardback
by Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Tridib Banerjee
Hardback
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The corporate downtown, with its multitude of social dilemmas and contradictions, is the focus of this well-illustrated volume.
How are downtown projects conceived, scripted, produced, packaged, and used, and how has all this changed during the twentieth century?
The authors of "Urban Design Downtown" offer a critical appraisal of the emerging appearance of downtown urban form.
They explore both the poetics of design and the politics and economics of development decisions.
Following a historical review of the various phases of downtown transformation, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Tridib Banerjee turn to contemporary American downtowns.
They examine the phenomenon of public-space privatization, arguing that corporate open spaces are the consumer-oriented result of policies that have promoted downtown renovation and restructuring but at the same time have neglected the cities' existing poverty-stricken cores.
The book's case studies of individual West Coast downtown projects capture the essence of late twentieth-century urbanism. This analysis of downtown urban America, which offers extensive insight into the design and development process, will interest architects, city planners, developers, and urban designers everywhere.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:382 pages, 98 b-w photographs, 26 line illustrations, 23 maps, 4 tables
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:19/10/1998
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- ISBN:9780520209305
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:382 pages, 98 b-w photographs, 26 line illustrations, 23 maps, 4 tables
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:19/10/1998
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520209305
