Urban design downtown : poetics and politics of form / Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Tridib Banerjee.

By:

Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia, 1958-

Contributor(s):

Banerjee, Tridib

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520919327
0520919327
0585047804
9780585047805
9780520209305
0520209303

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Urban design downtown.DDC classification:

307.1/216/09794 21

LOC classification:

HT167.5.C2 L68 1998eb

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Contents:

pt. 1. The Evolution of Downtown Form. 1. The Changing Face of Downtown. 2. Models of Downtown Design. 3. Corporate Production of Downtown Space -- pt. 2. The Politics of Development. 4. The Politics of Place Making. 5. The Two Faces of Downtown. 6. Public Life and Space in Transition -- pt. 3. The Poetics of Form. 7. The Poetics of Corporate Open Spaces. 8. One Percent Aesthetics. 9. Theming and Stage Setting: The Story of Production and Promotion. 10. Postmodern Urban Form. Epilogue: Challenges for Downtown Urban Design.

Review: "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 explore the poetics of design and the politics and economics of development decisions, offering a critical appraisal of the emerging appearance and design of downtown urban form."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-344) and index.

"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 explore the poetics of design and the politics and economics of development decisions, offering a critical appraisal of the emerging appearance and design of downtown urban form."--Jacket.