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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 350 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520919327
  • 0520919327
  • 0585047804
  • 9780585047805
  • 9780520209305
  • 0520209303
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Urban design downtown.DDC classification:
  • 307.1/216/09794 21
LOC classification:
  • HT167.5.C2 L68 1998eb
Online resources:
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.

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.

"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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