Urban Design Downtown: Poetics and Politics of Form,New

Urban Design Downtown: Poetics and Politics of Form,New

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The corporate downtown, with its multitude of social dilemmas and contradictions, is the focus of this wellillustrated 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 LoukaitouSideris and Tridib Banerjee turn to contemporary American downtowns. They examine the phenomenon of publicspace privatization, arguing that corporate open spaces are the consumeroriented result of policies that have promoted downtown renovation and restructuring but at the same time have neglected the cities' existing povertystricken cores.The book's case studies of individual West Coast downtown projects capture the essence of late twentiethcentury 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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