Urban design downtown
Subtitle: poetics and politics of form
By: Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Tridib Banerjee.
Contributors: Banerjee, Tridib.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: City planning -- California -- Case studies; Central business districts -- California -- Case studies; Urban policy -- California -- Case studies
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.322-344) and index.