Title: Urban design downtown
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: City planning, Case studies, Central business districts, Urban policy, City planning, united states, Design urbain, Cas, Études de, Centres villes, Politique urbaine, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Regional Planning, Stadsplanning, Kantoren, City (geografie), Stadsplanering, Communities - Urban Groups, Sociology & Social History, Social Sciences
Places: California
LC classification: HT167.5.C2 L68 1998