Urban Design Downtown: Poetics and Politics of Form

by Tridib Banerjee and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris

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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 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0520209303

ISBN13:9780520209305

Release Date:October 1998

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:382 Pages

Weight:2.85 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 7.4" x 10.3"

Related Subjects

Architecture City Planning & Urban Development History Humanities Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Public Policy Regional Planning Rural

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