Urban Design Downtown

Poetics and Politics of Form
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-520-20930-5
Verlag: UCAL POD

Buch, Englisch, 382 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 188 mm x 262 mm, Gewicht: 1311 g

Reihe: University of California Press

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 development decisions.

Following a historical review of the various phases of downtown transformation, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Tridib Banerjee turn to contemporary American downtowns. They examine the phenomenon of public-space privatization, arguing that corporate open spaces are the consumer-oriented result of policies that have promoted downtown renovation and restructuring but at the same time have neglected the cities' existing poverty-stricken cores.

The book's case studies of individual West Coast downtown projects capture the essence of late twentieth-century 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia

Banerjee, Tridib

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Community Care, Bildung, Freizeit, Freiwilligenarbeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Öffentliche Gebäude, Gewerbliche Bauten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The New Downtown
PART ONE: THE EVOLUTION OF DOWNTOWN FORM
1.The Changing Face of Downtown
2.Models of Downtown Design
3.Corporate Production of Downtown Space
PART TWO: THE POLITICS OF DEVELOPMENT
4.The Politics of Place Making
5.The Two Faces of Downtown
Public Life and Space in Transition
PART THREE: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

Notes
Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris is Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Planning at the School of Public Policy and Social Research, University of California, Riverside. Tridib Banerjee is a Professor at the University ofSouthern California's School of Urban Planning and Development. His most recent book, coedited with Michael Southworth, is City Sense and City Design (1990).