Urban Design Downtown: Poetics and Politics of Form

Title: Urban Design Downtown: Poetics and Politics of Form Author: Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris Architecture & Design: 1684550 ISBN: 9780520209305 Publisher: University of California Press Published: 1998 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Edition: First Edition Section: Architecture | Urban & Land Use Planning Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders. Publisher 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 economic