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An Introduction to Urban Design
Author: Jonathan Barnett
language: en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date: 1982
The author uses his experience as an urban designer in New York City to examine the nature of city planning and how it can improve urban life.
Urban Design
Presents a range of 50 international case studies to demonstrate the variety of urban design efforts. This book enables students and professionals to understand the meaning of urban design, and illustrates how urban design guidelines and processes have been used in a range of projects around the world.
Designing the Global City
This text explores how architectural and urban design values have been co-opted by global cities to enhance their economic competitiveness by creating a superior built environment that is not just aesthetically memorable but more productive and sustainable. It focuses on the experience of central Sydney through its policy commitment to ‘design excellence’ and more particularly to mandatory competitive design processes for major private development. Framed within broader contexts that link it to comparable urban policy and design issues in the Asia-Pacific region and globally, it provides a scholarly but accessible volume that provides a balanced and critical overview of a policy that has changed the design culture, development expectations, public realm and skyline of central Sydney, raising issues surrounding the uneven distribution of benefits and costs, professional practice, representative democracy, and implications of globalization.
