Description
| Product ID: | 9789811320552 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | SG |
| Title: | Designing the Global City |
| Subtitle: | Design Excellence, Competitions and the Remaking of Central Sydney |
| Authors: | Author: Gethin Davison, Robert Freestone, Richard Hu |
| Page Count: | 353 |
| Subjects: | City and town planning: architectural aspects, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban communities, Sociology, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Urban communities, Sociology, Urban & municipal planning, New South Wales |
| Description: | 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Springer Verlag, Singapore |
| Publisher Name: | Springer Verlag, Singapore |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-01-22 |
