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Urban design downtown : poetics and politics of form / Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Tridib Banerjee.
Fine Arts Library HT167.5.C2 L68 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--California--Case studies.
- City planning.
- Urban policy.
- Central business districts.
- California.
- Central business districts--California--Case studies.
- Urban policy--California--Case studies.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 350 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- This book's case studies of individual West Coast downtown projects capture the essence of late 20th-century urbanism with its multitude of social dilemmas and contradictions. The authors explore both the poetics of design and the politics and economics of development decisions. 98 photos. 26 line illustrations. 23 maps.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-344) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520209303
- OCLC:
- 36675991
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