Designing the Global City
Design Excellence, Competitions and the Remaking of Central Sydney
Robert Freestone author Gethin Davison author Richard Hu author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Springer Verlag, Singapore
Published:22nd Jan '19
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
“The book is informative and well written. … Well illustrated and amply stocked with diagrams and tables supplementing the narratives, this book is an essential contribution to the comparative literature on urban design. It is certainly an authoritative source for urban designers and public officials interested in improving their cities’ appearance and design. It is also an important argument for the role of public policy and design governance in obtaining excellence in the quality of the built environment … .” (Tridib Banerjee, Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 87 (4), 2021)
ISBN: 9789811320552
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353 pages
1st ed. 2019