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Designing the Global City

Design Excellence, Competitions and the Remaking of Central Sydney

von: Robert Freestone, Gethin Davison, Richard Hu
96,29 €
Verlag:	Palgrave Macmillan
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	12.12.2018
ISBN/EAN:	9789811320569
Sprache:	englisch

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Titelbeschreibung

<p>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.</p><br><p></p>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction<div><div>2 Property Development, Governance and Design Excellence</div><div>3 Global Sydney: Economy, Planning and Environment<br></div><div>4 A Pre-history of Design Excellence in Sydney<br></div><div><div>5 The City of Sydney’s Competitive Design Policy: Context, Genesis and Operation</div><div>6 Competitive Projects and Their Design Outcomes<br></div>7 Competitions and Excellence: Three Case Studies<br></div><div><div>8 The Benefits and Drawbacks of Mandatory Design Competitions</div><div>9 Design Competitions as Public Policy<br></div><div>10 Conclusion<br></div></div></div></div>

Autorenportrait

<p><b>Robert Freestone</b> is Professor of Planning in the Faculty of Built Environment at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. He has held appointments in the NSW Department of Planning, the Department of Geography at the University of Melbourne, and the Urban Research Program at the Australian National University. His books include <i>Place and Placelessness Revisited</i> (2016) and <i>The Planning Imagination</i> (2014).</p><p><b>Gethin Davison</b> is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Built Environment at UNSW, Australia. He has a background in human geography, planning and urban design, and has previously worked as a planner in local government and private practice. Both his teaching and research are situated at the intersection of planning and urban design, with a focus on issues of governance and social equity.</p><p><b>Richard Hu</b> is Professor of Planning and Urban Design at the University of Canberra, Australia. Heading the Globalization and Cities Research Program, his research cuts across urban design, urban science, and urban policy to investigate issues concerning global cities, urban competitiveness, and sustainable development. </p> <p><br></p>

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<div><div><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p></div></div>

Sonderbeitrag

<p>Considers the link between urban design policy and aesthetics and economic productivity</p><p>Examines key urban policy and design issues in Asia Pacific</p><p>Explores how architectural and urban design values are co-opted by global cities to enhance their economic competitiveness</p>