Designing the Global City Design Excellence, Competitions and the Re
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DESIGNING THE GLOBAL CITY DESIGN EXCELLENCE, COMPETITIONS AND THE REMAKING OF CENTRAL SYDNEY
Designing the Global City “Drawing from multiple interviews, design analysis and case study research this very well-researched and beautifully illustrated volume unpacks the inner-workings of design competitions as tools for design governance. It also details a fascinating account of central Sydney’s built form evolution and the city’s search for global competitiveness through design excellence. A must read for designers, planners, developers, policymakers, and everyone interested in global cities.” —Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Associate Provost for Academic Planning and Professor, Department of Urban Planning, UCLA “This refreshingly thorough account of the role of design competitions in shaping built form acts as a counter to the overheated media coverage of icons and starchitects. With its plentiful first-hand interviews, the book shows how mayors, architects, council planners, and property developers resolve high-profile schemes, and provides a fundamental advance in understanding how the look and shape of the core of major cities are structured within contemporary urban governance frameworks.” —Donald McNeill, Professor of Urban Geography, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University “This carefully researched and engaging book will be of great interest to researchers across urban studies and urban design fields and to practitioners faced with the challenge of how to shape the relentless growth of our global cities in such a way that their place qualities match their very obvious locational ones.” —Matthew Carmona, Professor of Planning and Urban Design, The Bartlett School of Planning, UCL
Robert Freestone • Gethin Davison Richard Hu
Designing the Global City Design Excellence, Competitions and the Remaking of Central Sydney
Robert Freestone UNSW Sydney Sydney, NSW, Australia
Gethin Davison UNSW Sydney Sydney, NSW, Australia
Richard Hu University of Canberra Canberra, ACT, Australia
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