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Title
Designing the Global City : Design Excellence, Competitions and the Remaking of Central Sydney / by Robert Freestone, Gethin Davison, Richard Hu.
ISBN
9789811320569
981132056X
9789811320552 (print)
9811320551
9789811320576 (print)
9811320578
Published
Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxii, 353 pages, 72 illustrations. :) online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-13-2056-9
Call Number
HT101-395
Dewey Decimal Classification
307.76
Summary
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.
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Introduction
Property development, governance and the pursuit of design excellence
Global Sydney: Economy, planning and environment
A pre-history of design excellence in Sydney
City of Sydney?s Competitive Design Policy: Context, genesis and operation
Competitive projects and their design outcomes
Competitions and Excellence: Three case studies
The benefits and drawbacks of mandatory design competitions
Design competitions as public policy
Conclusion.
