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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Designing the Global City
    sub title: Design Excellence, Competitions and the Remaking of Central Sydney
  name:
    name part: Freestone, Robert.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: Davison, Gethin.
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: Hu, Richard.
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXII, 353 p. 72 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by Robert Freestone, Gethin Davison, Richard Hu.
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, Urban
  subject:
    topic: Urban planning
  subject:
    topic: City planning
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
  subject:
    topic: Urban Studies/Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Urbanism
  subject:
    topic: Cities, Countries, Regions
  classification: HT101-395
  classification: 307.76
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9789811320569
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2056-9
  record info:
    record creation date: 181211
    record change date: 20191025062023.0
    record identifier: 978-981-13-2056-9