Design for London : experiments in urban thinking / / edited by Peter Bishop, Lesley Williams

• Pubblicazione: London, England : , : UCL Press, , 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 pages)
• Disciplina: 307.76
• Soggetto topico: Urban policy
• Persona (resp. second.): WilliamsLesley; BishopPeter
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword: Strategies for a Global City -- Foreword: London, a City of Beauty, a City for its citizens -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Urban Interventions in a Time of Rapid Global Change -- 1 London, the unique city: the establishment of the Architecture and Urbanism Unit -- 2 Design for London: an Interesting but Short Life -- 3 High Street Places: Doing a Lot with a Little -- 4 Better Housing for London: How on Eearth did We Pull that Off? -- 5 Peopled Landscapes 6 Opportunism on a Grand Scale: Using the Olympics as a Catalyst for Change -- 7 Selling the Story: Promotion, Publicity and Procurement -- 8 Conclusions -- Index -- Copyright.
• Sommario/riassunto: Design for London critically examines Design for London, the unique experiment in urban planning, design and strategic thinking set up in 2006 by Mayor Ken Livingstone and his Architectural Advisor, Richard Rogers.
• Altri titoli varianti: Design for London
• Titolo autorizzato: Design for London
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910512206603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II