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Title Design for London : experiments in urban thinking / edited by Peter Bishop and Lesley Williams.

Publication Info. London : UCL Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource (260 pages)
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Contents 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 Earth 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
Summary 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.
Subject City planning -- England -- London.
Urban policy -- England -- London.
Politique urbaine -- Angleterre -- Londres.
City planning
Urban policy
England -- London https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJp68ckpMtKGHPFWQrwDMP
Added Author Bishop, Peter, 1953- editor.
Williams, Lesley, 1957- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Bishop, Peter. Design for London : Experiments in urban thinking. London : UCL Press, ©2020 9781787358966
ISBN 9781787358973 (electronic bk.)
1787358976 (electronic bk.)
9781787358942 (electronic bk.)
1787358941 (electronic bk.)
9781787358980 (Kindle ebook)
1787358984
1787358968
9781787358966
9781787358959
178735895X
Standard No. AU@ 000068649349
UKMGB 019973406
AU@ 000068418343
AU@ 000074157387

 
    
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