| Description |
1 online resource (260 pages) |
| 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 |
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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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
City planning -- England -- London
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Urban policy -- England -- London
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City planning
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Urban policy
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England -- London
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bishop, Peter, 1953- editor.
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Williams, Lesley, 1957- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781787358973 |
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1787358976 |
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9781787358942 |
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1787358941 |
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9781787358980 |
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1787358984 |
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