Quentin Stevens

Activating Urban Waterfronts (eBook, ePUB)

Planning and Design for Inclusive, Engaging and Adaptable Public Spaces

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Activating Urban Waterfronts shows how urban waterfronts can be designed, managed and used in ways that can make them more inclusive, lively and sustainable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000282931
• Artikelnr.: 60431228

Autorenporträt

Quentin Stevens is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Urban Design at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He has professional degrees in Architecture and Urban Planning and previous taught at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. He has published widely on the social uses of public spaces, including the books Transforming Urban Waterfronts: Fixity and Flow, The Ludic City, and Loose Space. His current areas of research interest include temporary and tactical urbanism, the contribution that public space design makes to social cohesion, and the role of memorials in national identity.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1: Plugging the Waterfront into the City
1. Three 'Southbanks'
2. Postcolonial Waterfronts: Global Imagery and Local Realities
Quentin Stevens, Marek Kozlowski and Norsidah Ujang
3. Tracing the Shifting Waterfront
4. Artificial Waterfronts
Part 2: Switching the Waterfront On
5. Appropriating the Spectacle
Quentin Stevens and Kim Dovey
6. The 'City Beach' as a New Waterfront Development Model
7. Post-Fordist Placemaking
Quentin Stevens and Mhairi Ambler
8. Sandpit Urbanism
9. A Temporary Waterfront: Prompting Public Engagement
Jacob Mikkelsen, Quentin Stevens, Catherine Hills and Florian 'Floyd'
Mueller
Conclusion