Community design has grown in importance in the public policy agenda over the past decade. This book focuses on the author's experience and work in Minnesota where a design team of architects, planners, and economic and community development practitioners provided planning and design assistance to local communities. The book explores the advantages of a systems approach to community design and uses the work of the Minnesota team to consider the issues involved in the implementation of successful community design.
Community design has grown in importance in the public policy agenda over the past decade. This book focuses on the author's experience and work in...
Muses on the many dimensions of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in downtown St. Louis. Five essays, some of them published previously, consider the relation of the edifice to classical arches, to the westward expansion it celebrates, to the city it occupies, and to the present and future c
Muses on the many dimensions of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in downtown St. Louis. Five essays, some of them published previously, consi...
Like the nation that it symbolizes, the bold arch of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial poses enormous contradictions. It is a simple, classical architectural form constructed with the most sophisticated modern engineering. It is a national historic site created by demolishing nearly forty blocks of historic riverfront buildings. It is the perfect place to examine critical, historic tensions in American culture.
Like the nation that it symbolizes, the bold arch of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial poses enormous contradictions. It is a simple, classica...
