What happens when a city fails to use architecture creatively?

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Chapter 10 in Creating Cities/Building Cities, 2017, pp 167-182 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Successful architectural city planning initiatives usually incorporate a set of features such as those we list at the outset of this chapter. Not all cities manage to implement these or other similar features, and their initiative usually comes up short. We examine four such examples in this chapter. In Syracuse, the city leaders lacked the foresight to implement the plan to reconfigure the center of the city. In Detroit, the RenCen was not sufficient, by itself, to revitalize the downtown area, let alone the entire city. The St. Louis Gateway Arch was abandoned by city development that drew activity to the other, western, side of the city. And Rotterdam failed to incorporate into its design the urban life preferences of the residents. In each case, time, resources and opportunities were wasted.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Geography; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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