Urban Design for an Urban Century

Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, DPACSA, is the principal of Lance Jay Brown Architecture + Urban Design in NYC, Fellow of the Institute for Urban Design, and ACSA Distinguished Professor at the Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY. He was elected 2014 President of the AIA New York Chapter, is co-founder of its Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee, and a founding Board Member of the Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization. He contributed to and co-edited Beyond Zuccotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space (2012) and co-authored The Legacy Project: New Housing New York/Via Verde (2013). In 2007 he was awarded the AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education. He has served as director of the School of Architecture at CCNY, director of the City College Architectural Center, and assistant director for programs at the National Endowment for the Arts.David Dixon, FAIA, is an urban designer who lives and works in Boston. In 2003, as President of the Boston Society of Architects, he organized Myth and Reality, the First National Conference on Density to challenge widely-held negative associations about the concept of urban density. In 2008 he received the American Institute of Architects’ Thomas Jefferson Medal for “a lifetime of... significant achievement in creating...livable neighborhoods, vibrant civic spaces, and vital downtowns”. For more than 20 years he led Goody Clancy’s planning and urban design practice, which earned the American Planning Association’s 2013 Firm Award for Excellence in Planning. In 2014, David joined Stantec to initiate a broadly interdisciplinary practice to support communities in meeting the unprecedented opportunities and challenges of this rapidly evolving urban era.The late Oliver Gillham, AIA, was an architect and city planner, as well as the founder of Gillham & Gander Associates. He was also the coauthor of The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debate.

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction ixUrban Design: A Social and Civic Art ixChapter 1 Roots of Western Urban Form: Centralization 1First Cities 1Rebirth of European Cities: “Organic” Cities of the Late Middle Ages 3Reintroduction of Classical Learning: “Geometric” Cities of the Renaissance 5The Emergence of Merchant Cities: Integrating Renaissance Ideas and the Marketplace 9The Grid Reaches the New World 10The Industrial Revolution 15Chapter 2 Decentralization: The Rise and Decline of Industrial Cities 31Proto-Urban Design: Rejecting a Classical Past to Shape an Industrial Future 31Chapter 3 Recentralization: The Forces Shaping Twenty-First-Century Urbanism 69New York Stock Exchange Financial District Streetscapes and Security (New York, New York) 71District of Columbia Streetcar Land Use Study (Washington, D.C.) 75Chicago Decarbonization Plan (Chicago) 79Fayetteville 2030: Transit City Scenario (Fayetteville, Arkansas) 81South Coast Rail Economic and Land Use Plan (Massachusetts) 88Citygarden (St. Louis, Missouri) 90UrbanRiver Visions (Massachusetts) 93Campus Martius Park (Detroit, Michigan) 95The Future of Pittsburgh Hillsides (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) 98Emscher Landscape Park (Ruhr Valley, Germany) 108SW Ecodistrict (Washington, D.C.) 111Lloyd Crossing Sustainable Urban Design Plan (Portland, Oregon) 113East Baltimore Comprehensive Physical Redevelopment Plan (Baltimore, Maryland) 120Torre David Informal Settlement (Caracas, Venezuela) 124Chapter 4 Recentralization: Twenty-First-Century Urbanism Takes Shape 131Eastward Ho! (Southeast Florida) 134Charlottesville Commercial Corridor Study (Charlottesville, Virginia) 136Crystal City Vision Plan 2050 (Arlington, Virginia) 142Sandy Springs City Center Master Plan (Sandy Springs, Georgia) 145Portland Streetcar (Portland, Oregon) 159Belmar (Lakewood, Colorado) 169Bryant Park (New York, New York) 176Parc André Citröen (Paris, France) 178Barclays Center (Brooklyn, New York) 181Discovery Green (Houston, Texas) 185Cheonggyecheon Stream Daylighting (Seoul, South Korea) 197LA Live (Los Angeles, California) 200Marina Barrage (Singapore) 202Masdar City (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) 204HafenCity (Hamburg, Germany) 208Fairmount Line Smart-Growth Corridor (Boston, Massachusetts) 214Ellen Wilson Neighborhood Redevelopment (Washington, D.C.) 216North Wharf Promenade/Jellicoe Street/Silo Park (Auckland, New Zealand) 219Millennium Park (Chicago, Illinois) 223The High Line (New York, New York) 225Parco San Giuliano (Venice, Italy) 227Swiss Government Plaza (Bern, Switzerland) 230Tanner Springs Park (Portland, Oregon) 232Railroad Park (Birmingham, Alabama) 234Superkilen Park, Nørrebro (Copenhagen, Denmark) 237Santa Monica Boulevard Master Plan (West Hollywood, California) 240Broadway Boulevard (New York, New York) 243POPOS: Privately Owned Public Open Spaces (San Francisco, California) 248Chapter 5 Theories of Urbanism 255Seaside Town Square and Beachfront Master Plan (Seaside, Florida) 259Madrid Río (Madrid, Spain) 262Chapter 6 Urban Design for an Urban Century: Principles, Strategies, and Process 271Bridge Street Corridor Plan (Dublin, Ohio) 273National 9/11 Memorial (New York, New York) 289Afterword 299Index 301