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Our street-level economy is undergoing dramatic change. Retailers
are reeling from the rise of e-commerce, rising rents, and
increasing storefront vacancies, along with a cultural shift from
material to experiential consumerism. Today, the COVID-19 pandemic
is contributing to economic upheaval as commercial corridors and
the small businesses they house face sweeping closures, bankruptcy,
and job losses. Streetlife brings together scholars who have been
trying to make sense of the changing retail landscape at street
level and what it means for urbanism's future. Streetlife pays
special attention to the varied responses and policies that have
emerged to address the competing realities of small business loss
and neighbourhood needs. With case studies from the United States,
as well as contributions covering Canada and Europe, this book
demystifies the logic behind street-level urban retail and calls
for better plans, designs, policies, and innovations to bolster
sales. Streetlife shows that now, more than ever before, we need to
understand what makes our storefronts tick, what awaits them, and
what we can do as planners, designers, developers, entrepreneurs,
and policymakers to maintain retail as integral to urban lifestyle.
This book provides the tools to maintain and rebuild the
interaction between architecture and public space. Despite the best
intentions of designers and planners, interactive frontages have
dwindled over the past century in Europe and North America. This
book demonstrates why even our best intentions for interactive
frontages are currently unable to turn a swelling tide of economic
and technological evolution, land consolidation, introversion,
stratification, and contagious decline. It uses these lessons to
offer concrete locational, programming, design, and management
strategies to maximize street-level interaction and trust between
street-level architecture, its inhabitants, and the city. This book
demonstrates that designers, developers, planners, and managers
ultimately have to create the right preconditions for inhabitants
and passersby to bring frontages to life. These preconditions
connect architecture to its urban, social, economical, and
technological context. Only the right frontage in the right
context, with the right design, the right inhabitation, and the
right attitude to the city will become part of the ecosystem of
trust and interaction that supports public life. This book empowers
the many participants in this ecosystem to build, inhabit, and
enjoy truly urbane architecture.
Who shapes our cities? In an age of increasing urban pluralism,
globalization and immigration, decreasing public budgets, and an
ongoing crisis of authority among designers and planners, the urban
environment is shaped by a number of non-traditional stakeholders.
The book surveys the kaleidoscope of views on the agency of
urbanism, providing an overview of the various scholarly debates
and territories that pertain to bottom-up efforts such as everyday
urbanism, DIY urbanism, guerilla urbanism, tactical urbanism, and
lean urbanism. Uniquely, this books seeks connections between the
various movements by curating a range of views on the past,
present, and future of bottom-up urbanism. The contributors also
connect the recent trend of bottom-up efforts in the West with
urban informality in the Global South, drawing parallels and
finding contrast between social and institutional structures across
the globe. The book appeals to urbanists in the widest sense of the
word: those who shape, study, and improve our urban spaces.
This book provides the tools to maintain and rebuild the
interaction between architecture and public space. Despite the best
intentions of designers and planners, interactive frontages have
dwindled over the past century in Europe and North America. This
book demonstrates why even our best intentions for interactive
frontages are currently unable to turn a swelling tide of economic
and technological evolution, land consolidation, introversion,
stratification, and contagious decline. It uses these lessons to
offer concrete locational, programming, design, and management
strategies to maximize street-level interaction and trust between
street-level architecture, its inhabitants, and the city. This book
demonstrates that designers, developers, planners, and managers
ultimately have to create the right preconditions for inhabitants
and passersby to bring frontages to life. These preconditions
connect architecture to its urban, social, economical, and
technological context. Only the right frontage in the right
context, with the right design, the right inhabitation, and the
right attitude to the city will become part of the ecosystem of
trust and interaction that supports public life. This book empowers
the many participants in this ecosystem to build, inhabit, and
enjoy truly urbane architecture.
Our street-level economy is undergoing dramatic change. Retailers
are reeling from the rise of e-commerce, rising rents, and
increasing storefront vacancies, along with a cultural shift from
material to experiential consumerism. Today, the COVID-19 pandemic
is contributing to economic upheaval as commercial corridors and
the small businesses they house face sweeping closures, bankruptcy,
and job losses. Streetlife brings together scholars who have been
trying to make sense of the changing retail landscape at street
level and what it means for urbanism's future. Streetlife pays
special attention to the varied responses and policies that have
emerged to address the competing realities of small business loss
and neighbourhood needs. With case studies from the United States,
as well as contributions covering Canada and Europe, this book
demystifies the logic behind street-level urban retail and calls
for better plans, designs, policies, and innovations to bolster
sales. Streetlife shows that now, more than ever before, we need to
understand what makes our storefronts tick, what awaits them, and
what we can do as planners, designers, developers, entrepreneurs,
and policymakers to maintain retail as integral to urban lifestyle.
Tracing two centuries of rise, fall, and rebirth in the heart of
downtown Detroit. Downtown Detroit is in the midst of an
astonishing rebirth. Its sidewalks have become a dreamland for an
aspiring creative class, filled with shoppers, office workers, and
restaurant-goers. Cranes dot the skyline, replacing the wrecking
balls seen there only a few years ago. But venture a few blocks in
any direction and this liveliness gives way to urban blight, a
nightmare cityscape of crumbling concrete, barbed wire, and debris.
In Dream City, urban designer Conrad Kickert examines the paradoxes
of Detroit's landscape of extremes, arguing that the current
reinvention of downtown is the expression of two centuries of
Detroiters' conflicting hopes and dreams. Kickert demonstrates the
materialization of these dreams with a series of detailed original
morphological maps that trace downtown's rise, fall, and rebirth.
Kickert writes that downtown Detroit has always been different from
other neighborhoods; it grew faster than other parts of the city,
and it declined differently, forced to reinvent itself again and
again. Downtown has been in constant battle with its own
offspring-the automobile and the suburbs the automobile enabled-and
modernized itself though parking attrition and land consolidation.
Dream City is populated by a varied cast of downtown power players,
from a 1920s parking lot baron to the pizza tycoon family and
mortgage billionaire who control downtown's fate today. Even the
most renowned planners and designers have consistently yielded to
those with power, land, and finances to shape downtown. Kickert
thus finds rhyme and rhythm in downtown's contemporary cacophony.
Kickert argues that Detroit's case is extreme but not unique; many
other American cities have seen a similar decline-and many others
may see a similar revitalization.
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