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What happens when a city fails to use architecture creatively?

In: Creating Cities/Building Cities

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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.

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  • ., 2017. "What happens when a city fails to use architecture creatively?," Chapters, in: Creating Cities/Building Cities, chapter 10, pages 167-182, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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