Lance Jay Brown & David Dixon 
Urban Design for an Urban Century [EPUB ebook] 
Shaping More Livable, Equitable, and Resilient Cities

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
Urban Design: A Social and Civic Art ix
Chapter 1 Roots of Western Urban Form: Centralization1
First Cities 1
Rebirth of European Cities: ‘Organic’ Cities of the Late Middle Ages 3
Reintroduction of Classical Learning: ‘Geometric’Cities of the Renaissance 5
The Emergence of Merchant Cities: Integrating Renaissance Ideasand the Marketplace 9
The Grid Reaches the New World 10
The Industrial Revolution 15
Chapter 2 Decentralization: The Rise and Decline of Industrial Cities 31
Proto-Urban Design: Rejecting a Classical Past to Shape an Industrial Future 31
Chapter 3 Recentralization: The Forces Shaping Twenty-First-Century Urbanism 69
New York Stock Exchange Financial District Streetscapes and Security (New York, New York) 71
District of Columbia Streetcar Land Use Study (Washington, D.C.)75
Chicago Decarbonization Plan (Chicago) 79
Fayetteville 2030: Transit City Scenario (Fayetteville, Arkansas) 81
South Coast Rail Economic and Land Use Plan (Massachusetts)88
Citygarden (St. Louis, Missouri) 90
Urban River Visions (Massachusetts) 93
Campus Martius Park (Detroit, Michigan) 95
The Future of Pittsburgh Hillsides (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)98
Emscher Landscape Park (Ruhr Valley, Germany) 108
SW Ecodistrict (Washington, D.C.) 111
Lloyd Crossing Sustainable Urban Design Plan (Portland, Oregon)113
East Baltimore Comprehensive Physical Redevelopment Plan(Baltimore, Maryland) 120
Torre David Informal Settlement (Caracas, Venezuela) 124
Chapter 4 Recentralization: Twenty-First-Century Urbanism Takes Shape 131
Eastward Ho! (Southeast Florida) 134
Charlottesville Commercial Corridor Study (Charlottesville, Virginia) 136
Crystal City Vision Plan 2050 (Arlington, Virginia) 142
Sandy Springs City Center Master Plan (Sandy Springs, Georgia)145
Portland Streetcar (Portland, Oregon) 159
Belmar (Lakewood, Colorado) 169
Bryant Park (New York, New York) 176
Parc André Citröen (Paris, France) 178
Barclays Center (Brooklyn, New York) 181
Discovery Green (Houston, Texas) 185
Cheonggyecheon Stream Daylighting (Seoul, South Korea) 197
LA Live (Los Angeles, California) 200
Marina Barrage (Singapore) 202
Masdar City (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) 204
Hafen City (Hamburg, Germany) 208
Fairmount Line Smart-Growth Corridor (Boston, Massachusetts)214
Ellen Wilson Neighborhood Redevelopment (Washington, D.C.)216
North Wharf Promenade/Jellicoe Street/Silo Park (Auckland, New Zealand) 219
Millennium Park (Chicago, Illinois) 223
The High Line (New York, New York) 225
Parco San Giuliano (Venice, Italy) 227
Swiss Government Plaza (Bern, Switzerland) 230
Tanner Springs Park (Portland, Oregon) 232
Railroad Park (Birmingham, Alabama) 234
Superkilen Park, Nørrebro (Copenhagen, Denmark) 237
Santa Monica Boulevard Master Plan (West Hollywood, California)240
Broadway Boulevard (New York, New York) 243
POPOS: Privately Owned Public Open Spaces (San Francisco, California) 248
Chapter 5 Theories of Urbanism 255
Seaside Town Square and Beachfront Master Plan (Seaside, Florida) 259
Madrid Río (Madrid, Spain) 262
Chapter 6 Urban Design for an Urban Century: Principles, Strategies, and Process 271
Bridge Street Corridor Plan (Dublin, Ohio) 273
National 9/11 Memorial (New York, New York) 289
Afterword 299
Index 301

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.