1st Edition
Placemaking with Tall Buildings A Guide to Ten Key Planning and Design Principles
Introduction: Rethinking Tall Buildings as Civic Agents for Placemaking
1. Enhancing Placemaking by Applying Lynch’s Imageability Theory
2. Fostering Placemaking Through Multiple Interconnected Shorter Buildings
3. Embracing Twin Towers as Catalysts for Placemaking
4. Adopting Contextual Design to Strengthen Placemaking
5. Harnessing Radical Contrast to Advance Placemaking
6. Elevating Placemaking with Structural Expressionism
7. Integrating Vertical Greenery to Promote Sustainability and Placemaking
8. Designing Public Plazas to Enrich Social Life and Strengthen Placemaking
9. Anchoring Placemaking with Thoughtfully Crafted Podiums, Entryways, and Gateways
10. Creating Engaging Interior Spaces to Foster Placemaking
Biography
Kheir Al-Kodmany is an expert in vertical urbanism, sustainable design, GIS, visualization systems, public participation, and crowd management. He is Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC), and previously worked for the Chicago firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM).
