Publisher
Bruner Foundation, Inc
Year Published
1998
Copies
1
Call Number
HT175.S87 1998
ISBN Number
1-890286-01-X
Description
The Rudy Bruner Award seeks to discover and celebrate outstanding urban places, while serving as a forum for debating urban issues and the nature of urban excellence.
The projects presented in this book include the winners from the first four award cycles, in 1987 through 1993. While each of the winners represented innovation and success when they were recognized by the Rudy Bruner Award, time is the ultimate test of viability. As the Award proceeded it therefore became important to ask:
* How have these urban places withstood the test of time?
* How have they evolved in the face of changing circumstances?
* What do these places have to teach us when viewed as a whole?
In order to answer these questions, the Bruner Foundation, with assistance from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, undertook to revisit these finalists. This book documents the findings of those visits, and offers important observations about the challenge of sustaining urban excellence.
The projects presented in this book include the winners from the first four award cycles, in 1987 through 1993. While each of the winners represented innovation and success when they were recognized by the Rudy Bruner Award, time is the ultimate test of viability. As the Award proceeded it therefore became important to ask:
* How have these urban places withstood the test of time?
* How have they evolved in the face of changing circumstances?
* What do these places have to teach us when viewed as a whole?
In order to answer these questions, the Bruner Foundation, with assistance from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, undertook to revisit these finalists. This book documents the findings of those visits, and offers important observations about the challenge of sustaining urban excellence.
Keywords