Database research record1990·Global
The International City Design Competition: Introduction
Jeffrey E Ollswang
eScholarship (California Digital Library)
Urban Farm DB summary
This introduction to the International City Design Competition outlines a vision to humanize cities by implementing tools over time, including narrowing streets, introducing electric mini-buses or light rail, and bold civic gestures. It proposes using pre-industrial town building principles and strategically building on existing character, with a focus on densification, incremental small-scale infill, domestication of highways, and urban food production.