Abstract
The transformation from modern to postmodern design is having a profound effect on the urban fabric of American downtowns. Postmodernism's historical and geographically contextual properties are producing a new landscape furnished with distinctly different buildings, layouts, and land uses. The result is an urban fabric that attempts to reconnect people to place through its architecture, the preservation of historic buildings, the re-emergence of mixed land uses, and connections among developments. Historicism and geographic contextualism need to be better understood, utilized, and promoted by architects, planners, and developers.
- © 1999 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
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