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By-Right, By-Design - Housing Development versus Housing Design in Los Angeles (Paperback)
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By-Right, By-Design - Housing Development versus Housing Design in Los Angeles (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
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Housing is an essential, but complex, product, so complex that
professionals involved in its production, namely, architects, real
estate developers and urban planners, have difficulty agreeing on
"good" housing outcomes. Less-than-optimal solutions that have
resulted from a too narrow focus on one discipline over others are
familiar: high design that is costly to build that makes little
contribution to the public realm, highly profitable but seemingly
identical "cookie-cutter" dwellings with no sense of place and
well-planned neighborhoods full of generically designed,
unmarketable product types. Differing roles, languages and criteria
for success shape these perspectives, which, in turn, influence
attitudes about housing regulation. Real estate developers, for
example, prefer projects that can be built "as-of-right" or
"by-right," meaning that they can be approved quickly because they
meet all current planning, zoning and building code requirements.
Design-focused projects, heretofore "by-design," by contrast, often
require time to challenge existing regulatory codes, pursuing
discretionary modifications meant to maximize design innovation and
development potential. Meanwhile, urban planners work to establish
and mediate the threshold between by-right and by-design processes
by setting housing standards and determining appropriate housing
policy. But just what is the right line between "by-right" and
"by-design"? By-Right, By-Design provides a historical perspective,
conceptual frameworks and practical strategies that cross and
connect the diverse professions involved in housing production. The
heart of the book is a set of six cross-disciplinary comparative
case studies, each examining a significant Los Angeles housing
design precedent approved by-variance and its associated
development type approved as of right. Each comparison tells a
different story about the often-hidden relationships among the
three primary disciplines shaping the built environment, some of
which uphold, and others of which transgress, conventional
disciplinary stereotypes.
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