This is an introduction to the secrets of Urban Design Management (UDM). The book examines the roles of the players involved in land-use projects and describes good collaborative methods of practice in project-based urban design and planning, putting emphasis on the creative co-operative skills and the wide knowledge of the participants in a working group. The role of the architect is examined in relation to design, planning and project management with particular emphasis on collaboration and negotiation skills. Specific issues considered include:

• The make-up of a good project team
• Ways to make the project team function together
• Objectives and benefits of project-orientated planning
• The need to take local characteristics into account in project-orientated planning
• The preparation required for a co-operative planning process and how initial information can be collected and used
• How to define project content, and outlining the project itself
• Partner-specific strategies

Urban Design Management contains international examples and many diagrams and photographs, making it a useful and accessible guide for all built environment professionals working in the public realm and those studying architecture, urban design and planning at a graduate level.

The book introduces the theory of Urban Design Management. In conventional urban development and planning activities the stakeholders commonly use positional bargaining. This leads to compromises and loss of value that could be distributed among the stakeholders with the help of a mediating architect consultant. Urban Design Management involves mediation among a range of self-interested stakeholders involved in the production of the built environment. Such mediation can encourage a joint search for mutually beneficial outcomes, or Integrative Development. Integrative Development links stakeholders at diverse scales and in multiple contexts. Integrative Development aims to produce more sustainable solutions by increasing stakeholder satisfaction with the process and content of urban development. Urban Design Management is grounded on integrative negotiation theory and case study research. It provides prescriptive advice for city planners, developers, and other key stakeholders, how to practice Integrative Development.

This is an introduction to the secrets of Urban Design Management (UDM). The book examines the roles of the players involved in land-use projects and describes good collaborative methods of practice in project-based urban design and planning, putting emphasis on the creative co-operative skills and the wide knowledge of the participants in a working group. The role of the architect is examined in relation to design, planning and project management with particular emphasis on collaboration and negotiation skills. Specific issues considered include:

• The make-up of a good project team
• Ways to make the project team function together
• Objectives and benefits of project-orientated planning
• The need to take local characteristics into account in project-orientated planning
• The preparation required for a co-operative planning process and how initial information can be collected and used
• How to define project content, and outlining the project itself
• Partner-specific strategies

Urban Design Management contains international examples and many diagrams and photographs, making it a useful and accessible guide for all built environment professionals working in the public realm and those studying architecture, urban design and planning at a graduate level.