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This book deals with one of the current major debates in planning:
how to measure the quality and effectiveness of the output of the
planning process. It deals with issues of defining quality, public
sector management, the use of indicators and the planning process.
Although case study material is drawn on UK practice this topic in
universal and the authors include discussions of international
practice and experience.
This book deals with one of the current major debates in planning:
how to measure the quality and effectiveness of the output of the
planning process. It deals with issues of defining quality, public
sector management, the use of indicators and the planning process.
Although case study material is drawn from UK practice this topic
is universal and the authors include discussions of international
practice and experience.
With design quality of growing importance to the public, consumers,
developers and their clients, and high on the Secretary of State's
agenda, this text makes a practical contribution to improving
design control. Examining the design policies in current
development plans, this research text explains how clear,
comprehensive and effective policies can be researched, written and
implemented. Based on detailed analysis of nearly a quarter of the
new English plans, and detailed case studies of the 25 "best"
plans, the book provides guidance on all aspects of urban design,
architecture, landscape, conservation and design process policies,
and makes recommendations about how policies should be expressed,
organized, implemented and monitored. It makes over 150 specific
recommendations for incorporation into better practice and advice.
Illustrated with over 20 conceptual diagrams, 55 plan extracts and
over 30 tables on plan content, the book provides a reference for
architectural and planning practitioners, design and planning
students and researchers in the field.
This book directly addresses the major planning debate of our time - the delivery and quality of new housing development. As pressure for new housing development in England increases, a widespread desire to improve the design of the resulting residential environments becomes evermore apparent with increasing condemnation of the standard products of the volume housebuilders. In recent years central government has come to accept the need to deliver higher quality living environments, and the important role of the planning system in helping to raise design standards. Housing Design Quality focuses on this role and in particular on how the various policy instruments available to public authorities can be used in a positive manner to deliver higher quality residential developments. eBook available with sample pages: 0203186060
Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design,
this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban
design through a range of the most important classic and
contemporary key texts. Urban design as a form of place making has
become an increasingly significant area of academic endeavour, of
public policy and professional practice. Compiled by the authors of
the best selling Public Places Urban Spaces, this indispensable
guide includes all the crucial definitions and various
understandings of the subject, as well as a practical look at how
to implement urban design that readers will need to refer to time
and time again. Uniquely, the selections of essays that include the
works of Gehl, Jacobs, and Cullen, are presented substantially in
their original form, and the truly accessible dip-in-and-out format
will enable readers to form a deeper, practical understanding of
urban design.
-A simple clear structure based on urban design course structures
-A comprehensive discussion of the field -Well illustrated
throughout with examples, tables and images that explain and
illuminate the text
Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design,
this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban
design through a range of the most important classic and
contemporary key texts. Urban design as a form of place making has
become an increasingly significant area of academic endeavour, of
public policy and professional practice. Compiled by the authors of
the best selling Public Places Urban Spaces, this indispensable
guide includes all the crucial definitions and various
understandings of the subject, as well as a practical look at how
to implement urban design that readers will need to refer to time
and time again. Uniquely, the selections of essays that include the
works of Gehl, Jacobs, and Cullen, are presented substantially in
their original form, and the truly accessible dip-in-and-out format
will enable readers to form a deeper, practical understanding of
urban design.
This book directly addresses the major planning debate of our time
- the delivery and quality of new housing development. As pressure
for new housing development in England increases, a widespread
desire to improve the design of the resulting residential
environments becomes evermore apparent with increasing condemnation
of the standard products of the volume housebuilders. In recent
years central government has come to accept the need to deliver
higher quality living environments, and the important role of the
planning system in helping to raise design standards. Housing
Design Quality focuses on this role and in particular on how the
various policy instruments available to public authorities can be
used in a positive manner to deliver higher quality residential
developments.
Whilst recognising that distinctly different traditions exist
within the study and practice of urban design, this book advances
an interdisciplinary and innovative approach, which is of direct
importance to understanding the urban forms, conditions, practices
and processes. It enthuses and inspires users who are grappling
with urban design research problems, but who need inspiration to
move from idea to methodological approach. Through the work of 32
urban researchers from the arts, sciences and social sciences, it
demonstrates a wide range of problems and approaches and shows how
the diverse range of complementary approaches can come together to
provide a holistic understanding to the design of cities. While
each of the contributors presents a particular approach to
researching the field, sometimes focusing centrally on particular
research methodologies, others cutting across methods, or focusing
on theory, all include discussion of actual research projects to
illustrate their application to 'real world' problems. This book
will be valuable to everyone from the informed undergraduate
student about to embark on their first dissertation, to PhD
students and seasoned researchers immersed in methodological and
conceptual complexity and wishing to compare available and
appropriate methodological paths.
Whilst recognising that distinctly different traditions exist
within the study and practice of urban design, this book advances
an interdisciplinary and innovative approach, which is of direct
importance to understanding the urban forms, conditions, practices
and processes. It enthuses and inspires users who are grappling
with urban design research problems, but who need inspiration to
move from idea to methodological approach. Through the work of 32
urban researchers from the arts, sciences and social sciences, it
demonstrates a wide range of problems and approaches and shows how
the diverse range of complementary approaches can come together to
provide a holistic understanding to the design of cities. While
each of the contributors presents a particular approach to
researching the field, sometimes focusing centrally on particular
research methodologies, others cutting across methods, or focusing
on theory, all include discussion of actual research projects to
illustrate their application to 'real world' problems. This book
will be valuable to everyone from the informed undergraduate
student about to embark on their first dissertation, to PhD
students and seasoned researchers immersed in methodological and
conceptual complexity and wishing to compare available and
appropriate methodological paths.
In recent years it has become common-place to hear claims that
public space in cities across the globe has become the exclusive
preserve of the wealthy and privileged, at the expense of the needs
of wider society. Whether it is the privatization of public space
through commerical developments like shopping malls and business
parks, the gentrification of existing spaces by campaigns against
perceived anti-social behaviour or the increasing domination of
public areas by private transport in the form of the car, the urban
public space is seen as under threat. But are things really that
bad? Has the market really become the sole factor that influences
the treatment of public space? Have the financial and personal
interests of the few really come to dominate those of the many? To
answer these questions Matthew Carmona and Filipa Wunderlich have
carried out a detailed investigation of the modern public spaces of
London, that most global of cities. They have developed a new
typology of public spaces applicable to all cities, a typology that
demonstrates that to properly assess contemporary urban places
means challenging the over-simplification of current critiques.
Global cities are made up of many overlapping public spaces, good
and bad; this book shows how to analyze this complexity, and to
understand it.
In recent years it has become common-place to hear claims that
public space in cities across the globe has become the exclusive
preserve of the wealthy and privileged, at the expense of the needs
of wider society. Whether it is the privatization of public space
through commerical developments like shopping malls and business
parks, the gentrification of existing spaces by campaigns against
perceived anti-social behaviour or the increasing domination of
public areas by private transport in the form of the car, the urban
public space is seen as under threat. But are things really that
bad? Has the market really become the sole factor that influences
the treatment of public space? Have the financial and personal
interests of the few really come to dominate those of the many? To
answer these questions Matthew Carmona and Filipa Wunderlich have
carried out a detailed investigation of the modern public spaces of
London, that most global of cities. They have developed a new
typology of public spaces applicable to all cities, a typology that
demonstrates that to properly assess contemporary urban places
means challenging the over-simplification of current critiques.
Global cities are made up of many overlapping public spaces, good
and bad; this book shows how to analyze this complexity, and to
understand it.
This book examines the design policies in current development
plans. With design quality of growing importance to the public,
consumers, developers and their clients, and high on the Secretary
of State's agenda, this book makes an important practical
contribution to improving design control. With the increasing
importance attached to district-wide development plan policies
since 1991, local planning authorities and community groups have an
important opportunity to improve their control over the built
environment. This research text explains how clear, comprehensive
and effective policies can be researched, written and implemented.
In both the UK and the US there is a sense of dissatisfaction and
pessimism about the state of urban environments, particularly with
the quality of everyday public spaces. Explanations for this have
emphasized the poor quality of design that characterizes many new
public spaces; spaces that are dominated by parking, roads
infrastructure, introspective buildings, a lack of enclosure and a
poor sense of place, and which in different ways for different
groups are too often exclusionary. Yet many well designed public
spaces have also experienced decline and neglect, as the services
and activities upon which the continuing quality of those spaces
have been subject to the same constraints and pressures for change
as public services in general. These issues touch upon the daily
management of public space, that is, the coordination of the many
different activities that constantly define and redefine the
characteristics and quality of public space. This book draws on
three empirical projects to examine the questions of public space
management on an international stage. They are set within a context
of theoretical debates about public space, its history,
contemporary patterns of use and changing nature in western
society, and about the new management approaches that are
increasingly being adopted.
-A simple clear structure based on urban design course structures
-A comprehensive discussion of the field -Well illustrated
throughout with examples, tables and images that explain and
illuminate the text
Design Governance focuses on how we design the built environment
where most of us live, work, and play and the role of government in
that process. To do so, it draws on the experience of the
Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), a
decade-long, globally unique experiment in the governance of
design. This book theorises design governance as an arm and
aspiration of the state; tells the story of CABE, warts and all,
and what came before and after; unpacks CABE's 'informal' toolbox:
its methods and processes of design governance; and reflects on the
effectiveness and legitimacy of design as a tool of modern-day
government. The result is a new set of concepts through which to
understand the governance of design as a distinct and important
sub-field of urban design.
The opening of the economy to external markets has brought about
the re assessment of the significance of large spatial
agglo--merations and the accentuation of polarization at national
scale. The dual movement of centralization and de-concentration
proces--ses, inwards and outwards, contributes to urban sprawl
beyond the limits of metropolitan areas, as has been demonstrated
in Shang--hai, Jakarta, Delta Metropolis, Mexico City, Sao Paolo
and Santia--go. lts consequences for urban structure and urban
morphology are immense and complex, and it has fostered social
fragmentati--on of space, changing location opportunities, land
uses and centra--lities. The importance of transport and
communication is accentua--ted, large intra and inter urban
connectivity are generated together with the generation of
articulated networks, corridors, nodes with impact in land values.
New lifestyles, new urban environments and new form of governance
emerge and need to be theoretically and empirically underpinned.
Design Governance focuses on how we design the built environment
where most of us live, work, and play and the role of government in
that process. To do so, it draws on the experience of the
Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), a
decade-long, globally unique experiment in the governance of
design. This book theorises design governance as an arm and
aspiration of the state; tells the story of CABE, warts and all,
and what came before and after; unpacks CABE's 'informal' toolbox:
its methods and processes of design governance; and reflects on the
effectiveness and legitimacy of design as a tool of modern-day
government. The result is a new set of concepts through which to
understand the governance of design as a distinct and important
sub-field of urban design.
In both the UK and the US there is a sense of dissatisfaction and
pessimism about the state of urban environments, particularly with
the quality of everyday public spaces. Explanations for this have
emphasized the poor quality of design that characterizes many new
public spaces; spaces that are dominated by parking, roads
infrastructure, introspective buildings, a lack of enclosure and a
poor sense of place, and which in different ways for different
groups are too often exclusionary. Yet many well designed public
spaces have also experienced decline and neglect, as the services
and activities upon which the continuing quality of those spaces
have been subject to the same constraints and pressures for change
as public services in general. These issues touch upon the daily
management of public space, that is, the coordination of the many
different activities that constantly define and redefine the
characteristics and quality of public space. This book draws on
three empirical projects to examine the questions of public space
management on an international stage. They are set within a context
of theoretical debates about public space, its history,
contemporary patterns of use and changing nature in western
society, and about the new management approaches that are
increasingly being adopted.
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