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Design governance: theorizing an urban design sub-field

Carmona, M; (2016) Design governance: theorizing an urban design sub-field. Journal of Urban Design , 21 (6) pp. 705-730. 10.1080/13574809.2016.1234337. Green open access

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Abstract

This paper introduces and theorizes the practices of design governance: the process of state-sanctioned intervention in the means and processes of designing the built environment in order to shape both processes and outcomes in a defined public interest. The paper is in three parts. The first briefly addresses ‘why’ the public sector should seek to intervene in design, in other words the motivations behind design governance. The second and third parts address respectively the ‘what’ and ‘how’ questions; what is design governance and how does it occur? They do this by dissecting the concept and investigating a number of recurring debates in the literature that reveal key conceptual threads and problematics running through these practices. The result, and the key contribution of this paper, is a new set of concepts through which to understand the governance of design as a distinct and important sub-field of urban design.

Type: Article
Title: Design governance: theorizing an urban design sub-field
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2016.1234337
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2016.1234337
Language: English
Additional information: © 2016 The a uthor(s). Published by i nforma u K l imited, trading as Taylor & f rancis g roup. This is an o pen a ccess article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons a ttribution l icense ( http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1529307
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