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Urban Design Governance

Carmona, Matthew; Bento, João; Gabrieli, Tommaso; (2023) Urban Design Governance. [Book]. UCL Press: London, UK. Green open access

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Abstract

Urban Design Governance takes a deep dive into the governance of urban design around Europe. It examines interventions in the means and processes of designing the built environment as devised by public authorities and other stakeholders across the continent. In particular, the focus is on the use of soft powers and allied financial mechanisms to influence design quality in the public interest. In doing so, the book traces the scope, use and effectiveness of the range of informal (non-regulatory) urban design governance tools that governments, municipalities and others have at their disposal. Developed from the Urban Maestro project, a joint initiative of the United Nations Human Settlement programme (UN-Habitat), UCL and the Brussels Bouwmeester Maître Architecte (BMA), Urban Design Governance offers the first panorama of informal urban design governance tools from across Europe, and places the tools within a theoretical and analytical framework with the potential to be applied locally and internationally. Last, the book discusses and reveals the essential pre-requisites for the effective governance of urban design. Governments everywhere are increasingly seeing these sorts of tools as part of a necessary investment in delivering the high-quality built environments that their residents, businesses and investors demand. This book shows how.

Type: Book
Title: Urban Design Governance
ISBN-13: 978-1-80008-425-4
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.14324/111.9781800084254
Language: English
Additional information: This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Carmona, M., Bento, J. and Gabrieli, T. 2023. Urban Design Governance: Soft powers and the European experience. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800084254 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Keywords: urban design, planning, governance, soft powers, architecture, public policy, urban studies
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/10166947
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