This book is a study of design initiatives and policies in five US West Coast cities--Seattle
(including Bellevue), Portland, San Francisco, Irvine and San Diego--all of which have had …

The corporate downtown, with its multitude of social dilemmas and contradictions, is the
focus of this well-illustrated volume. How are downtown projects conceived, scripted …

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 …

The Political Culture of Planning is written for two quite distinct readerships. The main body
of the book synthesizes a mass of information to provide an overview of a complex and …

Urban design theory has been criticised for being incoherent and insubstantial. It is
suggested that this is partly because urban design theory is not robustly based on a fully …

This study explored the notion of 'town character'within the context of one Australian coastal
town from the perspective of the community. Responses from a sample of residents to a set …

Greenfield sites around towns and cities, and redevelopment infill sites in existing urban
areas often become battlegrounds between the conflicting interests of developers and …

This paper develops and discusses some 12 principles for best practice design review
internationally. It seeks to embed these principles in plan making, design policy and …

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 …

With the instigation of new technologies, of many of the sensory qualities in the urban
environment that directly affect quality of life have become measurable. It is argued that a …