Real Estate Development, Urban Design and the Tools Approach to Public Policy

Urban Design in the Real Estate Development Process

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-33

  Tiesdell, Steve ^a   Adams, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Development actors; Governance processes; Market regulation; Market shaping; Market stimulus; Opportunity space; Place making; Real estate development; Urban design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871660456     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444341188.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

References (10)

1. This is the production function of public policy-making.
2. The reduction and conflation of urban design to or with project design is characteristic of an architectural or 'Big Architecture' approach to urban design (see Cuthbert 2010).
3. In their book, Nudge, Thaler & Sunstein (2008: 2) use the term 'choice architect', who '... has the responsibility for organising the context in which people make decisions.'
4. Urban design's legitimacy as a professional activity is different from, and thus separate from, architecture. This is challenged by some architects, who regard urban design as a component of architecture that should be practised only by architects. Nonetheless, much urban design and place-making is about governance and requires a distinctly different set of skills from those typically held by the architectural profession.
5. While economists often use regulation to denote all and any form of government intervention in market processes, public policy writers generally adopt a narrower and more specific understanding of regulation, as reflected in this chapter.
6. In the conclusion chapter (14) we consider the notion of 'designer failure'.
7. In some cases, policy actions or mechanisms will be used. Given that surgeons use instruments, while mechanics use tools, the former suggests greater precision and begs the question whether dependent on the precision and impact of their instruments urban design policymakers might be considered surgeons or mechanics.
8. Hood (2008: 129-130) justifies this as '...an application of the classic (and arguably still valid) Marshallian principles that analysis can only progress if we do not allow too many elements to vary at once.'
9. We return to these issues in the concluding chapter.
10. This also means that a policy instrument might be of a different type depending on whom it acts on. Labelling of food packages, for example, is a combination of 'regulation' and 'information'. For the manufacturer, it is a regulation - an obligation to include information on the packaging about the food; for the consumer, it is information about the food contained within the package (Vedung 2007: 37).