Can we extend design governance to the big urban design decisions?

摘要

The first of Matthew Carmona's two papers is a thoughtful and dispassionate discussion of design governance in a wide range of situations (Carmona, 2016). It provides an illuminating way of thinking about a basic urban design question: how do you ensure that an urban design or architectural design concept is actually implemented? Implementation of design at an urban scale may take place over an unknown amount of time, the design's components may go forward on different schedules, and the actual developers and designers for significant parts of the concept may not yet have come forward when the original design is being determined.