Urban design governance : soft powers and the European experience /

Urban design governance : soft powers and the European experience /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Carmona, Matthew, author.
Imprint:	London : UCL Press, 2023.
Description:	1 online resource (xxvi, 303 pages) : color illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	City planning -- Europe. City planning -- Economic aspects -- Europe. Civic improvement -- Europe.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13565999

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Other authors / contributors:	Bento, João, author. Gabrieli, Tommaso, author.
ISBN:	9781800084254 1800084250 1800084269 9781800084261 9781800084278 1800084277
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-297) and index.
Summary:	"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."--
Other form:	Print version: 9781800084285 Print version: 1800084269 9781800084261 9781800084278 1800084277

Table of Contents:

Urban design governance in Europe
Exploring European urban design governance
A European typology of tools
Understanding the informal tools
The financial dimension
Interrogating the tools
Landscapes, tools and fundamentals for delivery.