What Do Design Reviewers Really Do? Understanding Roles Played by Design Reviewers in Daily Practice

verfasst von: Joongsub Kim

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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This book provides an original contribution to the planning and design literature. Not only does it provide a fresh and finely grained examination of the daily challenges and opportunities of design review practice, but it does so in an ethnographically compelling way—through extensive references that convey and show what a distanced researcher could never adequately summarize and paraphrase. Architects, urban designers, and developers will learn about how they might work with design reviewers on the basis of the four significant roles that a design review staff plays frequently in the design review process. Faculty and students in architecture, urban design, and urban planning will learn about design governance, design regulations, design culture, participants, processes, and micropolitics in design and design reviews. There are possibly tens of thousands of design review boards in the United States that review proposals for building designs and site designs submitted by practitioners in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, urban planning, and urban development. Given this considerable professional context, the target audience of this book includes design reviewers, practitioners, scholars, educators, and students in the fields of architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, urban planning, and urban development.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

Chapter 1. Introduction

Abstract

This chapter provides a general description of the rationale for conducting the study and for organizing the book. How did the study come about? What is the overall approach to the study? What research question is asked? What is the hypothesis? Why is the study timely? Why is design review important? What is the purpose of the study? What is the rationale for data collection? What chapters are included and why? These questions will be addressed more generally here, but details will be provided in relevant chapters later.

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Chapter 2. Overview of the Current Status of Design Review

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This chapter aims to discuss salient results of a literature review in the field of design review for the purpose of this study. The discussion introduces readers to the field of design review by focusing on the field’s goals, participants, methods, procedures, practices, standards, policies, and rules. A brief history of design review and several successful sample cases in the United States are included for illustrative purposes.

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Chapter 3. Emerging Themes in the Literature

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This chapter first highlights several important trends and themes running through the pertinent literature. The discussion focuses on five key topics: literature in regulation and design review; process and guidelines; the interrelationship of individuals involved in the process; design review as a larger social expression; and goals and implementation of design review in relation to the reviewer’s roles. Second, the chapter introduces background ideas and emerging concepts for the four hypothesized roles of design reviewers: educator, facilitator, therapist, and convener.

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Chapter 4. Interview Results: The Design Reviewer as Educator

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This chapter discusses the role design reviewers play as educators in the design review process. The design reviewer as an educator focuses on managing complex information with regard to who knows what and when, who does what and when, educates citizens about what is happening in design review and what its purpose is, and how residents can get involved in the process.

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Chapter 5. Interview Results: The Design Reviewer as Facilitator

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This chapter discusses how design reviewers play the role of facilitator in the design review process. The design reviewer as a facilitator focuses on managing complex processes concerning what steps are in place for design review, how the process works, how design reviewers promote collaboration, how they resolve disagreements or conflicts during the process, how they mediate or negotiate, and how they build a group consensus.

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Chapter 6. Interview Results: The Design Reviewer as Therapist

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This chapter discusses how design reviewers act as therapists throughout the design review process. In the role of therapist, the design reviewer focuses on managing interpersonal stresses regarding sensible responses to participants’ emotional challenges in design review, such as anger, frustration, fear, mistrust, and distress. When and how reviewers can use techniques of listening, comforting, consoling, understanding, storytelling, conversation, and positive reinforcement is discussed.

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Chapter 7. Interview Results: The Design Reviewer as Convener

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This chapter discusses how design reviewers play the role of convener during the design review process. As a convener, the design reviewer focuses on the managing process, stress and promoting social encounters. The reviewer provides opportunities for participants to interact with others informally or formally so that different parties can begin to build meaningful working relationships on a long-term basis. In this role, the reviewer also helps to build trust among participants in the design review process.

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Chapter 8. Survey Results

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This chapter discusses the key results of the supplemental surveys conducted on design reviewers. Also highlighted are key trends and themes cutting across the survey outcomes. The findings are organized around the four hypothesized roles of design reviewers to investigate meaningful relationships between the survey results and the four roles, and in order to understand the implications of such connections.

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Chapter 9. Theoretical Underpinnings of the Four Hypothesized Roles

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This chapter investigates what accomplishments and lessons from pertinent literature can tell us about the implications of interview and survey results with respect to design reviewers’ hypothesized roles. Although developing a coherent formal theory of these roles is not a central goal of this book, the chapter explores the theoretical underpinnings that support the roles’ underlying ideas.

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Chapter 10. Conclusion, Implications, Related Paradigms, and Future Research

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This chapter discusses key implications of the study—namely, the planning, urban design, policy, political, educational, and research implications of design review. Using relevant literature, this final chapter examines the impact of design review on, and its inter-relationships with, contemporary urbanisms or urban paradigms, conventional planning goals, and education and pedagogy in planning and urban design, and provides the lessons learned from this study and directions for future research.

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Backmatter

Titel: What Do Design Reviewers Really Do? Understanding Roles Played by Design Reviewers in Daily Practice
verfasst von: Joongsub Kim
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-05642-1
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-05641-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05642-1