Tiesdell / Adams Urban Design in the Real Estate Development Process

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-4116-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Real Estate Issues

Urban design enables better places to be created for people and isthus seen in Urban Design in the Real Estate DevelopmentProcess as a place-making activity, rather than the applicationof architectural aesthetics. Urban design policy can change the'decision environment' of developers, financiers, designers andother actors in the real estate development process to make themtake place-making more seriously.
This book reports diverse international experience from Europeand North America on the role and significance of urban design inthe real estate development process and explores how higher qualitydevelopment and better places can be achieved through publicpolicy.
The book is focused on four types of policy tool or instrumentthat have been deployed to promote better urban design: those thatseek to shape, regulate or provide stimulus to real estate marketsalong with those aim to build capacity to achieve these. Urbandesign is therefore seen as a form of public policy that seeks tosteer real estate development towards policy-shaped rather thanmarket-led outcomes. The editors set the examples, case studies andevidence from international contributors within a substantivediscussion of the impact of urban design policy tools and actionsin specific development contexts.
Contributions from leading urban design theorists andpractitioners explore how:
* Masterplanning and infrastructure provision encourage highquality design
* Design codes reconcile developers' needs for certainty andflexibility
* Clear policy combined with firm regulation can transformdeveloper behaviour
* Intelligent parcelisation can craft the character of successfulnew urban districts
* Powerful real estates interests can capture regulatoryinitiatives
* Stimulus instruments can encourage good design
* Development competitions need careful management
* Design review can foster developer commitment to designexcellence
* Speculative housebuilders respond in varied ways to thebrownfield design challenge
* Physical-financial models could help in assessing the benefitsof design investment
* Urban design can add value to the benefit of developers andcities as a whole.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tiesdell, Steve

Adams, David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Introduction.
Part II: Information tools.
Market-shaping actions seek to shape real estate markets by providing the general rules-of-the-game, thereby shaping the general context for decision-making.
2. Market structuring actions: e.g. rule-of-law (property rights).
3. Information-provision actions.
e.g. definition and identification ('listing') of 'historic' buildings; definition and identification of conservation areas; good practice notes; plans.
4. Coordination actions: e.g. development plans; regulatory plans; indicative plans (e.g. masterplans; development frameworks; design/development briefs).
5. (Macro) State (public) investment actions e.g. major infrastructure provision (LRT, trams) Part III: Market regulating tools/actions.
Market-regulating actions affect decisions by restricting the set of choices available - either by compelling an activity, prohibiting it or prohibiting aspects of it.
6. Regulatory systems.
e.g. planning/development (zoning, discretionary; separated, integrated); highways; historic preservation.
§ 7. Enforcement actions.
§ 8. Regulatory procedures.
e.g. deregulation; "smart" regulation; streamlining of regulatory systems; sifting applications (fast track for applications submitted by architect).
Part IV: Market stimulating tools/actions.
While regulatory actions generally stop things from happening, market-stimulating actions increase the likelihood of something happening. While regulations put parameters around (and, thereby, constrain) the actor's decision environment, market stimulating actions change the pattern of incentives within the decision environment making some strategies more (or less) advantageous to particular market actors. 9. Direct state actions.
e.g. land sales (with/without conditions attached); infrastructure improvements; land assembly, subdivision and parcelisation.
10. Price-adjusting actions.
e.g. imposition of taxes; tax credits/incentives/breaks (with design strings); subsidies/grants (with design strings).
11. Risk-adjusting actions.
e.g. creation of more secure investment environment (through policy stability, investment actions, place management).
12. Capital-raising actions.
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Part V: Capacity building tools/actions.
Market-shaping, market regulation and market stimulating mechanisms are only as good as the people involved. Thus, while capacity building actions could be regarded simply as further forms of market-shaping or market-stimulating tools but better seen as means of facilitating (better) operation of other urban design tools.13. Developing human capital.
e.g. on-job training; CPD, expert seminars; post-experience/postgraduate education; exposure to good practice, field visits; role models; inspirational "others" (e.g. design champions).
14. Building informal networks.
e.g. cross-disciplinary groups (Urban Design Alliance); job swaps - public-to-private, private-to-public; behavioural economics.
15. Building institutional and organisational capacity.
e.g. Architecture Centres; CABE; A&DS; place management organisations.
16. Changing mindsets and cultures.
e.g. encouraging blue-skies thinking; thinking-outside-the-box; facilitating mindshifts; creativity and idea generation (e.g. through competitions); increasing receptivity to new ideas; changing/challenging images and perceptions of places.
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Part VI : Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Steve Tiesdell, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, UrbanStudies, University of Glasgow
David Adams, Ian Mactaggart Professor of Property andUrban Studies, University of Glasgow