Pursuing design excellence: Urban design governance on Toronto's waterfront

White, Judith

doi:10.1016/j.progress.2015.06.001

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“…-technological effectiveness, with the combination of efficiency of engineering procedure and labor productivity level with cost and quality of the construction products [29]; -constructability, providing the construction project with stability, durability, reliability, etc. ; -predictability when monitoring, diagnostics and assessment of risks of the construction system allows to carry out quickly assessment of the risk level and to exclude defects and failures in it; -predictability when monitoring, diagnostics and assessment of risks of the construction system allows to carry out urgent assessment of the risk level and to exclude defects and failures in it; -harmony when architectural-and-construction structures organically join the surrounding natural [30] as well as cultural-and-social environments; -profitability when financial-and-economic costs minimized according to the calculation for the lifecycle of the construction complex when the created positive economy of impressions, etc.…”

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To the matter of the educated development of the construction industry of recreational territories

2017

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Abstract. Rational creation of the consumer quality of constructions, which is taking into account some cultural, historical and other, accepted for society development paradigms enters to replace mass sustainable development of the industry of a construction in case of development of the recreational territories around megalopolises, using intellectual systems in a construction, ecological, energy-saving technologies in increase in a consumer evaluation of quality. For the residential development of the recreational territories of cities it is important to provide not only complex conditions of their development, to keep their potential for future generations, providing their social-and-economic development, to consider national and climatic features, but also to use their potential opportunities and traditions of the people inhabiting them, rationally and economically. The educated development of the construction industry is the new term entered into the use of constructors, when the consumer quality of building and structures meets national preferences taking into account traditions and advanced achievements in the use of materials, architectural and project decisions, production technologies and climatic opportunities with the minimum damage to the environment. Its accomplishment assumes enhancement and introduction of local-and-standard regulation with implementation of innovative solutions. 1Introduction

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To the matter of the educated development of the construction industry of recreational territories

2017

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“…This practice article has demonstrated how design review can take divergent pathways and avoid some of the pitfalls that researchers and practitioners alike have identified with traditional peer design review panels (e.g. Carmona et al 2017;Punter 2011;White 2016). While this paper does not presume to argue that peer design review panels are without merit as a tool within wider design governance processes, it does endeavour to challenge practitioners and researcher to consider the pre-eminence of the expert panel in favour of less high profile but more methodical process of design engagement that still continue to call on the expertise of design practitioners in a collaborative stakeholder setting.…”

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“…Therefore, if a panel is poorly composed, or does not have a good balance of skills, its effectiveness can be limited. Panels have faced criticism for offering arbitrary advice, behaving capriciously, being swayed by personalities and ego, or becoming unduly political (Lai 1988;Poole 1987;White 2016;Carmona et al 2017). As the design review process tends to give precedence to design expertise, some panels have also been described as anti-democratic (Paterson 2011) and not sufficiently open to public scrutiny.…”

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Beyond design review: collaborating to create well-designed places in Scotland

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2018

Journal of Urban Design

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This paper reflects on the national design advice service in Scotland operated by Architecture & Design Scotland (A&DS) since 2005. It describes how design review in Scotland has evolved from a traditional panel model operating alongside a range of training and skills development functions into a more holistic and dynamic design advice service. The paper argues that the evolution of design review in Scotland signifies an innovative shift away from the combative setting of a design panel, where the force of an argument wins the day, towards a more measured and collaborative process of enabling well-designed buildings and places.

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“…The planning process of the area has been criticized for a lack of public involvement, its discrete, partly privatized governance arrangements, and its generic outcomes (Dovey, 2005), which conforms to the critiques of many other cities' contemporary waterfront regeneration projects (Oakley, 2014;White, 2016;Desfor et al, 2010;Gordon, 1996). While visions of integrating water into the Docklands precinct through canals and programming were presented through plans and visualizations, these master plans were not legally binding, and construction followed loosely-defined plans largely driven by private investment (Dovey, 2005).…”

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