What do design reviewers really do? : understanding roles played by design reviewers in daily practice

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Introduction (Joongsub Kim)....Pages 1-6 Overview of the Current Status of Design Review (Joongsub Kim)....Pages 7-22 Emerging Themes in the Literature (Joongsub Kim)....Pages 23-37 Interview Results: The Design Reviewer as Educator (Joongsub Kim)....Pages 39-56 Interview Results: The Design Reviewer as Facilitator (Joongsub Kim)....Pages 57-69 Interview Results: The Design Reviewer as Therapist (Joongsub Kim)....Pages 71-84 Interview Results: The Design Reviewer as Convener (Joongsub Kim)....Pages 85-93 Survey Results (Joongsub Kim)....Pages 95-121 Theoretical Underpinnings of the Four Hypothesized Roles (Joongsub Kim)....Pages 123-145 Conclusion, Implications, Related Paradigms, and Future Research (Joongsub Kim)....Pages 147-166 Back Matter ....Pages 167-190