Description
Design Governance focuses on how we design the built environment where most of us live, work, and play and the role of government in that process. To do so, it draws on the experience of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), a decade-long, globally unique experiment in the governance of design. This book theorises design governance as an arm and aspiration of the state; tells the story of CABE, warts and all, and what came before and after; unpacks CABE’s ‘informal’ toolbox: its methods and processes of design governance; and reflects on the effectiveness and legitimacy of design as a tool of modern-day government. The result is a new set of concepts through which to understand the governance of design as a distinct and important sub-field of urban design.
Table of Contents
A personal acknowledgement
FOREWORD: Exploring design governance
PART ONE: THE GOVERNANCE OF DESIGN
Chapter 1. Design governance (why, what and how – in theory)
Chapter 2. The tools of design governance (formal and informal)
PART TWO: NATIONAL DESIGN GOVERANCE IN ENGLAND
Chapter 3. The RFAC and 75 years of English design review, 1924-1999
Chapter 4. CABE, a story of innovation in the governance of design, 1999 to 2011
Chapter 5. Design governance in an age of austerity, 2011-2016
PART THREE: THE CABE TOOLBOX
Chapter 6. The evidence tools
Chapter 7. The knowledge tools
Chapter 8. The promotion tools
Chapter 9. The evaluation tools
Chapter 10. The assistance tools
AFTERWORD: The impact and legitimacy of design governance
Appendix. Research methods
