Why governance will make urban design and planning better: Dealing with the communicative turn in urban planning and design

NUL - New Urban Languages Conference Proceedings: Re-imaging the City after the Knowledge Based Turn, Milan, Italy, 19-21 June 2013 - Designing and planning cities are profoundly political activities. There are no purely value-free or ‘technical’ solutions to urban problems: all decisions in urban development are political decisions insofar they...

Balancing interests, development of a mediation strategy for the spatial planner and designer operating as a mediator in collaborative interest based urban development processes

The role of the Spatial Planner and Designer (SPD) is changing due to changes in the communication among stakeholders of urban development. Increasingly the design is used to communicate conflicting interests among stakeholders which means that the traditional role of the SPD as a ranslator of a program of requirements is shifting towards the...