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 c
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What Do Design Reviewers Really Do? Understanding Roles Played by Design Reviewers in Daily Practice
What Do Design Reviewers Really Do? Understanding Roles Played by Design Reviewers in Daily Practice
Joongsub Kim
What Do Design Reviewers Really Do? Understanding Roles Played by Design Reviewers in Daily Practice
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Joongsub Kim College of Architecture and Design Lawrence Technological University Southfield, MI, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-05641-4 ISBN 978-3-030-05642-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05642-1
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Preface
In many architecture schools, it is not an exaggeration to state that key decisions often evolve around “design.” In contrast, design review rarely receives attention. When I interviewed a design reviewer in New York, she said that she often had to play the multiple roles of consoler, convener, or facilitator to deal with emotionally distressed residents or developers who are affected by design review decisions. Architecture courses rarely touch on such emotional challenges. One may wonder why understanding or studying emotional stresses, anger, frustration, fear, mistrust, conflict, dispute, interaction, social cohesion, design governance, and politics in the design review process is important. This book attempts to address that question— and more importantly, to investigate the value of design review in the development of a given built environment. This book is based primarily on stories (e.g., firsthand accounts) told by many design reviewers across the USA. This book is a culmination of the generous support, help, and advice of many peo
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