ABSTRACT
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
part |2 pages
Part I The Governance of Design
chapter 1|27 pages
Design Governance (Why, What, and How—in Theory)
chapter 2|37 pages
The Tools of Design Governance (Formal and Informal)
part |2 pages
Part II Design Governance in England
chapter 3|19 pages
The RFAC and Seventy-Five Years of English Design Review, 1924–1999
chapter 4|36 pages
CABE, a Story of Innovation in the Governance of Design, 1999–2011
chapter 5|19 pages
Design Governance in an Age of Austerity, 2011–2016
part |2 pages
Part III The CABE Toolbox