| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 244 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge research in planning and urban design |
|
Routledge research in planning and urban design.
|
| Summary |
Housing is an essential, but complex, product, so complex that professionals involved in its production, namely, architects, real estate developers and urban planners, have difficulty agreeing on good housing outcomes. Less-than-optimal solutions that have resulted from a too narrow focus on one discipline over others are familiar: high design that is costly to build that makes little contribution to the public realm, highly profitable but seemingly identical cookie-cutter dwellings with no sense of place and well-planned neighborhoods full of generically designed, unmarketable product types. Differing roles, languages and criteria for success shape these perspectives, which, in turn, influence attitudes about housing regulation. Real estate developers, for example, prefer projects that can be built as-of-right or by-right, meaning that they can be approved quickly because they meet all current planning, zoning and building code requirements. Design-focused projects, heretofore by-design, by contrast, often require time to challenge existing regulatory codes, pursuing discretionary modifications meant to maximize design innovation and development potential. Meanwhile, urban planners work to establish and mediate the threshold between by-right and by-design processes by setting housing standards and determining appropriate housing policy. But just what is the right line between by-right and by-design? By-Right, By-Design provides a historical perspective, conceptual frameworks and practical strategies that cross and connect the diverse professions involved in housing production. The heart of the book is a set of six cross-disciplinary comparative case studies, each examining a significant Los Angeles housing design precedent approved by-variance and its associated development type approved as of right. Each comparison tells a different story about the often-hidden relationships among the three primary disciplines shaping the built environment, some of which uphold, and others of which transgress, conventional disciplinary stereotypes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Liz Falletta (Master of Architecture, Southern California Institute of Architecture; Master of Real Estate Development, University of Southern California [USC]) teachesarchitectural and urban design at USC's Price School of Public Policy. Her courses focus on design as an interdisciplinary activity and explore how the intersecting values of architecture, urban planning and real estate development can inform the design process and improve design outcomes. She is a licensed architect in the State of California, a member of the California Planning Roundtable and the developer of one of Los Angeles' first Small Lot Subdivisions |
|
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 02, 2019) |
| Subject |
Architecture, Domestic -- California -- Los Angeles
|
|
Housing development -- California -- Los Angeles
|
|
Architecture and society -- California -- Los Angeles
|
|
ARCHITECTURE -- Landscape.
|
|
ARCHITECTURE -- Urban & Land Use Planning.
|
|
Architecture and society
|
|
Architecture, Domestic
|
|
Housing development
|
|
California -- Los Angeles
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| LC no. |
2019004073 |
| ISBN |
9781351202510 |
|
1351202510 |
|
9781351202497 |
|
1351202499 |
|
9781351202480 |
|
1351202480 |
|
9781351202503 |
|
1351202502 |
|
