Design Standards as Urban Planning
From Technical Specification to Community "Look" in Northeast Illinois Suburbs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2048853 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Rotenberg (DePaul University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 145-164 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2330-4847 • E-ISSN: 2330-4847 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/sea2.12022 |
| OpenAlex | W2157191656 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
Design standards, an urban and municipal branding device that originated as a practice in the United States some two decades ago, have become one of the most powerful place-making forces currently operating in U.S. suburbs. This article addresses how these standards work to shape development decisions by various stakeholders in localities in Cook County, Illinois. Drawing on observations from several 2010 public architectural review commission hearings in nine different suburbs, I argue that design standards are forward-looking and ideology-based practices that are open to negotiation over the short run but ultimately end up shaping the "look" of the community over the long run. Implicit in such strategies is a reliance on an imputed agency of design in the built environment
Civil engineering · Commission · Community design · Ideology · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Urban design · Urban planning · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Engineering · Law · Public Administration · Public Spaces through Art · Urban Planning and Governance
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |