Tracing Rights on the Ground: Spatial Controversies around Urban Development Projects

This article conceives an urban project as a mechanism that traces rights on the ground. First, and most relevantly, a project separates public and private land and defines what can be built. At another level, design decisions involve a broad range of permissions and obligations. Thus, urban project...

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Autor Principal: Marco Cremaschi
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
Publicado: Rosenberg & Sellier 2019-03-01
Series:Ardeth
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Acceso en liña:http://journals.openedition.org/ardeth/532
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Summary:This article conceives an urban project as a mechanism that traces rights on the ground. First, and most relevantly, a project separates public and private land and defines what can be built. At another level, design decisions involve a broad range of permissions and obligations. Thus, urban projects act as a form of regulation, like planning, albeit a specific form with its own rules and limits. The paper explores a two-step process. First, in the policy phase, some regulatory decision-making is delegated to design. Then, design challenges the value assumptions underlying decision-makers’ actions. ‘Regulation by design’ arranges material objects in space and activates those spatial mechanisms.
ISSN:2532-6457
2611-934X