Urban Design in the Real Estate Development Process -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1 Real Estate Development, Urban Design and the Tools Approach to Public Policy -- Introduction -- Real estate development -- Opportunity space theory -- The tools approach to public policy -- Shaping instruments -- Regulatory instruments -- Stimulus instruments -- Capacity-building instruments -- Developers' decision environments -- 2 Masterplanning and Infrastructure in New Communities in Europe -- Introduction -- Differences between the UK and Europe -- Challenges for sustainable development -- European success stories -- Joined-up planning in the Randstad -- Conclusion: lessons for the UK -- 3 Design Coding: Mediating the Tyrannies of Practice -- Introduction -- The three tyrannies -- From development standards to design codes -- The research findings -- Conclusion -- 4 Proactive Engagement in Urban Design - The Case of Chelmsford -- Introduction -- Making the turnaround -- The need for negotiation -- Two examples -- Reflections on the developers' response -- Conclusion -- 5 Plot Logic: Character-Building Through Creative Parcelisation -- Introduction -- Setting the rules -- Parcelling and subdivision strategies -- The primacy of the urban realm -- The pitfalls of flexibility -- Economic viability of low-scale, densely distributed buildings -- Alternative models -- Conclusion -- 6 The Business of Codes: Urban Design Regulation in an Entrepreneurial Society -- Introduction -- Zoning America -- Developing America -- Designing the American future -- Conclusion -- 7 Good Design in the Redevelopment of Brownfield Sites -- Introduction -- Redeveloping and reusing brownfield sites: the policy and regulatory context -- Stimulus instruments in practice -- Conclusion.

8 Competitions as a Component of Design-Led Development (Place) Procurement -- Introduction -- The place promoter -- The deliverer and competition participant -- The (end) place matters most -- The competition -- Conclusion -- 9 Design Review - An Effective Means of Raising Design Quality? -- Introduction -- Origins, emergence and critiques of design review internationally -- The typology of design review in England, Scotland and Wales -- National design review: the genesis of CABE's procedures and processes -- How design review can increase the opportunity space for design -- The effectiveness of design review -- Conclusions: design review and the quality of development control -- 10 'Business as Usual?' - Exploring the Design Response of UK Speculative Housebuilders to the Brownfield Development Challenge -- Introduction -- The design debate around speculative housing development -- The conventional approach to design and construction in speculative housebuilding -- Responding to the challenge of brownfield development -- Conclusion -- 11 Physical-Financial Modelling as an Aid to Developers' Decision-Making -- Introduction -- Design quality and development viability -- Visualisation and financial appraisal -- Conclusion -- 12 Design Champions - Fostering a Place-Making Culture and Capacity -- Introduction -- The UK local government context -- The design champion as change agent -- Edinburgh's design champion initiative -- Conclusion -- 13 Value Creation Through Urban Design -- Introduction -- Design and development projects -- Strategies for enhancing value -- Coupling urban design and development -- 14 Connecting Urban Design to Real Estate Development -- Introduction -- Urban design and development economics -- Opportunity space and developer-designer relations -- Policy choices and policy design -- Towards a research agenda -- References.

Index.