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A better place to live
Author: Langdon, P
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Abstract: Book that draws on the principles of the new urbanist movement to define principles of development.
Keywords: neo-traditional, urbanism
A Broken Wave: The Rebuilding of England, 1940-1980
Author: Esher, L
Publish date: 1981
Publisher: Allen Lane, London
Keywords: history, modernism, planning, social aspects of design
A Case of Oconographic Competition: The Building Industry and the Postmodern Landscape
Author: Sternberg, E
Publish date: June 1996
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 1(2)
Pages: 145 - 163
Abstract: As building firms have refined their products' iconographic features, the urban landscape has undergone profound change - the present result is what many call the postmodern landscape. Drawing on Joseph Schumpeter's concept of creative destruction, this article argues that landscape change in general, and the rise of the postmodern landscape in particular, refelcts the working dynamics of market capitalism. The article then describes the variety of iconographic strategies through which building entreprises
Keywords: identity, postmodernism, semiotics
A Catholic Approach to Organising What Urban Designers Should Know
Author: Moudon, A V
Publish date: 1992
Journal: Journal of Planning Literature, Vol 6($)
Pages: 331-349
Keywords: keywords, Urban Design
A Centennium of Sitte
Author: Shelton, B
Publish date: December 1989
Journal: Australian Planner, Vol 27(4)
Pages: 29-32
Abstract: The articles reviews the work of Camillo Sitte, City Planning According to Artistic Principles, and considers the relevance of the work to contemporary urban design practice.
Keywords: history, morphology, townscape
A Changing Street Life in a Changing Society
Author: Gehl, J
Publish date: 1992
Journal: Places Vol 6(1)
Pages: 8-17
Keywords: behavioural, social aspects of design, streets
A Comment by the Secretary of State for the Environment
Author: Gummer, J
Publish date: 1997
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 2(1)
Pages: 5 - 8
Abstract: A useful comment by the then Britsh Secretary of State for the Environment about the nature of the Government's commitment to urban design in planning and design practice.
Keywords: britain, design control/review, planning, politics
A Computer Graphic Reconstruction of the Architectural Structure of Medieval Genoa
Author: Cicconetti C, Gasparini e Mastretta M and Morten E
Publish date: 1991
Journal: Environment and Planning B, Vol 18
Pages: 25-31
Keywords: techniques
A Criticism of Modern Architecture or About the Downfall of the Art of Building
Author: Krier, R
Publish date: 1983
Journal: Architectural Design 9/10
Publisher: Architectural Design, London
Keywords: architecture, morphology
A Design Guide for Residential Areas
Author: Essex County Council
Publish date: 1973
Publisher: Essex County Council, Chelmsford
Keywords: design control/review, design guide, neo-traditional, planning, suburbs
A Design Guide for Rural Northern Ireland
Author: Northern Ireland Office, Department of the Environment
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: HMSO, London
Keywords: design control/review, visual interpretation
A Glossary of Technical Terms in Urban Morphology
Author: Jones, A N and Larkham P J
Publish date: 1989
Publisher: School of Geography, University of Birmingham, Working Paper 49
Keywords: morphology
A History of Aesthetic Control
Author: Punter, J V
Publish date: 1985
Publisher: Dept of Estate Management, University of Reading
Pages: 2 Volumes
Keywords: aesthetics, design control/review, visual interpretation
A Housing Style for Troubled Consumers: The success of Pseudo-Vernacular
Author: Forty, A and Moss, H
Publish date: February 1980
Journal: Architectural Review
Pages: 73-78
Keywords: design control/review, housing, planning, style, suburbs
A Ladder of Citizen Participation
Author: Arnstein, Shelly R
Publish date: July 1969
Journal: Journal of the American Institute of Planners
Pages: 216-224
Keywords: participation
A microcosm of design control in post-war Britain a case study of office development in central Bristol 1940-90
Author: Punter, J V
Publish date: 1991
Journal: Planning Perspectives
Pages: 315-347
Keywords: aesthetics, design control/review, planning
A new decade of promise and challenge
Author: Hutchinson, M
Publish date: December/January 1989/1990
Journal: House Builder
Pages: 20-24
Keywords: housing
A New Paradigm for Local Development Plans
Author: Hall, A.C.
Publish date: 2000
Journal: Urban Design International, Vol 5 (2)
Pages: 123-140
Abstract: A criticism of local development plans leads to a proposal for a new type of planning to overcome current difficulties with mixed-use, urban hisotry, urban design principles and public participation.
Keywords: development process, mixed use, planning
A New Theory of Urban Design
Author: Alexander C, Neis H, Anninou A and King I
Publish date: 1987
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York
Keywords: behavioural, theory, Urban Design
A Palimpsest of Cultural Synthesis and Urban Change: Bukhara after the Islamic invasions
Author: Sobti, M
Journal: Built Environment, Vol 28 (3)
Pages: 217-230
Abstract: This article proposes a hypothesis that a new urban type exists with distinct formal and spatial characteristics, developed from a pre-Islamic past. It looks at some of Bukhara's history and its visual character.
Keywords: developing context, history
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings and Construction
Author: Alexander C, Ishikawa S, Silverstein M
Publish date: 1968
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York
Keywords: behavioural, cultural, morphology, theory, typology, Urban Design
A Populism for the City: John Dewey, Henry George and the city planning movement
Author: Fairfield,J.D.
Publish date: 2002
Journal: Urban Design Studies, Vol 8
Pages: 19-27
Abstract: This paper examines the democratic philosophy put forward by Dewey. It looks generally at broadening the relationship of urban design and city planning to the public and encouraging education and empowerment resulting in collective action.
Keywords: participation, theory
A practical guide to Living Over Shops
Author: National Housing and Town Planning Council
Publish date: July 1992
Publisher: NHTPC, London
Keywords: process, regeneration, retail
A Practical Guide to Living Over the Shop
Author: Griffin, C
Publish date: 1992
Publisher: London: National Town Housing and Town PLanning Council
Keywords: housing, mixed use
A Procedural Explanation for Contemporary Urban Design
Author: Varkki George, R
Publish date: 1997
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 2, No 2
Pages: 143 - 161
Abstract: The paper discusses urban design as a "second order design endeavour", where designers are only indirectly responsible for producing built forms and the spaces between them. It is argued that urban designers design the decision making environment, rather than the environment itself.
Keywords: process, theory
A Procedural Explanation for Contemporary Urban Design
Author: George, R V
Publish date: 1997
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 2 (2)
Pages: 143 - 161
Abstract: The paper reviews tatics employed by urban designers and then explains these tactics with reference to urban design as a second order activity.
Keywords: process
A refrain with a view (A new approach to local citizen participation in community design)
Author: Hester, R T
Publish date: 1999
Journal: Places, Vol 12 (2)
Pages: 12 - 25
Keywords: community, participation
A Sense of PLace, A Sense of Time
Author: Jachson, J B
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: place
A study of passive solar energy estate layout
Author: NBA Tectonics
Publish date: 1988
Publisher: Department of Energy, Thames House South, Place Street, London, SW1E 5HE
Keywords: housing, sustainability
A Sustainable Community Profile
Author: Martin, M
Publish date: 1995
Journal: Places Vol 9 No 3
Pages: pp 30 - 37
Keywords: community, sustainability, urban form
A Sustainable Future Through The Compact City? Urban Intensification In The United Kingdom
Author: Jenks, M Williams, K and Burton, E
Publish date: 1996
Journal: Environments By Design, Vol 1(1)
Pages: pp 5-20
Abstract: The article reports on research into intensification. Based on a national survey and interviews in all UK regions, a picture of where, how and why intensification happens is given for the first time. The significance of these findings is related to the broader issues of the sustainable city.
Keywords: sustainability
A Tale of Two Cities
Author: Lambert, D.
Publish date: 2000
Journal: Landscape Design 293
Pages: 15-
Abstract: This article looks at why there has been a failure in the UK to provide new, exciting public spaces. Looking at inspiration from Paris and differences in culture and attitudes abour urban design.
Keywords: assessing quality, britain, landscape, public space
A Theology of the Built Environment
Author: Gorringe,T.J.
Publish date: July 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Abstract: A theological reflection on the built environment as a whole.
Keywords: cultural
A theoretical assessment of the "neotraditional" settlement form by dimensions of performance
Author: Banai, R
Publish date: 1996
Journal: Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, Vol 23(2)
Pages: 177 - 190
Abstract: The paper presents a method for evaluating "neotraditional" urban form using qualities derived from Kevin Lynch's "A Theory of Good City Form".
Keywords: assessing quality, morphology, neo-traditional, techniques, urban form, urbanism
A Theory of Expositions
Author: Eco, Umberto
Publish date: 1987
Journal: from "Faith in Fakes"
Publisher: Secker and Warburg, London
Keywords: semiotics
A Theory of Good City Form
Author: Lynch, K
Publish date: 1981
Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge MASS
Keywords: theory, Urban Design
A visual approach to urban conservation
Author: Burke, G
Publish date: 1975
Publisher: College of Estate Management, Reading
Keywords: conservation, morphology, spatial interpretation, theory, townscape
A visual approach to urban evolution
Author: Burke, G
Publish date: 1975
Publisher: College of Estate Management, Reading
Keywords: conservation, history, morphology, spatial interpretation, theory, townscape
A way with materials
Author: Jones, R
Publish date: June 1989
Journal: House Builder
Pages: 28-32
Keywords: housing
A welcome alternative to city life: China's suburban revolution
Author: Campenella, T
Publish date: 1996
Journal: Urban Design International, Vol 1(2)
Pages: 173 - 181
Abstract: The paper reviews development trends under "socialist capitalism", in particular the range of western artifacts of suburbia influnced by American, Japanese and European styles and patterns of living.
Keywords: china, semiotics, suburbs
A Working Guide for PLanning and Designing Safer Urban Environments
Author: City of Toronto
Publish date: 1992
Publisher: City of Toronto, Toronto
Abstract: Practical guide that helps planners and designers integrate concern for safety into their work. Includes advice about how to imrove the safety of stations, pedestrian tunnels and underpasses, parks, high-rise residential areas, office developments, schools and other public areas.
Keywords: security, techniques
Access to the Historic Environment: meeting the needs of disabled people
Author: Foster, L
Publish date: 1997
Publisher: Donhead, Shaftesbury, Dorset, UK
Abstract: Book that, in very practical terms, discusses how to provide access for physically disabled people to historic buildings, and to some extent more general environments.
Keywords: accessibility, conservation, heritage
Accidental Cities: The Deadly Grip of Outmoded Zoning
Author: Barnett, Jon
Publish date: February 1992
Journal: Architectural Record
Pages: 94-101
Keywords: planning, united states of america
Achieving Quality in the Housing Environment
Author: Manley, S and Guise R
Publish date: February 1995
Journal: Planning Report
Pages: pp. 33 - 35
Keywords: assessing quality, housing
Achieving Sustainable Urban Form
Author: Williams, K, Burton E and Jenks M
Publish date: March 2000
Publisher: E and F N Spon, London
Abstract: Achieving Sustainable Urban Form represents a major advance in the sustainable development debate. It presents research which defines elements of sustainable urban form - density, size, configuration, detailed design and quality - from macro to micro scale. Case studies from Europe, the USA and Australia are used to illustrate good practice within the fields of planning, urban design and architecture.
Keywords: sustainability
Action Planning: how to use planning weekends and urban design action teams to improve the environment
Author: Wates, N
Publish date: 1996
Publisher: The Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture, 14 Gloucester Gate, London, Nw1 4HG
Keywords: community, participation, planning, process
Aesthetic Control
Author: Shillian, W
Publish date: May 1991
Journal: RIBA Journal
Pages: 52-60
Keywords: aesthetics, design control/review, planning
Aesthetic Control and Design Guidance: A Survey of Current Practice
Author: Larkham, P J
Publish date: March 12 1993
Journal: Paper given at Aesthetic Control Conference, RTPI
Publisher: 1-2
Keywords: aesthetics, design control/review, planning
Aesthetic control strangling creativity
Author: Meades, J
Publish date: December 1979
Journal: Architects Journal Vol 167
Pages: 1316-1324
Keywords: aesthetics, design control/review
Aesthetic Control within the development control process: a case study
Author: Punter, J V
Publish date: 1986
Journal: Land Development Studies Vol 3
Pages: 197-212
Keywords: aesthetics, design control/review, process, visual interpretation
Aesthetic Ideology and Urban Design
Author: Rubin, B
Publish date: September 1979
Journal: Annals of the Assoc. of American Geographers
Pages: 339-361
Keywords: aesthetics, commercial, semiotics, style, visual interpretation
Aesthetic Judgement and Environmental Design: Is it entirely subjective?
Author: Taylor, N
Publish date: 1994
Journal: Town Planning Review Vol 65 (1)
Pages: 21-40
Keywords: aesthetics, design control/review, theory
Aesthetics and the Urban Landscape
Author: Manning, O
Publish date: 1982
Journal: Landscape Research Vol 7(3)
Pages: 1
Keywords: aesthetics
After the City
Author: Lerup, L
Publish date: 2000
Publisher: MIT
Abstract: 'After the City' is a discussion of the idea that the architectural profession should be rethought to reflect the city as a whole as opposed to individual unique projects. It attempts to cover the ground between the city and design, discussing the form of cities and the communties created within them.
Keywords: architecture, community, neighbourhood, urban form
Against Enclosure
Author: Hillier, Bill
Editor: Teymur, N Markus, T and Wooley, T
Publish date: 1988
Journal: Rehumanizing Housing
Publisher: Butterworths, London
Pages: 63-88
Keywords: accessibility, housing, morphology, security, theory
Agents of Change in the Conserved Townscape
Author: Larkham, P J
Publish date: 1988
Journal: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers No 13
Pages: 148-164
Keywords: design control/review, townscape
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
Author: Berman, M
Publish date: 1982
Publisher: Verso Press, London
Keywords: modernism, social aspects of design, theory, urbanism
Alnwick, Northumberland: A Study in Town Plan Analysis
Author: Conzen, M R G
Publish date: 1960
Publisher: Institute of British Geographers Publication No 27
Keywords: morphology, spatial interpretation, theory
Alternative Development Patterns: New Settlements
Author: Breheny, M J, Gent, T and Lock D
Publish date: 1993
Publisher: DOE Planning Research Programme, HMSO, London
Keywords: new settlements
Ambiguities of Urban Design
Author: Madani-Pour, A
Publish date: 1997
Journal: Town Planning Review, Vol 68(3)
Pages: 363 - 383
Abstract: The paper reviews certain ambiguities relating to what the discipline of urban design is actually about. The author discusses ambiguitiues relating to: the scale of urban fabric which urban design addresses; concern for visual or spatial issues; spatial or social emphases; process and/or development product; the relationship between professionals; public and/or private sector affiliations; and design as an object-rational process vs design as a subject-arrational process.
Keywords: theory, Urban Design
American Urban Design
Author: Gosling, David
Publish date: 2003
Publisher: Chichester, Wile and Son
Abstract: Book that reviews the history of American urban design with a particular emphasis on developments each decade since 1950. Key projects and innovations since this time are reviewed/discussed.
Keywords: history, united states of america
An Anatomy of London
Author: MacCormac, R
Publish date: 1996
Journal: Built Environment, Vol 22(4)
Pages: 306 - 311
Abstract: The author illustrates spatial transactions between uses as a result of studying sections through the built environment. The sections illustrate how building types and uses can and do coexist. The author argues that concern for architectural style does not create good places, but concern for use, scale and symmetry across places.
Keywords: mixed use, social aspects of design, typology
An Appraisal of the History, Impact and Effectiveness of the Essex Design Guide for Residential Areas
Author: Smales, L M
Publish date: July 1991
Publisher: PhD Thesis, Joint Centre for Urban Design, Oxford Brookes University
Keywords: design control/review, housing, suburbs
An Approach to the assessment of Energy Efficiency of Urban Built Form
Author: Rickaby, P
Editor: Hawkes D, Owers J, Rickaby P and Steadman P
Publish date: 1987
Journal: Energy and Urban Built Form
Publisher: Butterworths, London
Pages: pp 43-62
Keywords: sustainability
An evaluation of a private sector residential layout guide
Author: Biddulph, M J
Publish date: 1996
Journal: Urban Design International, Vol 1(2)
Pages: 145 - 162
Abstract: The paper compares the private sector guide with criticisms of public sector guides, and also evaluates the success of the guide in meeting its own objectives.
Keywords: design guide, housing
An Evaluation of Neotraditional Design's Social Prescription: Postmodern Placebo or Remedy for Suburban Malaise?
Author: Audirac, I and Shermyen, Anne H
Publish date: 1994
Journal: Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol 13
Pages: 161-173
Keywords: neo-traditional, style, suburbs, theory
An Introduction to Housing Layout a GLC Study
Author: Greater London Council ( GLC )
Publish date: 1980
Publisher: Architectural Press, London
Keywords: housing
An Introduction to Property Valuation 3rd Edition
Author: Millington, A F
Publish date: 1990
Publisher: Estates Gazette, London
Keywords: valuation
An Introduction to Urban Design
Author: Barnett, Jon
Publish date: 1982
Publisher: Harper and Row, Cambridge MASS
Keywords: design control/review, planning, process, united states of america, Urban Design
An Introduction to Urban Renewal
Author: Gibson, M S and Langstaff M J
Publish date: 1982
Publisher: Hutchinson, London
Keywords: regeneration
An urban design process for large development sites
Author: Biddulph, M J
Publish date: 1997
Journal: Town and Country Planning, Vol 66(7/8)
Pages: 202 - 204
Abstract: Brief paper that reviews some of the lessons emerging from the Urban Design Campaign relating to the urban design and site planning process.
Keywords: design control/review, planning, process
An Urbane Gaol: Macquarie's Sydney
Author: Brand, D
Publish date: 1998
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 3(2)
Pages: 225 - 239
Abstract: Paper that reviews the legacy of Govenor Lachlan Macquarie on contemporary Sydney, Australia.
Keywords: australia, history
Analysing city politics
Author: Goldsmith, M
Editor: Goldsmith, M
Publish date: 1984
Journal: Politics, Planning and the City
Publisher: Hutchinson, London
Pages: 27-47
Keywords: planning, politics
Angell Town Reinventing the Victorian Terrace
Author: Various
Publish date: August 4 1993
Journal: Architects Journal
Pages: 2736
Keywords: community, participation, regeneration, security, typology
Approaching Urban Design
Author: Greed,C
Publish date: July 2001
Publisher: Pearson Higher Education
Abstract: A practical approach to the process of urban design. This book looks at the application and implementation of the key concepts and princilple considerations of urban design. With photos, diagrams and sketches and examples of a range of urban design tasks.
Keywords: principles, Urban Design
Architects and Their Symbols
Author: Broadbent, G
Editor: Pipkin J S et al
Publish date: 1983
Journal: Remaking the City: Social Science Perspectives in Urban Design
Publisher: State Univ. of New York, Albany
Pages: 77-100
Keywords: postmodernism, semiotics, style
Architects the Noted and the Ignored
Author: Prak, N L
Publish date: 1984
Publisher: John Wiley, Chichester
Keywords: architecture, style, visual interpretation
Architects+ Data: The Handbook of Building Types Second Edition
Author: Neufert, E
Publish date: 1980
Publisher: BSP Professional Books, Oxford
Keywords: data, typology
Architecture and its Interpretation
Author: Bonta, J P
Publish date: 1979
Publisher: Lund Humphries, London
Keywords: architecture, semiotics, style, visual interpretation
Architecture and Planning: The Divergence of Two Fields
Author: Dagenhart, R and Sawicki, D
Publish date: 1992
Journal: Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol 12
Pages: pp. 1-16
Keywords: architecture, education, planning
Architecture and the Human Dimension
Author: Smith, P F
Publish date: 1979
Publisher: Goodwin
Keywords: architecture, morphology
Architecture and the Urban Environment
Author: Thomas, D
Publish date: October 2002
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Abstract: An illustrated text that takes a critical look at the place and direction of architecture and urban design at the start of the 21st century
Keywords: architecture, Urban Design
Architecture and the Urban Environment: A vision for the New Age
Author: Thomas, D
Publish date: November 2002
Publisher: Architectural Press
Abstract: This book gives a critical look at architecture and urban design at the begining of the twenty-first century and their role and direction in the new world order. 240 images are used to illustrate buildings that have had a significant impact on architecture and urban design in the last decade.
Keywords: architecture, Urban Design
Architecture and Urban Conservation in the City
Author: Fielden, B M
Publish date: February 1985
Journal: Town Planning Review, Vol 56(2)
Pages: 197-221
Keywords: architecture, conservation
Architecture and Urban Design in Six British New Towns
Author: Opher, P
Publish date: 1981
Publisher: Joint Centre for Urban Design, Oxford Brookes Univ.
Keywords: new settlements
Architecture as Advertising: Constructing the Image of Redevelopment
Author: Crilley, D
Editor: Kearns, G and Philo, C
Publish date: 1993
Journal: Selling Place: the city as cultural capital, past and present
Publisher: Pergamon Press, Oxford
Pages: 231-252
Keywords: postmodernism, semiotics, style
Architecture of Commercial Redevelopment in Post War Britain
Author: Whitehand, J W R
Publish date: 1984
Journal: Journal of Cultural Geography Vol 42
Pages: 41-55
Keywords: architecture, commercial, development process
Art and craft in urban design - the possibilities for collaboration
Author: Miles, M
Publish date: March 1996
Journal: Urban Design International Vol 1(1)
Pages: 81-88
Abstract: The paper asks what can artists and craftspeople contribute to urban design, and examines contrasting strategies which can be observed. Recent practice suggests two approaches: the integration of decorative and applied art in the design of public space, and the interventionist tactics of artists who seek to engage with public issues or enpower urban dwellers through temporary art and community based projects.
Keywords: art, public space
Art in the urban landscape
Author: Cartes, I
Publish date: 1997
Journal: Urban Design International, Vol 2(4)
Pages: 189 - 198
Abstract: Paper that discusses the use of public art as a mechanism to improve the public realm, and the public's attitude towards urban space. Discusses the results of a public attitude survey to a public art strategy in Concepcion, Chile.
Keywords: art
Art-full places: public art to sell public spaces?
Author: Goodey, B
Editor: Gold, J R and Ward S V
Publish date: 1994
Journal: Place Promotion: the use of publicity and marketing to sell towns and regions
Publisher: John Wiley, Chichester
Pages: 153-179
Keywords: art, place, public space, spatial interpretation
Artful change: public art and city regeneration
Author: Roberts, M and Erickson, B
Publish date: 1996
Journal: Urban Design International, Vol 1(2)
Pages: 163 - 171
Abstract: The role of public art in renewal strategies in Birmingham and Swansea is discussed, and the controversy that particular pieces have generated is presented. A method of analysis of public art in an urban context is presented.
Keywords: art, regeneration, visual interpretation
Auckland, Slowly Disappearing: Looking for the Felton Mathew Plan
Author: Brand, D
Publish date: 1996
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 1(3)
Pages: 265 - 279
Abstract: Paper that discusses the first plan for Auckland, New Zealand, in particular the geometric character of the plan imposed on the varied topography of the area. The author discusses why so little of the vision remains
Keywords: history, new zealand, urban form
Authenticity and the Sense of Place in Urban Design
Author: Salah ouf, A.M.
Publish date: 2001
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 6 (1)
Pages: 73-86
Abstract: This article looks at how urban conservation can be used to promote an historical urban identity as well as an authentic urban identity. It is suggested that more attention should be paid to the creation of a sense of place rather than exact restoration of urban details. Two urban heritage conservation projects are looked at in detail, assessing the impact of internationally enforced standards of conservation on the overall urban experience.
Keywords: conservation, identity, place
Autocratic Control and Urban Design: The case of Tehran, Iran
Author: Mazumdar,S.
Publish date: 2000
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 5 (3)
Pages: 317-338
Abstract: A historical analysis of urban design and form in the city of Tehran. Looking at the city's origin, development and urban renewal schemes and how the concept of autocratic control emerged. The artical also looks at the relevance of the concept to other cultures, situations and times.
Keywords: design control/review, history, typology
