Regulating Design: The Practices of Architecture, Governance and Control

The practices of architecture are influenced and shaped by building regulations, codes and rules that are formulated to provide specific and predictable outcomes for all aspects of architectural production, from conceptual design to urban form. Such regulations and codes are not necessarily enshrined in law but are systematic sets of rules characterised and differentiated by authorship, context and implementation. In all instances, rules and regulations pervade and influence, or codify, the practices of architecture, yet little is known about their impacts on, and implications for, the design and production of the built environment. This Special Issue of Urban Studies seeks to address this lacuna in knowledge by exploring the interrelationships between regulation and the design and production of urban space, with a focus on the practices of architecture.

[1]  C. Offe.  Some contradictions of the modern welfare state* , 1982 .

[2]  W C Baer,et al.  Toward Design of Regulations for the Built Environment , 1997 .

[3]  M. Foucault,et al.  Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. , 1978 .

[4]  Peter G. Rowe.  Modernity and housing , 1993 .

[5]  Igal Charney,et al.  The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making , 2007 .

[6]  Le Corbusier,et al.  The Decorative Art Of Today , 1987 .

[7]  Laurence J. C. Ma.  Social Space and Governance in Urban China: The Danwei System from Origins to Reform , 2006 .

[9]  Matthew Carmona,et al.  Public Places - Urban Spaces : the dimensions of urban design, Second Edition , 2003 .

[10]  K. Lynch.  Good city form , 1984 .

[11]  R. D'amico.  Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison , 1978, Telos.

[12]  M. Huxley.  Spatial rationalities: order, environment, evolution and government , 2006 .

[13]  R. Imrie,et al.  Organisational Change in Systems of Building Regulation and Control: Illustrations from the English Context , 2009 .

[14]  Brian K. Ray.  Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900–1960 , 2005 .

[15]  J. Collier.  The Art of Moral Imagination: Ethics in the Practice of Architecture , 2006 .

[16]  Suzanne MacLeod.  Reshaping museum space : architecture, design, exhibitions , 2005 .

[17]  M. Power.  The audit society : rituals of verification , 1999 .

[18]  Ralph W. Liebing.  Construction regulations handbook , 1987 .

[19]  M. Lucio,et al.  The Realities of Regulatory Change , 2005 .

[20]  John Friedmann,et al.  Reflections on Place and Place-making in the Cities of China , 2007 .

[21]  John R. Bowen,et al.  Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action , 1999 .

[22]  A. Vidler.  The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely , 1992 .

[23]  Kristine F. Miller.  Designs on the Public: The Private Lives of New York's Public Spaces , 2007 .

[24]  Eran Ben-Joseph,et al.  Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America , 2005 .

[25]  Diane Yvonne Ghirardo.  Out of Site. A Social Criticism of Architecture , 1991 .

[26]  Renia Ehrenfeucht,et al.  Civil Liberties and the Regulation of Public Space: The Case of Sidewalks in Las Vegas , 2008 .

[27]  P. O’Malley.  Risk, Uncertainty and Government , 2004 .

[28]  Magali Sarfatti Larson,et al.  Behind the Postmodern Facade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth-Century America , 1995 .

[29]  K Stanilov,et al.  Urban transformations: Power, people and urban design , 2003 .

[30]  A. Kellerman,et al.  The Constitution of Society : Outline of the Theory of Structuration , 2015 .

[31]  Kenneth Frampton,et al.  Modern Architecture: A Critical History , 1980 .

[32]  Howard Davis,et al.  The Culture of Building , 2006 .

[33]  David Murakami Wood,et al.  The Everyday Resilience of the City: How Cities Respond to Terrorism and Disaster , 2009 .

[34]  Chris Otter.  Making liberalism durable: Vision and civility in the late Victorian city , 2002 .

[35]  Le Corbusier,et al.  Towards a New Architecture , 2008 .

[36]  Peter Miller,et al.  Accounting, hybrids and the management of risk , 2008 .

[37]  Jonathan Teicher,et al.  Palladio's Children , 2005 .

[38]  Ya-Hui Kuo,et al.  The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making , 2005 .

[39]  L. Mumford,et al.  The City in History. Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects , 1961 .

[40]  Rob Imrie,et al.  The Interrelationships between Building Regulations and Architects' Practices , 2007 .