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Consensus Design offers a practical step by step guide to Christopher Day's unique brand of inclusive design, showing that there is a rewarding and effective alternative to conventional top-down design processes.This though-provoking book argues that consensus design is the only meaningful way to involve people in shaping the places where they live and work. Inclusive design has far-reaching benefits, influencing social stability, crime-reduction, personal health and building longevity, all of which in turn have monetary and environmental cost implications.Consensus design is not just a utopian ideal, nor does it lead to bland compromise, but to quality architecture. With clear and functional advice, Day identifies the methodology of the process and then develops a series of core principles and practical steps, illustrating how inclusive projects can be established. For easy reference, flow charts show the process of achieving consensus design and include variations for different types of project and different groups of people. A number of case studies are also feature, including projects in the UK, US and Sweden, illustrating inclusive principles in practice.
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Consensus Design Socially inclusive process Christopher Day with Rosie Parnell Architectural Press OX F O R D A M S T E R DA M B O S TO N LO N D O N N E W YO R K PA R I S S A N D I E G O S A N F R A N C I S C O S I N G A P O R E S Y D N E Y TO KYO Architectural Press An imprint of Elsevier Science Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 200 Wheeler Road, Burlington MA 01803 First published 2003 Copyright © 2003, Christopher Day and Rosie Parnell. All rights reserved The right of Christopher Day and Rosie Parnell to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright holder except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, England W1T 4LP. Applications for the copyright holder’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publisher Disclaimer The information and statements herein are believed to be reliable, but are not to be construed as a warranty or representation for which the authors or publisher assume legal responsibility. Users should undertake sufficient verification and testing to determine the suitability for their own particular purpose of any information or products referred to herein. No warranty of fitness for a particular purpose is made British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress ISBN 0 7506 5605 0 For information on all Architectural Press publications visit our website at www.architecturalpress.com Produced by Gray Publishing, Tunbridge Wells, Kent Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books, Bodmin, Cornwall Contents Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales Preface: Consensus Design in context by Rosie Parnell Acknowledgements vii ix xviii PART ONE: INTRODUCTION 1 1 3 Architecture as a social art: a journey PART TWO: CONSENSUS DESIGN: WHY? 7 2 Why: community design and place What shapes places? Design by the community: why? What design involvement does for the community