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Innovations in Urban Design and Urban Form

The Making of Paradigms and the Implications for Public Policy

Department of Planning, Policy, and Design at the University of California, Irvine

How might innovations in urban design influence urban form? This paper focuses on two types of innovations—identified here as degenerative variations and integrative paradigms—to examine their impact on urban form and to discuss the implications for public policy. The paper begins with a presentation of how degenerative variations collectively generate an undesirable urban form. The paper then illustrates how integrative paradigms are conceived as a response to the problems of development of a particular period and the transformation of urban form. These paradigms are expected to nurture a collective vision and have a positive impact on urban form; however, they are undermined by the realities of development. The paper concludes with a discussion of the policy implications of innovations in urban design.

Key Words: urban design innovations • paradigms • urban form • public policy

Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 28, No. 1, 61-72 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0739456X08321733


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