Urban Design Management (UDM) involves mediation among a range of self-interested stakeholders involved in the production of the built environment. Such mediation can encourage a joint search for mutually beneficial outcomes, or Integrative Development. Integrative Development links stakeholders at diverse scales and in multiple contexts. Integrative Development aims to produce more sustainable solutions by increasing stakeholder satisfaction with the process and content of urban development.

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  • Urban Design Management (UDM) involves mediation among a range of self-interested stakeholders involved in the production of the built environment. Such mediation can encourage a joint search for mutually beneficial outcomes, or Integrative Development. Integrative Development links stakeholders at diverse scales and in multiple contexts. Integrative Development aims to produce more sustainable solutions by increasing stakeholder satisfaction with the process and content of urban development. (Edelman, 2007) Conventional real estate development and urban planning activities are framed in conflicting interests and positional bargaining. Integrative negotiation approaches focusing on mutual gains have been applied in land use planning and environmental management, but not at intersection of real estate development, city design and urban planning. Urban Design Management involves reordering the chain of events in the production of the built environment according to the principles of integrative negotiation. Such principled negotiation can be used in urban development and planning activities to reach more efficient agreements. The approach of UDM aims increasing the stakeholders’ satisfaction both to the process and content of development. This leads to Integrative Developments and more sustainable ways to produce the built environment. (eds. Ahlava and Edelman, 2008) UDM offers prescriptive advice for practitioners trying to organize city planning activities in a way that will increase sustainability by increasing satisfaction levels. Real estate development and urban planning often occur at very different decision-making scales. The practitioners involved may have diverse educational and professional backgrounds. They certainly have conflicting interests. Providing prescriptive advice for differing, possibly conflicting, groups requires construction of a framework that accommodates all of their daily activities and responsibilities. UDM provides a common framework to help bring together the conventional practices of urban and regional planning, real estate development, and urban design. The work on integrative negotiation (see Consensus Building, Susskind; McKearnan; Thomas-Larmer 1999 and the Mutual Gains Approach, Susskind; Field 1996) has provided a helpful theoretical framework for developing the theory of UDM.
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  • Urban Design Management (UDM) involves mediation among a range of self-interested stakeholders involved in the production of the built environment. Such mediation can encourage a joint search for mutually beneficial outcomes, or Integrative Development. Integrative Development links stakeholders at diverse scales and in multiple contexts. Integrative Development aims to produce more sustainable solutions by increasing stakeholder satisfaction with the process and content of urban development.
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  • Urban design management
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