ABSTRACT
Design quality is essential to a better standard of living and is
increasingly being accepted as vital to successful new housing
developments. Good design quality provides robust, attrac-
tive and sensitively planned homes that shape communities
and helps create a healthier and more advanced society. Yet,
design quality is a vague and subjective term and raises many
questions – whose judgement of good quality design should be
followed, and what values and aspirations of design quality do
architects, design and planning professionals need to address to
ensure better housing developments?
