ABSTRACT
This paper is a review of 20 years' scientific research on and professional participation in design review. Several issues were explored in that research, including the issue of how science can be used to help designers understand other people's feelings about design projects, the issue of how science can be used in professional design review applications, the issue of how well environments can be represented by various types of visual simulations, the issue of how respondent selection would alter the results of design reviews, and the issue of the political legitimacy of design review. These issues were explored through experiments on topics ranging from high rise buildings to houses built under the jurisdiction of a neighborhood deSign review board. It is suggested that the functionality and responsiveness of design review can be greatly enhanced through the use of psychological scaling. It is further suggested that the fairness and legal defensibility of design review can be greatly enhanced by using methods based on alternative dispute resolution and the Administrcuive Procedure Act.
