ABSTRACT
Bringing an urban design concept to its real-world completion is a complicated interactive process. There are many available illustrations of urban design concepts, and many photos of completed projects, but not much has been published about what happens in between. As no one is equally proficient in all these areas, urban design is usually the work of a team with different specialties, but it is the designer who should lead the team because design is a methodology for resolving potential conflicts. As urban design plans usually rely for all or part of their implementation on the private real-estate market or the backing of major institutions, a successful urban design proposal must be seen to be a sound investment. Government intervention is usually required to make a development happen, so urban designers should demonstrate which interventions can produce the most desirable design outcomes, and how regulation can be a more positive force in guiding development.
