ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book begins with the traffic light and the police officer. It reviews how Euclidian zoning transformed over time to incorporate various interactive review processes in many jurisdictions. The book introduces the terms such as sustainability, participation, and place in the city halls. It also introduces two criteria: the responsiveness and representativeness. The book identifies an essential conflict between these two criteria and the uniformity and the impartiality principles of formal legal systems. It discusses how a designerly argumentation, by means of graphics, has the potential to create a language of proximities that can be shared and can make the communication more effective. The book explains that when this kind of communication takes place in a review process, the boundaries among the design, policy, and regulation blur and communication itself becomes part of the review process.
