identity by design

This book could never have been written without

the generous assistance we have received from

people across the globe.We owe debts of gratitude

both to those who have provided information for

specific case studies, and to others who have played

key roles in pulling the whole project together.

Our understanding of specific case studies has

been enriched by many local people, without whose

insights we should never have penetrated beneath

the tourist veneer.We wish to thank the following

in particular: in Prague Michal Hexner and Jiˇri

ˇStursa; in Ljubljana Richard Andrews, Stane Bernik,

Peter Kreˇciˇ c,Vesna Grunˇ ci´c-Vedlin and Braco Muˇsi´c;

in relation to the Underground, Bob Langridge;

in Mexico Diego Villaseñor, Ricardo Legorreta,

Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon, Carlos and Lisa Tejeda,

Cecilia Martinez de la Macorra, Ana Maldonado

Villaseñor and Luis Gabriel Juarez; in Bologna Pier

Luigi Cervallati, Gianfranco Caniggia and Nicola

Belodi; in Perugia Lucia Vaˇsak and Fabrizio Fiorini; in

Malaysia Jimmy Lim, Mijan Dolbani and Bayo Bayudi;

in Boston Eric Schmidt and Dick Gavers; and in

relation to the Responsive Environments approach

Paul Murrain, Ivor Samuels, Richard Hayward, Sue

McGlynn, Graham Smith, Mariana Castaños, Dora

Boatemah (who sadly died before the book was

finished), Thomas Esterine and the residents of

Brixton’s Angell Town estate.We are very grateful

to them all. The authors wish to thank the following

for illustrations: Asia Publications, Concept Media,

Boston Redevelopment Authority, Landscape Design

Magazine, The MIT Press, the Trustees of the Public

Library in Boston, Verso Publishing Company, Edizioni

L’lnchiostroblu, Tachen, Electa, Arcadia, Institut

Masyarakat, Escala, The Monacelli Press, Thames and

Hudson, Birkauser Verlag AG, Studio Vista, Rotledge,

Uiverza v Ljubljani and Foulis Press.

Producing a book, however, is not only a matter

of intellectual debate. It also takes a great deal of

practical hard work. Here too we have debts to

acknowledge; in particular to Jane Handal, Jessica

Keal, Catherine Smith, Maureen Millard, Linda New,

Regina Mapua Lim, Anwar Punekar and Mario

Reyes.Without them,we should never have got the

book finished.

Finally, any long-running project needs constant

challenge and encouragement to keep it going.

Identity by Design is no exception; and we know how

much we owe to David Watson, to Iva Bentley, to

Christina Dorees, to all the students who pushed

us to develop these ideas in the first place, and to

the supportive climate of the Joint Centre for

Urban Design.

Georgia Butina Watson

Ian Bentley