Abstract
The central question of this study is whether and how the broader paradigmatic changes in social discourse, as exemplified by the postmodernism debate, are reflected in the practical world of local land-use regulations, specifically the design-review processes. We identify the paradigmatic themes of postmodernism as ‘place’, ‘sustainability’, and ‘participative democracy’. To address this central question we surveyed the officials in positions of implementing land-use controls in 87 (out of a sample set of 177) communities in Wisconsin having a population ranging from 2000 to 100 000, in order to identify their attitudes towards design review. In addition to questions on existing land-use regulations, our survey asked what types of objectives may be accomplished by design review and how, that is, whether they should be addressed by land-use regulations at all and, if so, the desired degree of ‘formality’ of the regulations. The data, analyzed by Ward's cluster analysis method (using SAS), show three diffe...
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