Study on the Early Community Outreach for Design Review in the City of Seattle, U.S.A.

Abstract

The City of Seattle, U.S.A., has operated “the Early Community Outreach for Design Review” since 2018. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the characteristics of this program through understanding the relationship between the community’s opinions and the existing condition of the completed projects. The research methodology consists of analysis of information from the city's website and the city officer, interviews with academic experts, and field survey on the several projects developed based on this program. The results of the survey revealed that this program has been designed in such a way that a wide variety of information communication methods are set in the outreach rules, and appropriate outreach methods can be selected depending on the information literacy of local communities in order that there is no inequity in information dissemination among communities in the city.