Abstract
This paper discusses on the ways in which public authority evaluates quality in architecture and urban design to select
knowledge base service with qualitative aspect in procurement process, by focusing on the English experience. In England
in the late 1990s, the need to improve construction industry was discussed, and then in the early 2000s the urban
renaissance policy to activate urban living was progressed. These came to be backgrounds to bring the government’s
establishment of professional consultation body named Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. The roles
of CABE were enabling local authority to realise better public project, providing design review service for local authority
to support decision on planning permission, and publishing report, guide, case study and so on based on CABE own
research, in order to support public authority to evaluates quality in architecture and urban design. Through the English
experience, it is pointed out the important role of the support body to collect and provide information and technique to not
only public authority but also citizens, and to support local authority to establish local design review system to derive their
own landscape.
