Tracing how codes arose when they did, and how they were adapted over time, the authors examine the increasing influence of regulatory codes over urban design and planning in the past century.
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"Highly recommended." - Dolores Hayden, Yale University, author of A Field Guide to Sprawl and Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000
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Eran Ben-Joseph holds the Career Development Chair in MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning. He is the co-author of Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities.
Terry S. Szold is a land use planning consultant and adjunct professor at MIT. She is the co-editor of Smart Growth.
Terry S. Szold is a land use planning consultant and adjunct professor at MIT. She is the co-editor of Smart Growth.
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Through the years, the design and layout of urban developments have become increasingly regulated. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Los Angeles, Palos Verdes, United States, San Diego, San Francisco, Zoning Resolution, Bearskin Neck, New Jersey, New England, African Americans, American Planning Association, Fifth Avenue, Harvard University Press, Planning the Site, Clean Water Act, World Heritage, World War, Jane Jacobs, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Buildings Department, Mark Schuster, National Fire Protection Association, New Haven, Santa Ana New!
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Through the years, the design and layout of urban developments have become increasingly regulated. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Los Angeles, Palos Verdes, United States, San Diego, San Francisco, Zoning Resolution, Bearskin Neck, New Jersey, New England, African Americans, American Planning Association, Fifth Avenue, Harvard University Press, Planning the Site, Clean Water Act, World Heritage, World War, Jane Jacobs, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Buildings Department, Mark Schuster, National Fire Protection Association, New Haven, Santa Ana New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs on 5 pages
- Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities by Michael Southworth on 4 pages
- From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors by Prof. Lawrence J. Vale on 4 pages
- Public Space (Cambridge Series in Environment and Behavior) by Stephen Carr on page 137, and page 165
- Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature by William Cronon on page 268, and page 332
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- Together Alone: Personal Relationships in Public Places by Calvin Morrill in Back Matter
- Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America by Eran Ben-Joseph in Front Matter
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