Main entry:

Ben-Joseph, Eran.

Title & Author:

The code of the city : standards and the hidden language of place making / Eran Ben-Joseph.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.

Description:

xxi, 241 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Urban and industrial environments

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-230) and index.
Prologue: Four Tales ix -- Introduction: Standards and Rules in Shaping Place xiii -- I The Rise of the Rule Book -- 1 Holding the Commons 3 -- 2 Experts of the Trade 25 -- 3 Neighborhoods Developed Scientifically 47 -- II Locked in Place -- 4 Sanitized Cities 77 -- 5 Regulating Developers 101 -- 6 Second Nature 117 -- III Altering Inherited Traits -- 7 Private Places and Design Innovation 133 -- 8 Technogenesis and the Onset of Civic Design 151 -- 9 Places First 167 -- Afterword: Places Nonstandard 187 -- Appendix A The Code of the City-Timeline 191 -- Appendix B The Code of the City-Matrix 201.
Also issued online.

Summary:

The author examines the relationship between standards and place making. He traces the evolution of codes and standards and analyses their impact on the modern city and its suburbs, arguing that it is time for development regulations to reflect site-specific and localised physical design.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0262025884 (alk. paper)
9780262025881 (alk. paper)
0262524457 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780262524452 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning Standards.
City planning Standards United States.
City planning and redevelopment law History.
City planning and redevelopment law United States.
City planning and redevelopment law.
Urbanisme Normes.
Urbanisme Normes États-Unis.
Urbanisme Droit.
Urbanisme Droit États-Unis.
Stadtplanung
United States
USA

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Urban and industrial environments.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 243480
Call No.: BIB 173229
Status: Available