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Regulating Place

Standards and the Shaping of Urban America

By: Eran Ben-Joseph (Editor), Terry S. Szold (Editor)

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Hardcover | 7 December 2004 | Edition Number 1

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396 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54

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"Regulating Place" looks at how design standards have shaped the built environment of urban America. Tracing the history behind the evolution of building codes, the contributors examine the increasing influence of regulatory codes over urban design and planning during the past century. From the environment to housing to public space, the volume considers the positive and negative effects of regulation on American cities - particularly the merits of flexible approaches relative to more rigid, technocratic methods. "Regulating Place" also questions what sort of criteria should be used to measure regulatory success and what are the legal, political and economic implications of re-structuring standards and design guidelines.

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"No topic in urban design could be more controversial than standards for places. Regulating Place explores the relationship of public and private in the context of new approaches to guidelines, laws, and mechanisms of enforcement. This is an important collection of essays for practitioners, students, and teachers. Highly recommended.
Dolores Hayden, Yale University, author of A Field Guide to Sprawl and Building Suburbia: GreenFields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000

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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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