| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 387 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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On standards / Eran Ben-Joseph -- Design standards : whose meanings? / John R. Stilgoe -- The political economy of urban design standards / Peter Van Doren -- Standardizing public housing / Lawrence J. Vale -- Local regulations and housing affordability / Anthony Downs -- Using and misusing law to design the public realm / Jerold S. Kayden -- Sidewalk democracy : municipalities and the regulation of public space / Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Evelyn Bluemberg, and Renia Ehrenfeucht -- Facing subdivision regulations / Eran Ben-Joseph -- The voluntary city : choice, community, and civil society / Peter Gordon, David T. Beito, and Alexander Tabarrok -- The benefits of non-zoning / Bernard H. Siegan -- Protecting Palos Verdes : the dark side of bourgeois utopia / Robert M. Fogelson -- From pollution controls to place making : the role of environmental regulation in creating communities place / William Shutkin -- Role of environmental regulation in shaping the built and natural environment / Virginia S. Albrecht -- Regulating as if humans matter : the transect and post-suburban planning / Andres Duany and David Brain -- Substituting information for regulation : in search of an alternative approach to shaping urban design / J. Mark Schuster -- Afterward : the changing regulatory template / Terry S. Szold |
| Summary |
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 reg |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
City planning -- United States
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City planning -- Standards -- United States
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Public housing -- United States.
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Land use -- United States -- Planning
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Cities and towns -- United States -- Growth -- Management
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Regional Planning.
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Cities and towns -- Growth -- Management
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City planning
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City planning -- Standards
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Land use -- Planning
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Public housing
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ben-Joseph, Eran
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Szold, Terry S., 1960-
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| LC no. |
2004011422 |
| ISBN |
0203998030 |
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9780203998038 |
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9780415948746 |
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0415948746 |
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9780415948753 |
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0415948754 |
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9786610107865 |
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6610107866 |
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1135933820 |
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9781135933821 |
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1280107863 |
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9781280107863 |
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1135933812 |
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9781135933814 |
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