Regulating place : standards and the shaping of urban America / / edited by Eran Ben-Joseph and Terry S. Szold

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450691303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2005
• ISBN: 1-135-93382-0; 1-280-10786-3; 0-203-99803-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (396 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): Ben-JosephEran; SzoldTerry S. <1960->
• Disciplina: 307.1/216/0973
• Soggetti: City planning - United States; City planning - Standards - United States; Public housing - United States; Land use - Planning - United States; Cities and towns - United States - Growth - Management; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: On standards / Eran Ben-Joseph -- Design standards : whose meaning? / 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 Blumenberg, 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 the 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 / Andrès 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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