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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962121103321

Titolo

Urban coding and planning / / edited by Stephen Marshall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-135-68927-X

0-203-71756-2

1-283-88380-5

1-135-68920-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Planning, history and environment series

Altri autori (Persone)

MarshallStephen <1967->

Disciplina

307.1/216

Soggetti

City planning

Urban policy

Design

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

Front Cover; Urban Coding and Planning; Copyright Page; Contents; The Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Stephen Marshall; 2. A Chronicle of Urban Codes in Pre-Industrial London's Streets and Squares: Nick Green; 3. The Controlling Urban Code of Enlightenment Scotland: Charles McKean; 4. The Ideal and the Real: Urban Codes in the Spanish-American Lettered City: Jean-François Lejeune; 5. Paradigms for Design: the Vastu Vidya Codes of India: Vibhuti Sachdev; 6. Prescribing the Ideal City: Building Codes and Planning Principles in Beijing: Qinghua Guo

7. Machizukuri and Urban Codes in Historical and Contemporary Kyoto: Yoshihiko Baba8. Adelaide's Urban Design: Pendular Swings in Concepts and Codes: Barrie Shelton; 9. Coding in the French Planning System: From Building Line to Morphological Zoning: Karl Kropf; 10. Coding as 'Bottom-Up' Planning: Developing a New African Urbanism: Gerald Steyn; 11. How Codes Shaped Development in the United States, and Why They Should Be Changed: Jonathan Barnett; 12. Conclusions: Stephen Marshall; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Urban codes have a profound influence on urban form, affecting the design and placement of buildings, streets and public spaces.



Historically, their use has helped create some of our best-loved urban environments, while recent advances in coding have been a growing focus of attention, particularly in Britain and North America. However, the full potential for the role of codes has yet to be realized. In Urban Coding and Planning, Stephen Marshall and his contributors investigate the nature and scope of coding; its purposes; the kinds of environments it creates; and, pe