Urban coding and planning / / edited by Stephen Marshall

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.1/216
• Soggetto topico: City planning; Urban policy; Design
• Altri autori: MarshallStephen <1967->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Urban coding and planning
• ISBN: 1-135-68927-X; 0-203-71756-2; 1-283-88380-5; 1-135-68920-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910962121103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Planning, history, and the environment series.