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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ben-Joseph, Eran.

Szold, Terry S., 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--United States.

City planning.

Cities and towns.

Growth.

Management.

City planning--Standards.

United States.

City planning--Standards--United States.

Public housing--United States.

Public housing.

Land use--United States--Planning.

Land use.

Planning.

Cities and towns--United States--Growth--Management.

Physical Description:

vii, 387 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2005.

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 regulatory success and what are the legal, political and economic implications of re-structuring standards and design guidelines.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415948746

0415948754

OCLC:

55207744