The code of the city : standards and the hidden language of place making / Eran Ben-Joseph.

The code of the city : standards and the hidden language of place making /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ben-Joseph, Eran
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2005]
Series:Urban and industrial environments.
Subjects:
City planning > Standards.
City planning > Standards > United States.
City planning and redevelopment law > History.
City planning and redevelopment law > United States.
D'Agostino Memorial Book Fund (David D'Agostino)
Local Note:WIT BNA TOC 200804 jea.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : four tales
  • Introduction : standards and rules in shaping place
  • 1. Holding the commons
  • 2. Experts of the trade
  • 3. Neighborhoods developed scientifically
  • 4. Sanitized cities
  • 5. Regulating developers
  • 6. Second nature
  • 7. Private places and design innovation
  • 8. Technogenesis and the onset of civil design
  • 9. Places first
  • Afterword : places nonstandard
  • App. A. The code of the city - timeline
  • App. B. The code of the city - matrix.

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