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

Imprint New York : Routledge, 2005.

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Description vii, 387 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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 / 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Ben-Joseph, Eran.
Szold, Terry S., 1960-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0415948746 (hc : alk. paper)
0415948754 (pb : alk. paper)

 
    
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