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City Rules

How Regulations Affect Urban Form
  • ISBN-13: 9781597266925
  • Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
    Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
  • By Emily Talen
  • Price: AUD $102.00
  • Stock: 3 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 13/02/2012
  • Format: Paperback (150.00mm X 150.00mm) 256 pages Weight: 700g
  • Categories: Landscape art & architecture [AMV]
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City Rules offers a challenge to students and professionals in urban planning, design, and policy to change the rules of city-building, using regulations to reinvigorate, rather than stifle, our communities. Emily Talen demonstrates that regulations are a primary detriment to the creation of a desirable urban form. While many contemporary codes encourage sprawl and even urban blight, that hasn't always been the case-and it shouldn't be in the future. 
 
Talen provides a visually rich history, showing how certain eras used rules to produce beautiful, walkable, and sustainable communities, while others created just the opposite. She makes complex regulations understandable, demystifying city rules like zoning and illustrating how written codes translate into real-world consequences. Most importantly, Talen proposes changes to these rules that will actually enhance communities' freedom to develop unique spaces.

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Regulating Place

Chapter 3: Pattern

Chapter 4: Use

Chapter 5: Form

Chapter 6: Reform

Chapter 7: Conclusion

References

Index

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