
City Rules
How Regulations Affect Urban Form
Emily Talen(Author)
Shearwater Books,US (Publisher)
Published on 16. December 2011
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-59726-691-8 (ISBN)
Description
"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 rules like zoning and subdivision regulation are primary determinants of 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 communities, while others created just the opposite. She makes complex regulations understandable, demystifying zoning and illustrating how written rules translate into real-world consequences. Most importantly, Talen proposes changes to these rules that will actually enhance communities' freedom to develop unique spaces.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington
United States
Publishing group
Island Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-59726-691-8 (9781597266918)
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E-Book
06/2012
NYU Press
€45.49
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Person
Emily Talen is Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and Director of the Phoenix Urban Research Lab at Arizona State University. She is also Coeditor of the Journal of Urbanism.