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

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Ben-Joseph, Eran.; Szold, Terry S., 1960-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: vii, 387 p. :; ill.

Table of 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.