The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making

摘要

Twenty years ago, it would have been unusual for an accomplished site planner and educator with as broad a frame of reference as Eran Ben-Joseph to write a book about land use codes, or for such a book, once written, to find an audience beyond a few dedicated town planners and zoning lawyers.rnWhat changed? New Urbanism became a major force in urban design and planning. New Urbanism has occasioned its own debate about its alleged evangelism, rigidity, and antimodernism, but it has had the salutary effect of shining a bright light on how seemingly innocuous provisions in zoning or subdivision codes affect the built world in unforeseen, durable, and sometimes pernicious ways.