The Code Of The City: Standards And The Hidden Language Of Place Making, By Eran Ben-joseph.

摘要

This book addresses the important question of how regulations affect the design of the built environment in cities. The first part, "The Rise of the Rule Book," focuses on the subdivision of urban land, starting with the earliest cities of Mesopotamia and including the U.S. Land Ordinance Survey. It provides information about surveying as an activity that plays a determining role in shaping cities and about the neighborhood-planning models that have set the tone for most of the contemporary subdivisions. The second part of the book, "Locked in Place," addresses urban infrastructure, including the technology of wastewater, street standards and layouts, and land-grading techniques. The third part, "Altering Inherited Traits," presents ways in which the constraining effects of increasingly numerous and rigid regulations in contemporary cities can be mitigated.