Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America

by Ben-Joseph; Eran

• ISBN13: 9780415948746
• ISBN10: 0415948746
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Regulating Placelooks at how design standards have shaped the built environment of urban America. Tracing the history behind the evolution of building codes, the contributors examine the increasing influence of regulatory codes over urban design and planning during the past century. From the environment to housing to public space, the volume considers the positive and negative effects of regulation on American cities - particularly the merits of flexible approaches relative to more rigid, technocratic methods.Regulating Placealso questions what sort of criteria should be used to measure regulatory success and what are the legal, political and economic implications of re-structuring standards and design guidelines.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
1 On Standards	1	(16)
ERAN BEN-JOSEPH
Part One Standards: Origins and Evolution
2 Design Standards: Whose Meanings?	17	(28)
JOHN R. STILGOE
3. The Political Economy of Urban Design Standards	45	(22)
PETER VAN DOREN
4. Standardizing Public Housing	67	(36)
LAWRENCE J. VALE
5. Local Regulations and Housing Affordability	103	(12)
ANTHONY DOWNS
Part Two Standards and the Shaping of Private Space and Public Realm
6. Using and Misusing Law to Design the Public Realm	115	(26)
JEROLD S. KAYDEN
7. Sidewalk Democracy: Municipalities and the Regulation of Public Space	141	(26)
ANASTASIA LOUKAITOU-SIDERIS, EVELYN BLUMENBERG, AND RENIA EHRENFEUCHT
8. Facing Subdivision Regulations	167	(22)
ERAN BEN-JOSEPH
Part Three Private Land Use Controls: Voluntary Devices
9. The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society	189	(14)
PETER GORDON, DAVID T. BEITO, AND ALEXANDER TABARROK
10. The Benefits of Non-Zoning	203	(30)
BERNARD H. SIEGAN
11. Protecting Palos Verdes: The Dark Side of the Bourgeois Utopia	233	(20)
ROBERT M. FOGELSON
Part Four Designed for Change: Regulatory Reform and Emerging Approaches
12. From Pollution Control to Place Making: The Role of Environmental Regulation in Creating Communities Place	253	(18)
WILLIAM SHUTKIN
13. Role of Environmental Regulation in Shaping the Built and Natural Environment	271	(22)
VIRGINIA S. ALBRECHT
14. Regulating as if Humans Matter: The Transect and Post-Suburban Planning	293	(40)
ANDRÉS DUANY AND DAVID BRAIN
15. Substituting Information for Regulation: In Search of an Alternative Approach to Shaping Urban Design	333	(26)
J. MARK SCHUSTER
16. Afterword: The Changing Regulatory Template	359	(12)
TERRY S. SZOLD
About the Editors	371	(2)
Contributors	373	(8)
Index	381