Urban Coding and Planning [Paperback]

Urban codes have a profound influence on urban form, affecting the design and placement of buildings, streets and public spaces. Historically, their use has helped create some of our best-loved urban environments, while recent advances in coding have been a growing focus of attention, particularly in Britain and North America. However, the full potential for the role of codes has yet to be realized.

In Urban Coding and Planning, Stephen Marshall and his contributors investigate the nature and scope of coding; its purposes; the kinds of environments it creates; and, perhaps most importantly, its relationship to urban planning.

By bringing together historical and ongoing traditions of coding from around the world  with chapters describing examples from the United Kingdom, France, India, China, Japan, Australia, South Africa, the United States and Latin America  this book provides lessons for todays theory and practice of place-making.

1. Introduction  2. A Chronicle of Urban Codes in Pre-Industrial Londons Streets and Squares  3. The Controlling Urban Code of Enlightenment Scotland  4. The Ideal and the Real: Urban Codes in the Spanish-American Lettered City  5. Paradigms for Design: the Vastu Vidya Codes of India  6. Prescribing the Ideal City: Building Codes and Planning Principles in Beijing  7. Machizukuri and Urban Codes in Historical and Contemporary Kyoto  8. Adelaides Urban Design: Pendular Swings in Concepts and Codes  9. Coding in the French Planning System: From Building Line to Morphological Zoning  10. Coding as Bottom-Up Planning: Developing a New Africl#