The Business of Codes: Urban Design Regulation in an Entrepreneurial Society

Urban Design in the Real Estate Development Process

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 114-136

  Marantz, Nicholas J ^a   Ben Joseph, Eran ^b  

^a MIT's ^*  (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

American planning history; Early German planning; Green building; LEED ND rating system; Livable communities; New Urbanism; Real estate developers; Urban design regulation; Zoning regulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886105853     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444341188.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

References (3)

1. Between 1870 and 1900, the population of the 50 largest American cities increased from 5,775,778 to 15,247,946.
2. 'Fireproof requirements, plumbing rules, tenement house laws, strength of construction requirements, all come within the police power. They are exercised without compensation being made to the private owner subjected to regulation. ... The police power can as well be employed for zoning as for uniform sanitary and fire protection laws.' (Bassett 1922: 320) (emphasis added)
3. '[I]t is to Germany ... that we must go for our models.' (Howe 1911a: 486). See also Howe 1910b, 1910c, 1911c, 1912 and 1913b.