Urban Coding and Planning

Scholars of urban planning explore the impact of urban planning and building codes on the built landscape. Their topics include a chronicle of urban codes in pre-industrial London's streets and squares, the controlling urban code of Enlightenment Scotland, the Vastu Vidya codes of India as paradigms for design, pendular swings in concepts and codes in Adelaide's urban design, developing a new African urbanism, and how codes shaped development in the US and why they should be changed. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)