This book provides an excellent framework for analyzing the problems of contemporary planning and design, and why we are unable to build effective low-cost housing and have been forced to rely on private community development. -- Setha Low, The Graduate Center, City University of New York This is not just one more book on American planning. It is the one intelligible and comprehensive explanation of the genetic basis behind the places that we inhabit. Codes are just that: the DNA of our cities. This book will be a revelation to those under the mistaken impression that our excellent or dismal living conditions are somehow inevitable. -- Andres Duany, Congress for the New Urbanism
Eran Ben-Joseph has worked as a city planner and urban designer in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the United States. Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning at MIT, he is the author of The Code of the City (MIT Press) and coauthor of Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities and RENEW Town.
[The book] does a commendable job of combining environmental
consciousness, a general awareness of New Urbanism's principles,
and a detailed knowledge of how conventional approaches to
development and regulation have failed, not only in the US but
worldwide.
*New Urban News*
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