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City Rules offers a challenge to students and professionals in urban planning, design, and policy to change the rules of city-building, using regulations to reinvigorate, rather than stifle, our communities. Emily Talen demonstrates that regulations are a primary detriment to the creation of a desirable urban form. While many contemporary codes encourage sprawl and even urban blight, that hasn't always been the case-and it shouldn't be in the future.

Talen provides a visually rich history, showing how certain eras used rules to produce beautiful, walkable, and sustainable communities, while others created just the opposite. She makes complex regulations understandable, demystifying city rules like zoning and illustrating how written codes translate into real-world consequences. Most importantly, Talen proposes changes to these rules that will actually enhance communities' freedom to develop unique spaces.

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• Foreword(p. xi)
• Acknowledgments(p. xv)
• Chapter 1 Introduction(p. 1)
• Chapter 2 Regulating Place(p. 19)
• Chapter 3 Pattern(p. 37)
• Chapter 4 Use(p. 89)
• Chapter 5 Form(p. 127)
• Chapter 6 Reform(p. 175)
• Chapter 7 Conclusion(p. 201)
• References(p. 207)
• Index(p. 223)

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CHOICE Review

Talen (geographical sciences and urban planning, Arizona State Univ.) writes about how zoning codes have impacted patterns of urban development. The book points out many of the original purposes of zoning, and how those purposes have been undermined by more recent zoning practices, many of which have promoted low-density development that is unfriendly to pedestrian life. Talen's book also includes some discussion of the regulation of space in other nations, which helps to provide context for her detailed discussion of the practice of zoning in the US. She illustrates her arguments with many historical and contemporary examples from around the US, and the book's numerous diagrams and photographs make it more readable and give it potentially broad appeal. The author discusses reform proposals that would allow cities to become more flexible as well as those that allow for more predictability in zoning. Ultimately, Talen aims to create more "walkable, diverse, compact, and beautiful" cities, and this book will be especially interesting and valuable to students of urban planning and architecture who share these important goals. Summing Up: Recommended. All readership levels. N. Kraus University of Wisconsin--River Falls

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Emily Talen is Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and Director of the Phoenix Urban Research Lab at Arizona State University, She is also coeditor of the Journal of Urbanism.