The Type V City(English, Hardcover, Ripple Jeana)

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The Type V City(English, Hardcover, Ripple Jeana) is written by Ripple Jeana and published by University of Texas Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 147733162X (ISBN 10) and 9781477331620 (ISBN 13).

How building codes shaped material, social, and environmental landscapes in American cities. Almost every American city contains neighborhoods dominated by wood frame construction-light, cheap, combustible, and requiring the lowest upfront investment of labor and material in the building industry. Known as a Type V (five) construction in the terminology of building codes, these buildings became ubiquitous in the American urban landscape thanks to the abundance of timber, housing affordability aspirations, and the adoption of a uniform code. In The Type V City, Jeana Ripple examines the social and spatial history of building codes and material patterns in five cities-New York, Tampa, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Seattle-to reframe the stories of America's building priorities, methods, negotiations, and assumptions. By examining the development of building materials and codes alongside the environmental, social, economic, and political context of each city's development, Ripple reveals previously overlooked connections between the power structures underpinning regulatory evolution and the impacts that lay just beyond the frame of city builders' priorities. Handsomely illustrated and informed by both archival research and insights enabled by contemporary data analysis, The Type V City critiques the homogenous construction practices underlying US urbanization and raises pointed questions for future generations of data-driven city planners and architects.