The Type V City

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The Type V City is written by Jeana Ripple and published by Applied Research & Design. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1940743729 (ISBN 10) and 9781940743721 (ISBN 13).

Early American city builders developed material regulations that define where and when specific building materials can be used based on a singular urban risk, conflagration. Over the next century, building codes translated fire protection goals into rules addressing vulnerabilities at the building scale--including occupancy, building height, and property line proximity--to define the range of allowable building materials in specific locations. The resulting "Construction Types" produced a product-scale material performance mentality and gave rise to urban neighborhoods characterized by a dominant building material with correlating delineations of socioeconomic vulnerability. Encoded in these material choices and the patterns they establish, one can find a direct link between building codes, construction materials, financial policy, and overall quality of life, marking an essential arena for social and economic debate in the built environment.