Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America by Eran Ben-Joseph, Terry S. Szold
By Eran Ben-Joseph, Terry S. Szold
Tracing how codes arose after they did, and the way they have been tailored through the years, the authors research the expanding impact of regulatory codes over city layout and making plans long ago century.
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210-8—210-15. On the picturesque as Americans understand it in the United States, see John R. Stilgoe, Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820—1939 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 42 • John R. Stilgoe 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 1988): 23—28 and Passim. On quaint seacoast places, see John R. Stilgoe, Alongshore (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994): esp. 295—332. Bearskin Neck is one constituent in an ongoing analysis of wood-frame urban areas.
42 But Bearskin Neck focused all its tourist-attracting effort. In 1800 local quarrymen began building the present network of granite docks and piers, and the public works stimulated not only the fishing industry, but the building of shipyards, bait and clam houses, and ship chandleries around the circa-1775 Punch Bowl Tavern. “These buildings were all shapes, sizes, angles, and colors, as though some nor’easter had blown them there, and no one had taken the trouble to straighten them out,” enthused one 1924 publicist.
In 2001, Congress appropriated $125 million for a Center of Disease Control and Prevention effort aimed at making children between the ages of 9 and 13 more physically active. Wire services reported this effort on June 29, 2002. Todd L. Savitt, Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978): 19—35. Karen O. Kupperman, “Fear of Hot Climates in the Anglo-American Colonial Experience,” William and Mary Quarterly 41 (April, 1984): 213—240.