Contents ‘The Contributors ‘Acknowledgements 1 12, Introduction Stephen Maral! [A Chronicle of Urban Codes in Pre-Industrial London's Streets and Squares Nick Green ‘The Controlling Urban Code of Enlightenment Scotland Charles McKean ‘The Ideal and the Real: Urban Codes in the Spanish-American Lettered City _Jean-Frangos Lejeune Paradigms for Design: the Vastu Vidya Codes of India Vibha Sacdeo Prescribing the Ideal City: Building Codes and Planning Principles in Beijing Qinghua Gao ‘Machizidsri and’ Urban Codes in Historical and Contemporary Kyoto Yoshiko Baba [Adclaide’s Urban Design: Pendular Swings in Concepts and Codes Barrie helo Coding in the French Planning System: From Bu Zoning, Karl Krogh ding Line to Morphological Coding as ‘Botton Gerald Step Up’ Planning: Developing a New Affican Urbanism How Codes Shaped Development in the United States, and Why They Should Be Changed Jonathan Barnett, Conclusions ‘Stephen Marshall Bibliography Index 4 33 59 101 120 136 158 180 201 227 24 255