Urban Coding and Planning Urban codes hive 4 profound influence on wba form, affecting the design and placement of buildings, sects and public spaces, Historically, their use has helped create some of our best-loved urban environments, while recent advances in coding have boon a growing focus of tention, particularly in Britain and North America, However the Gull potential forthe toe of coves has yet tobe realized In Urban Coding and Planning, Sopher: Marsbll sid bis contributors investigate the nature and scope of coding; its purposes; the kinds of environments it creates; and, perhaps most importantly, relationship to wrhan planning. By bringing together historical and ongoing eaditions of coding from around the world = with chapters describing examples from the United Kingsom, France, India, China, Japan, Australia, South Africa, the United Stites and Latin America ~ this book provider lessons for today’s theory and practice of place-making, Stephon Mentall is Senior Lecturer 2t the Barlett School of Planning, University College London,