The Type V City
Codifying Material Inequity in Urban America
Seiten
2025
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-3162-0 (ISBN)
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-3162-0 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Jeana Ripple is the chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Virginia and the founder and principal of Mir Collective Architects.
List of Acronyms
Introduction
Type V Chicago: Durability and Disinvestment
Type V New York: Saturation and Health
Type V Philadelphia: Labor and Affordability
Type V Tampa: Occupancy and Urban Vitality
Type V Seattle: Adaptive Capacity and Lifespan
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.09.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 33 b&w photos, 19 b&w illustrations, 11 maps, 20-page color insert |
| Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| Technik ► Bauwesen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4773-3162-X / 147733162X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4773-3162-0 / 9781477331620 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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