The Zoning Map and American City Form

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12076281
AutoresSteven T Moga (Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen37
Número3
Páginas271-285
Fecha de publicación2016-06-30
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Planning Education and Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0739-456X • E-ISSN: 1552-6577
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0739456x16654277
OpenAlexW2472455502
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas28

This paper investigates a common mode of visual communication in planning practice, the use of maps to regulate urban development. Holding equal legal status with the text, the zoning map was invented in the early twentieth century as a tool for implementing municipal policy and, although debated, modified, and sometimes repurposed over the past nine decades, it remains standard. Mundane and largely taken for granted, the zoning map itself has aroused little scholarly interest. However, as an image of the city and as a graphic intermediary used in administrative processes, it reveals how planning thought is embedded in planning tools

Civil engineering · Environmental planning · Geography · Mode (computer interface · Political science · Sociology · Urban planning · Urban policy · Zoning · Computer Science · Engineering · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Law · Public Administration · Urban Planning and Governance