The Type V City – Codifying Material Inequity in Urban America Ripple Hardback

The Type V CityCodifying Material Inequity in Urban America\nAuthor(s): Jeana Ripple\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9781477331620, 978-1477331620\nSynopsis\nHow building codes shaped material, social, and environmental landscapes in American cities.\n\n 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. \n\n 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 stor.