Brenda Case Scheer, AICP is the Dean and Professor of Architecture and City Metropolitan for the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Utah.

Scheer's investigation of building types in the context of urbanism offers a rigorous introduction for students as well as a strong review for academics and practitioners. The book is especially valuable in that it avoids traditionalist nostalgia and tries to under--stand the most "disordered" parts of our American urban fabric in a way that is honest and optimistic about possibilities for change in the contemporary metropolis. -Marshall Brown, Illinois Institute of Technology This book helps link academic studies of building types with contemporary practice, by providing a clear introduction to the history, theory, and present-day attitudes toward building types. The language is clear, the illustrations well-chosen, and the relationship between history and contemporary ideas is strongly made. - Howard Davis, University of Oregon One of the most thoughtful and penetrating critiques of form-based regulations and new urbanism. Scheer provides a fresh perspective on the relation between ideal forms and actual places. Essential reading for all thinking planners and architects. -Christopher J. Duerksen

• 1. A Crisis in the Urban Landscape  2. The Origins and Theory of Type  3. Typological Transformation  4. Typology and Urban Transformation  5. Legitimacy and Control  6. Typology and the Disordered City  7. Type in Design and Practice  8. Transformation and Imagination

Brenda Case Scheer, AICP is the Dean and Professor of Architecture and City Metropolitan for the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Utah.

Scheer's investigation of building types in the context of urbanism offers a rigorous introduction for students as well as a strong review for academics and practitioners. The book is especially valuable in that it avoids traditionalist nostalgia and tries to under--stand the most "disordered" parts of our American urban fabric in a way that is honest and optimistic about possibilities for change in the contemporary metropolis. -Marshall Brown, Illinois Institute of Technology This book helps link academic studies of building types with contemporary practice, by providing a clear introduction to the history, theory, and present-day attitudes toward building types. The language is clear, the illustrations well-chosen, and the relationship between history and contemporary ideas is strongly made. - Howard Davis, University of Oregon One of the most thoughtful and penetrating critiques of form-based regulations and new urbanism. Scheer provides a fresh perspective on the relation between ideal forms and actual places. Essential reading for all thinking planners and architects. -Christopher J. Duerksen

• 1. A Crisis in the Urban Landscape  2. The Origins and Theory of Type  3. Typological Transformation  4. Typology and Urban Transformation  5. Legitimacy and Control  6. Typology and the Disordered City  7. Type in Design and Practice  8. Transformation and Imagination