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Book Review: “The Type V City” Examines Spread of Wood Frame Buildings

The Architect’s Newspaper

Perhaps not since Chicago’s Great Fire have building codes been so contested, yet Jeana Ripple is surprisingly silent on some of the most salient building code debates of the present day. Nonetheless, her book provides valuable historical context for the origins and impacts of these codes, including lessons that will be of value to today’s building code reformers.

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