Alex Lehnerer, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2009 (pp. 271, € 29,50 / inglese)
“There are books about grand cities, books about spectacular streets, and books about great architects. This book is about grand rules.” In the opinion of Alex Lehnerer, grand urban rules are what configure the shapes of cities. By collecting more than 100 such rules, extrapolated from systems that regulate some of the world’s most significant cities, Grand Urban Rules effectively illustrates how the modelling power of these non-innocent instruments of urban definition is concretely expressed.