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The Book Shines Light On The Problem Of Judgment, Particularly In The Realm Of Architectural Technics And The Codes That Regulate It. The Struggle To Define Sustainability, And Thus Judge Architecture Through Such Lenses, Is But One Dimension Of The Contemporary Problem Of Judgment. By Providing The Reader With An Inherently Interdisciplinary Study Of A Particular Discipline--architecture, It Brings To The Topic Lenses That Challenge The Too Frequently Unexamined Assumptions Of The Discipline. By Situating Architecture Within A Broader Cultural Field And Using Case Studies To Dissect The Issues Discussed, The Book Emphasizes That It Is Not Simply A Matter Of Designing Better, More Efficient, Or More Stringent Codes To Guide Place-making, But A Matter Of Reconstructing The Boundaries Of The Systems To Be Coded. Maintaining Frames: Architecture-as-art -- Expanding Frames: Architecture-as-technology -- Standardization, Justice, And The Built Environment -- Frame Analysis As A Practical Tool -- Tacit Codes In Traditional And Modern Building Cultures -- Sumptuary Codes, Taste, And Distinction In The Built World -- Economic Codes And The Civic Economy -- Social Groups, Technological Frames, And Focal Events -- Coding Disability: A Case Study Of Frame Integration -- Coding Affordable Housing: A Case Study Of Frame Transformation -- Sociotechnical Coding As Design. Steven A. Moore And Barbara B. Wilson. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 254-275) And Index.