Publications

A Case for Beauty: The History and Philosophy of Code Enforcement investigates how changes in urban life gave birth to this new occupation called code enforcement, and how the natural human inclination towards beautifying life makes code enforcement focus on increasingly cosmetic violations.

How Code Enforcement Balances Current Codes and Their Predecessors makes the case for why the study of old historic codes helps makes present-day code enforcement possible.  "We are the antiquarians of the construction industry."