• Sweet City Curridabat Pond

    Sweet City: Defeating the City-Nature Antagonism

    Recovering urban nature for a healthier city
    The first city in Costa Rica to adopt form-based coding has created a citywide plan to connect urban neighborhoods to nature. Sweet City is the next phase of a Charter Award-winning plan of 2014. The majority of Curridabat’s 72,500 citizens live among public spaces dominated by asphalt— inhibiting...Read more
  • Columbia Pike Initiative Arlington plaza

    Columbia Pike Initiative

    A Toll Road Goes Mixed-Use, Overcomes Strip Malls
    “It is very easy to photograph a forlorn street and use a computer to calm the traffic, put in some transit, and add lovely buildings and trees,” wrote Jeff Speck, bemoaning the proliferation of unexecuted corridor studies. “So few of these projects have been executed that, for a time, I argued...Read more
  • CincinnatiFBC Cincinnati neighborhood framework

    Cincinnati Citywide Form-based Code

    A Landmark in Form-Based Coding
    Codes don’t happen in a void. Cincinnati Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls and Planning Director Charles Graves put their weight behind the creation of a form-based code to inspire the revitalization of their urban neighborhoods. A Community Challenge Planning Grant from The Department of Housing and Urban...Read more
  • Form Based Codes Beaufort County pedestrian view

    Beaufort County Multijurisdictional Form-Based Code/Land Development Code

    A Regional Tool for Resilience
    Beaufort County, a Lowcountry South Carolina region of historic towns and magnificent estuaries, is growing at a phenomenal rate—putting pressure on public services, infrastructure, quality of life, and the natural environment. Now, a form-based code backed by a shared growth vision in three...Read more