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FBC Building Types

Submitted by zoe on Fri, 05/02/2008 - 3:44pm.
Description: Organizing a code around specific building types and their precise dimensional requirements is common in form-based codes, often in contrast to using measures such as FAR, height, and density. How does the use of building types work? What are some approaches to integrating them at ... read more »

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Form Based Code Organizing Principles

Submitted by zoe on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 4:26pm.
Description: In Form-Based Codes, the zones are categorized by the intensity of physical form. A variety of organizing principles regulate the scale, form, and intensity of development rather than emphasizing land uses. Those organizing principles include the Transect, Frontages, Street- Types ... read more »

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Checking the Codes: CNU's New Urbanist Land Development Regulations Project

Submitted by Filmanowicz on Tue, 04/17/2007 - 9:10pm.
Description: Translating new urbanist principles into effective development regulations is a challenge for everyone from city council members to land use lawyers. Members working on CNU’s project on land development regulations briefly describe some of the project’s greatest challenges, and... read more »

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CNU IX Program

Submitted by Filmanowicz on Tue, 04/10/2007 - 5:03pm.
Description: CNU IX (New York City, 2001) focused tightly on four tracks: the region, the neighborhood, design, and codes. Most of the conference was devoted to large group sessions, placing the emphasis on the plenary speakers. The first day offered a new six-hour course, New Urbanism 101, whi... read more »

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