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Now We’re Talking

We all value living in thriving healthy communities.

Ped-Bike Advocates and Urbanists: Get Together

It’s about placement of buildings and parking lots and street trees.

Dialing-In Your Zoning To Fit Your Community

Unlike conventional zoning, FBCs may be finely tuned for each community, according to its unique physical structure.

Visualizing Better Rules

Form-based codes can transform the development of public spaces. Watch this video to see transformations taking place one step at a time.

Reflections from FBCI Director Carol Wyant

It’s been a wonderful 10 years at the head of this organization

Strategies For Project Review Under A Form-Based Code

Form-based codes (FBCs) allow communities to implement a plan

A Step-by-Step Guide to Form-Based Codes

FBCI was very pleased to discover Form-Based Codes: A Step-by-Step Guide for Communities, recently published by the Chicago regional planning agency, CMAP. In fact, we like this little booklet so much that we’ve put our imprimatur on it showing our endorsement. This well-illustrated CMAP handbook explains what form-based codes are, that their purpose is to make places. In clear and concise language, […]

Cincinnati Neighborhood Adopts Form-Based Code

How to make a big city Form-Based Code? An important effort is underway in Cincinnati, where the city’s new code was adopted in May. Although citywide, the code depends on neighborhoods to take charge of their own development. It is intended to apply to 42 neighborhoods throughout the city, making it one of the largest […]

An Architect’s New Media

for Designers + Builders A new book by Steve Mouzon, New Media for Designers + Builders, is a must read for entrepreneurs working in any part of community development. Mouzon is author of The Original Green and writes a popular blog of the same name. In this new book he tells his own story, as […]

Fundamentals of Fenestration

How much of a building exterior is covered with openings, in particular windows and doors, how transparent the enclosing glass is, and how the openings are arranged are issues of fenestration. Not all form-based codes concern themselves with building fenestration. FBCs commonly regulate street width, block size, and buildings’ disposition on their lots and orientation […]