FBC 101 (Virtual Edition) is back this spring!
Last fall, the Form-Based Codes Institute successfully hosted its most popular class–FBC 101: The ABCs …
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 [...]
for Designers + Builders A new book by Steve Mouzon, New Media for Designers + Builders, is a must read [...]
How much of a building exterior is covered with openings, in particular windows and doors, how transparent the enclosing glass [...]
The True Effectiveness of Form-Based Codes
In the words of Socrates, “By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan [...]
Street Trees & The Virtues of FBCs
Though tempted, I won’t write a soliloquy today on the many virtues of street trees. Others have done so better [...]
Form-Based Codes, Flagstaff & Education
A key ingredient to our success in Flagstaff: it is the essential importance of education from the very beginning to [...]
Market-Responsive Form-Based Codes
Form-based codes voluntarily adopted by developers show how this kind of land-use regulation can offer high market adaptability while assuring [...]
Assessing Criticisms Of Form-Based Codes
By their very nature FBCs faces many hurdles. Over the last century, we have separated zoning standards from physical planning, [...]
Ways To Fail At Form-Based Codes: Don’t Articulate A Vision
All of the goals in the Community Vision assume the principle of Connectivity: a fine network of thoroughfares should knit [...]
Why Design Guidelines, On Their Own, Don’t Work
A key barrier to protecting and creating distinctive places is lack of clear and precise place-based standards and a predictable [...]