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Cincinnati Neighborhood Adopts Form-Based Code

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 [...]

An Architect’s New Media

An Architect’s New Media

for Designers + Builders A new book by Steve Mouzon, New Media for Designers + Builders, is a must read [...]

Fundamentals of Fenestration

Fundamentals of Fenestration

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 [...]

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