Form-Based Codes, Flagstaff & Education
Flagstaff adopted a form-based code for the city’s downtown and neighboring historic districts in November 2011. As the city’s Zoning Code Administrator, I’ve helped to guide the code making since its...
View ArticleStreet Trees & the Virtues of FBCs
Though tempted, I won’t write a soliloquy today on the many virtues of street trees.read more
View ArticleVirtues of FBCs & Street Trees
Though tempted, I won’t write a soliloquy today on the many virtues of street trees.read more
View ArticleStreet Trees & the Virtues of FBCs
Though tempted, I won’t write a soliloquy today on the many virtues of street trees.read more
View ArticleFundamentals 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...
View ArticleStreet 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 than I, including Allan Jacobs, who wrote in the book Great Streets, “Given a limited...
View ArticleThe True Effectiveness of FBCs
In the words of Socrates, “By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.” For those of us devoted to the arduous and complex...
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Form-Based Codes, Flagstaff & Education
Flagstaff adopted a form-based code for the city’s downtown and neighboring historic districts in November 2011. As the city’s Zoning Code Administrator, I’ve helped to guide the code making since its...
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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 than I, including Allan Jacobs, who wrote in the book Great Streets, “Given a limited...
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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 and beautify cities and human communities.” For those of us devoted to the arduous and complex...
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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...
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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...
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Cincinnati Neighborhood Adopts Form-Based Code
How Madisonville could look if future development follows a form-based approach How to make a big city Form-Based Code? An important effort is underway in Cincinnati, where the city’s new code was...
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Form-Based Codes
CMAP Guide for Communities 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...
View ArticleVisualizing Better Rules
The video below shows several before and after examples of how well-implemented form-based codes can transform the development of public spaces into environments of the highest quality. Each example...
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Now We’re Talking
Those of us in the Form-Based Codes world too easily forget how obscure our work must seem to those unfamiliar with what we do. And yet, if the practice of form-based coding and related reform of land...
View Article2014 Driehaus Award
The Driehaus Form-Based Codes Award is presented annually by FBCI with the generous support of the Richard H. Driehaus Charitable Lead Trust. The selection is rigorous and is made by a Jury of...
View ArticleJoel Russell of Form-Based Codes Institute Quoted in Hartford Business
Hartford Business.com quotes Joel Russell, Executive Director of Form-Based Codes Institute and Alan Mammoser, Program Director on how the Hartford Group and the town of Simsbury, CT developed a form...
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FBCI Instructor: Goes to School on Form-Based Codes
Tony Perez, Opticos Design’s Director of Form-Based Coding, has gone back to school this spring, teaching a graduate-level studio dedicated to Form-Based Coding at California State Polytechnic...
View ArticleFBCI Fundraiser: Zoning for Walkable Communities
As you know, form-based codes are critical and necessary in shaping the quality of life in our cities and neighborhoods, yet the vast majority of the people who would support them have no idea they...
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