Content tagged with "city-planning"
Exurb
“It’s a portmanteau of ‘extra’ and ‘urban.’ The Brookings Institution published a report in 2006 that identified three criteria: Found in a book about a lawsuit: In 1999, as Ted Lyon worked on the Smalley case, he hired a security firm to sweep for listening devices in his offices, located on the…”
Floor Area Ratio
“This is a zoning code formula that compares the total floor size of a building to the lot size it’s built on. There are rules around this number. For example, if I want to build a 100-story building with each floor having 20,000 square feet of space, that’s a total of 2 million square feet of floor…”