Content tagged with "city-planning"

Exurb
Explanation
April 2, 2022
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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
Explanation
November 7, 2021
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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…