Content tagged with “city-planning”
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Exurb
“It’s a portmanteau of ‘extra’ and ‘urban.’ The Brookings Institution published a report in 2006 that identified three criteria: Economic connection to a large metropolis. Low housing density: bottom third of census tracts with regard to housing density. In 2000, this was a minimum of 2.6 acres…”
Floor Area Ratio
“This is a zoning code formula that compares the total floor size of a building (all floors together) 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…”