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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | A comprehensive, illustrative guide to Form-Based Codes
"This volume describes in clear argument and significant detail the issues and techniques associated with the design and management of Form-Based Codes as an antidote to zoning and sprawl. Reading it and putting it to practice is an excellent point of departure for individuals and municipalities to safeguard and to grow their communities."
- From the Foreword by noted architect and urbanist Stefanos Polyzoides
Form-Based Codes are the latest evolutionary step in the practice of development and land-use regulation. A growing alternative to conventional zoning laws, Form-Based Codes go beyond land use to address not just the physical form of buildings but also surrounding streets, blocks, and public spaces in order to create, protect, and revitalize sustainable communities.
Written by three recognized leaders in the field of New Urbanism, including an urban planner and an architect, this book is the first to address this subject comprehensively. After defining Form-Based Codes and explaining why they are a necessary alternative to conventional zoning regulations, the authors detail the various components of Form-Based Codes and then go step by step through the process of creating and implementing them. Finally, a series of case studies illustrates best practice applications of Form-Based Coding at various scales from county-wide to site specific, and various project types from city-wide development code replacement to the preservation or evolution of downtowns.
This timely and accessible text features:
* More than 200 clear illustrations of Form-Based Codes
* Studies of real-world applications of Form-Based Coding by leading planners, urban designers, and architects
Form-Based Codes is a must-read for today's urban designers, urban planners, architects, and anyone with a vested interest in utilizing the latest regulatory tool to help create compact, walkable, and sustainable communities. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Daniel G. Parolek | | Hardcover: | 352 pages | | Publisher: | Wiley | | Publication Date: | March 21, 2008 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0470049855 | | Product Length: | 8.84 inches | | Product Width: | 1.22 inches | | Product Height: | 11.0 inches | | Product Weight: | 2.55 pounds | | Package Length: | 10.9 inches | | Package Width: | 8.8 inches | | Package Height: | 1.1 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.55 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 5 reviews |
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3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent and Exhaustive Introduction to Form-Based Codes Oct 13, 2008
By Urban Designer
This is a good book rich with resources to easily understand why Form-Based Codes are needed to improve the formless nature of sprawl. The book does an excellent job of making practitioners understand how to go about putting together a Form-Based Code. The materials in the book are well-organized and presented with clear graphics. For the case studies -- especially where the Form-Based Codes have been implemented -- it would have been great to see images of what improvements in the built environment were actually achieved. Regardless, if you are an architect, planner or urban designer, get this book as it will enable you to write effective Form-Based Codes and help create better public realms.
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Form-Based Codes Aug 08, 2008
By Harold Henderson
A good form-based code depends on sophisticated design insights. But the book's reason for being is to explain the job to people without sophisticated design insights. (How else to change an entire built environment in a hurry?) Hence its incredible level of detail, right down to the best typography to use in presenting the proposed code. The book sets a floor: followed faithfully, it can enable diligent but uncreative professionals to produce a better form-based code than they might otherwise. That form-based code in turn will enable diligent but uncreative professionals to produce a better town or neighborhood than they might otherwise. But will that floor over time become a ceiling? Predictable outcomes are what residents want; but creativity isn't predictable.
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2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Form Based Codes Jul 17, 2008
By Mohd Hisyam Rasidi
Form Based Codes provides an excellent ways to understand how design codes works in various stages in urban design field. I think this book guides very clear description in terms of preparing design codes and the management process. The material in this book illustrates excellently relationship between design and planning principles towards high quality environment. As an Urban Designer and Landscape Architect, I would like to express a great appreciation and many thanks to all authors.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Great intro to FBCs Feb 13, 2009
By Kenneth Caldwell
This is an excellent introduction to the history and implementation of Form Based Codes. Only complaints: many of the graphics are way too small to read without a microscope, and misspellings of Olmsted and rights-of-way in Polyzoides foreword.
Great book Feb 08, 2011
By Joshua Hail
On a recent project my assignment was to create a FBC for a local community that did not have codes. This book was informative, and helped me write codes for the town. It is a good step by step process book in order to do a great FBC and TOD (Transportation Orientated Design) community
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