It may seem that city planners and designers are most interested in understanding the process of transformation of cities and towns. However, commissioners, developers, consultants, interested citizens and everyone else involved in community planning and the land development process can participate in such an important process for society. We're dealing with where we live.
This discussion is very important to understand the different ideas on the subject and thus to level the knowledge through the best recommendations of readings and approaches. What is your opinion about Form-Based Codes?
Form based codes can help to transform cities and towns especially in adjusting geo-locators/ including security camera, sound tracker, in drawing or easing route maps for visitors, in installing signposts of round about, curves, in enhancing competition among community of different blocks in light of humanitarian initiatives, peace keeping, material/financial donation, technology diffusion, in excising sustainable governance, for promoting and recommending best experiences of cities /towns to others, and ultimately developing standards for branding and city marketing, etc.
Tarekegn Girma Fanta, thank you for your contribution. How about knowing more about this at: https://formbasedcodes.org/
Thanks to your opinion John Mellet
, the code of communities not only serves for the development of new communities, but also for existing communities. Here's the Las Vegas case. The City of Las Vegas is applying a form-based code to implement its master plan vision of becoming a lively mixed-use urban environment centered around transit hubs and activity nodes. The code applies to the Downtown Las Vegas Overlay District – an area containing 12 districts unique in character, demographics, and building form. Existing base zones and interim standards are replaced when the city adopts the form-based code for each district. Although the code is currently applied only to the Medical District, the framework is robust, versatile, and designed to easily incorporate new transects and building types needed for additional districts in the future. The illustrations make this code easy to use and the standards for street trees, buildings, frontages, civic spaces, and thoroughfares are exceptional. This is the first form-based code in Nevada.The code was adopted on October 19, 2018 and can be found on the City’s form-based code website: http://formbasedcode.vegas/the-form-based-code/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230738894_Peri-Urban_to_Urban_Landscape_Patterns_Elucidation_through_Spatial_Metrics
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229826816_Empirical_patterns_of_the_influence_of_Spatial_Resolution_of_Remote_Sensing_Data_on_Landscape_Metrics
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