From the individual citizen to the federal bureaucrat, we need to start having a fundamentally different conversation about how we build our shared living spaces.
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A basic universal code can help us create productive, economically successful developments while allowing for maximum flexibility for developers, business owners and residents.
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A traditional pattern of development requires zoning that is fine-grained, geographically contextual and responsive to observable feedback.
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A hierarchical zoning model would allow greater development flexibility and remove needless rules from our zoning codes. Here's how to do it.
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This neighborhood has three different types of streets to meet different needs—but all of them provide ample room for the best indicator species of success: people.
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When affordability meets flexibility, the result tends to be the democratization of a local real estate market.
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If planners learn to determine what the public will is and apply themselves in service to that public will, our municipalities can be that much closer to towns well planned.
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If zoning codes are the primary tool in a planner's toolbox, that's a problem. Here's a three part system that would offer a better way for planners to design cities.
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