First, he is an advocate of the Small Business Jobs Survival Act, which would make it easier for small retailers to extend their lease in neighborhoods with rising rents. Second, he favors zoning laws that would limit the density of chain stores. He and others have also called for “...
The urban designs of Le Corbusier, for example, entail rules that designate in detail the placement and uses of all the major structures in a “radiant city,” much as detailed land-use zoning codes do in a more limited way, while ignoring the contextual and tacit rules that align more wi...
Deep Simulation: You can manage detailed systems like traffic, public transport, pollution, and resources. Districts and Policies: You can split your city into special areas and set unique rules to help them grow and have their own character. Day and Night Cycle: You can see your city change...
not 10. The only legal way to get more than a few units (indeed, up to 41 units!) was with only townhouses or multifamily on site, and so the original house will be demolished soon. Inflexible planning rules (minimum lot sizes, frontage requirements) don’t allow this sort of mix-an...
The prospect of this paper is similar, but instead of watching from the central cities it starts looking at cities that disappeared or may disappear, and not only those that, being more central, allow parts of their urban fabric to decay or degrade. The main argument of the paper is that...
The net continued to close. By then the Syrian Arab Army and its allies had captured around 80 per cent of East Ghouta, and that same day (21 March) Russian forcesbrokered a dealbetween Ahrar al-Sham and the Syrian government to allow fighters and their families to be removed from Harasta...
Before detailing each of the layers and their significance to this study, it is important to clarify some definitions and general terminology. In real estate development, “allowable zoning” refers to the acceptable residential densities assigned to land parcels, and “land use” refers to the fun...
allow in many American cities. This could take any number of potential paths, but as part of a GND the federal government should provide massively expanded operating grants to many transit agencies, in return for: no reduction, or even an increase in, state and local commitment; zoning laws,...
Panicked beach-goers ask for help, some people cry in despair, some try to escape (leaving some of their belongings behind). It happened last Saturday, but the phenomenon known as arrastão (literally “dragnet”) had already occurred many times in Rio since the 1990s. Who are the ...
Preserve remnant patches Zoning rules that discourage habitat conversion Protect habitat in open spaces; tradable development rights. Patch size Habitat quality Invasive species suppression Habitat heterogeneity Maintain riparian corridors Setback rules to protect riparian areas; building restrictions in floodplain...