Tag: CATS

Brave New Codes Reach Tipping Point: When, Where, Why?

Hazel Borys
Hazel Borys Twitter Facebook LinkedInAugust 8, 2010
A year ago, Apple's sales of its iPhone and iPod Touch eclipsed 40 million units, confirming their potential to fundamentally retool our future opportunities and patterns of daily life. Today, a year later, form-based codes hit a similar milestone, with similar implications, as over 330 cities and towns around the world... Continue Reading
Category Architecture, Development, Legal, Planning and Design, Public Policy
Tags CATS, Duany Plater-Zyberk, Emily Talen, form-based code, form-based coding, Hazel Borys, healthy communities, livable communities, new urbanism, planning, smart growth, smartcode, sprawl, sustainability, Transect, zoning
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An App for That (And that and that…)

Ben Brown
Ben Brown March 3, 2010
One of the greatest selling points of the SmartCode, the DPZ-created version of a form-based unified development ordinance, has always been its customize-ability. First of all, it’s Transect-based, which immediately separates it from conventional codes that stamp out the same rules for development everywhere in the landscape. Continue Reading
Category Planning and Design, Public Policy
Tags Andres Duany, CATS, Dan Bartman, PlaceMakers, smartcode
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