Form-Based Coding:  Building Form and Street Space

Where the 20th Century Euclidian-Zoning model hyper-controls Land USE -- and only indirectly deals with the FORM of buildings and streets (with little success) -- Form-Based Coding deals directly with building FORM and sets only broad parameters for USE.  

Careful, understandable controls on building FORM, broad parameters on building USE to shape clear Public Space (good Streets and Squares).  

Euclidian-Zoning is rooted in the problems of the Industrial Revolution (late 18th, early 19th, Century!) and fundamentally about keeping things apart.  

Towns and Cities are healthy to the degree that they properly integrate the various aspects of daily life.  

This is the 21st, not the 19th Century -- we need to deal with how things work together.
Farmer's Branch Station Area Form-Based Code
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