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Boston Coastal Flood Resilience Design Guidelines & Zoning Overlay District // Utile, Inc.

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As a critical step in the City’s Climate Ready Boston Initiative, Utile led the development of Boston’s first Coastal Resilience Design Guidelines and recommendations for a citywide zoning overlay in collaboration with the Boston Planning and Development Agency. © Utile, Inc. © Utile, Inc. © Utile, Inc. © Utile, Inc. © Utile, Inc.

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Density - Dirty Word or Solution?

Community Architect Daily

Suburban fight against new development in Baltimore County (Photo: Baltimore Banner) Onerous regulations have been not only been a tool of separating use, race and class for a long time, they also control how many people can live in a given space, in other words: Density. Re-zoning: The hottest trend? Fear of density, however, remains.

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Is Density a Dirty Word or a Solution?

Community Architect

Suburban fight against new development in Baltimore County (Photo: Baltimore Banner) Onerous regulations have been not only been a tool of separating use, race and class for a long time, they also control how many people can live in a given space, in other words: Density. Re-zoning: The hottest trend? Fear of density, however, remains.

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Competitions: Greening the Industrial City

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Registration Deadline: Sep 16, 2022; Submission Deadline Oct 18, 2022 Houston, Texas, the fourth largest city in the US, is the largest metropolitan area in the US without zoning regulations. As a result, the city is a patchwork of uses with industrial and commercial zones ensconced in residential neighborhoods.

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Who Owns the City? - How David won Against Goliath in Downtown Columbia

Community Architect Daily

Thus there is some public governance with a County Executive, a council, a planning commission, and a full set of zoning regulations which create a sort of umbrella of rules and representation. Zoning is a public control while covenants are private controls (except when public government uses them, which is possible as well ).

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American Icon or Chief Offender?

Community Architect

Or, more precisely, and even more mundane, the zoning that enables it. The culprit hides out in a section of municipal zoning code that is titled "Single family residential", frequently abbreviated as R1. The history of zoning Zoning in general rarely gets much attention these days. Let's review the battles lines.

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Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) wins competition to design the Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre

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The centre’s design intertwines with the city’s existing urban masterplan to connect the new multimedia library to the north of Jinghe Avenue with the new performing arts theatre, multi-function halls, studios and exhibition galleries to the south via elevated courtyards, gardens and paths that span the avenue’s eight lanes of traffic below.

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