The evaluation of the imact of form-based code and conventional zoning on Fort McPherson redevelopment

• Main Author: Kim, Keuntae
• Other Authors: Dobbins, Michael, Yang, Perry, Dagenhart, Richard, City Planning
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2010
• Subjects: Form-based codes; Community revitalization; Fort McPherson; Conventional zoning; Design codes; Sustainable development; Zoning; City planning
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/34801

As an emerging urban design tool, form-base codes have been increasingly used by urban planners and designers since the 1980s. Focusing on the actual built environment, form-based codes can provide more predictable results of future development and help planners to more easily communicate with people through detailed diagrams to develop consensual visions. Despite all of these advantages, however, there is no study identifying the advantages of form-based codes over conventional codes in both quantitative and qualitative ways. This thesis proposes what aspects of form-based codes have a positive impact on community revitalization compared with conventional zoning and the differences between the regulation systems by establishing evaluation criteria - sustainability, connectivity, diversity, and design optimization and compactness. For clearer analysis, physical standards in both regulation systems will be considered, and those standards will be directly applied to the actual community development project, the Fort McPherson Redevelopment Plan. M.S.