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Excerpt from Building Height Bulk, and Form: How Zoning Can Be Used as a Protection Against Uneconomic Nomic Types of Buildings, on Land High-Cost LandAnalysis of building management data, 12 Calculation of maximum building bulk, 12 Distributing building bulk, 15 Rentals vary With exposure, 22 Effect of vacancies, 24 Waste bulk at base of skyscraper, 27 More open space opposite lower windows, 28 Larger courts, 28 Lighter yards and courts, 29.A...
Excerpt from City Planning Progress: In the United States, 1917, Compiled the Committee on Town Planning of the American Institute of ArchitectsNewburgh, N. Y. New Haven, Conn. New Holland, N. C. New London, Conn. New Orleans, La Newport, R. L.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Boo...
Excerpt from New York City Building Zone Resolution: Restricting the Height and Use of Buildings and Prescribing the Minimum Sizes of Their Yards and Courts, With Explanatory Notes That Will Be Helpful to Owners, Builders and ArchitectsA Resolution regulating and limiting the height and bulk of buildings hereafter erected, and regulating and determining the area of yards, courts and other open spaces, and regulating and restricting the locatio...
Excerpt from New York City Building Zone Resolution: Restricting the Height and Use of Buildings and Prescribing the Minimum Sizes of Their Yards and Courts, With Explanatory Notes That Will Be Helpful to Owners, Builders and ArchitectsA Resolution regulating and limiting the height and bulk of buildings hereafter erected, and regulating and determining the area of yards, courts and other open spaces, and regulating and restricting the locatio...
Excerpt from Out of the RuinsFrance has borne the brunt of the war. Over of her best men have been killed - nearly half of the total lost by all of the Allies exclusive of Russia. From being a creditor nation to the extent of thirty billion francs, she has become a debtor nation for a like amount. Her best industrial and agri cultural districts have been held by the enemy. Her foreign loans have yielded nothing, her best internal revenue has b...
Excerpt from City Planning Progress: In the United States, 1917, Compiled the Committee on Town Planning of the American Institute of Architects
Newburgh, N. Y. New Haven, Conn. New Holland, N. C. New London, Conn. New Orleans, La Newport, R. L.
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Excerpt from Out of the Ruins
In the preparation of this book, as comparatively few printed documents exist in which the facts about devastation and reconstruction are given, I have been obliged to collect most of my data at first hand through interviews with government officials and others who are particularly active in reconstruction work, and by making trips of observation from time to time through the devastated regions. Everywhere I have...
Excerpt from Building Height Bulk, and Form: How Zoning Can Be Used as a Protection Against Uneconomic Nomic Types of Buildings, on Land High-Cost Land
Trained as an architect, at first in this country, and then at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, George Burdett Ford was soon primarily interested in the field of City Planning. In his service with the New York Commission on City Planning and the Commission on Building Districts and Restrictions, in h...
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