Wikipedia Trail: from "Leather" to "Form-based Code"

This week my Wikipedia trail began at the word leather. Leather is a durable and flexible material. It produced by tanning animal rawhide and skin. The leather cattle hide is used to cover furniture and to make various types of clothing.

From the word leather my Wikipedia trail led me to the word heavy industry. Heavy industry refers to an industry that makes large and heavy products. An example of this type of industry is machine tools and steel fabrication.

From heavy industry my Wikipedia trail led me to the word zoning. Land is divided up into zones according to the areas authority. Zoning plans are enacted by law. An area can be zoned for commercial or private use.

My final word on this weeks Wikipedia trail is form based code. I had never herd of a form based code before this weeks Wikipedia trail. A form based code (FBC) is a means of regulating land development to achieve a specific urban form. Form-Based Codes foster predictable built results and a high-quality public realm by using physical form (rather than separation of uses) as the organizing principle,


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