Explore: Urban Form

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

Urban planning (also called city planning or town planning in some contexts) is the process of developing and designing land use and the built environment

conurbations or suburbs. In urbanism, the term "urban area" contrasts to rural areas such as villages and hamlets; in urban sociology or urban anthropology, it often

national GDP. The city is part of a network of large urban centres in north-east Punjab province that forms one of Pakistan's mostly highly industrialized regions

for buildings within the street pattern of a city, and form the basic unit of a city's urban fabric. City blocks may be subdivided into any number of

part of it as the two urban areas are not geographically contiguous due to the presence of Camp Pendleton. However, both form part of the Southern California

physical form focuses on street pattern, lot (or, in the UK, plot) pattern and building pattern, sometimes referred to collectively as urban grain. Analysis

symbolic capital. This capital may be embedded in the built environment, or urban form of a city, as a symbolic representation of that land's cultural value

as well. Archaeological surface surveys also allowed for the study of urban form in early Mesopotamian cities. Anu/White Temple ziggurat Sumerian masonry

urban planning. Sometimes the urban areas described as the most "sprawling" are the most densely populated. In addition to describing a special form of