Ann Arbor, Michigan: Virtual Downtown Experiments
dc.contributor.author | Arlinghaus, Sandra Lach | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-05-04T12:45:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2008-05-04T12:45:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2003-06-21 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Arlinghaus, Sandra L. "Ann Arbor, Michigan: Virtual Downtown Experiments." Solstice: An Electronic Journal of Geography and Mathematics, Volume XIV, Number 1. Ann Arbor: Institute of Mathematical Geography, 2003. Persistent URL (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/58337 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1059-5325 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/58337 | |
dc.description | Once the file is unzipped, launch downtown.html in an internet browser window. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The problem of where to locate tall buildings, with sensitivity to existing building types on adjacent and nearby lots, is a difficult one. In Ann Arbor, building height is currently limited by "floor area ratio" (FAR). The FAR is calculated as the ratio of floor area in a building divided by parcel area, times 100. If a given parcel has an FAR of 100, then a building footprint built lot line to lot line may have a height of 1 story. If a parcel has an FAR of 200, then a building footprint built lot line to lot line may have a height of 2 stories. Similarly, an FAR of 300 yields a building of height 3 stories covering the entire parcel. Thus, on a parcel with an FAR of 300, one might, instead, build a building on half of the lot area but of height six stories, or on a third of the lot area but of height 9 stories. On the same parcel, a 30 story building could be built only if its footprint covered one-tenth of the land area of the parcel. The FAR provides a height limit based on the size of foundation needed to support a tall building. It also offers subtle encouragement for preserving some amount of open space and visual variation in the region to which it applies. The drawback is that a tall building may get built with no regard to the broader context of how a new building will fit in with existing buildings on the surrounding parcels. A possible side effect of using FAR (alone) to limit height is that it might encourage parcel amalgamation by large developers, thereby driving out desired local small business owners. | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/zip | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Institute of Mathematical Geography | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Solstice, Volume XIV, Number 1 | en_US |
dc.subject | Downtown Planning | en_US |
dc.subject | Virtual Reality | en_US |
dc.title | Ann Arbor, Michigan: Virtual Downtown Experiments | en_US |
dc.type | Animation | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.type | Image | en_US |
dc.type | Image, 3-D | en_US |
dc.type | Map | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Geography and Maps | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Adjunct Professor of Mathematical Geography and Population-Environment Dynamics, School of Natural Resources and Environment | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Community Systems Foundation | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Arlinghaus Enterprises | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/58337/1/sandy.zip | |
dc.owningcollname | Mathematical Geography, Institute of (IMaGe) |
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