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January 4, 2006
Street Logic
Just when you thought that you understood Floor Area Ratio (FAR), Brooklyn Views illustrates how Ratner has "gamed the system."
This post illustrates how the overall project claims open space and Floor Area Ratios (FAR) in a manner inconsistent with the intent of these measures in New York.
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Ratner calculates a lower FAR, more open space by taking our streets. And what about those streets?
The street is not some other architect’s mistake, waiting for Forest City Ratner to correct; it is the deep structure of urban form. This is not about replicating 19th Century architecture, but about learning from the large-scaled mistakes of 20th Century interventions.
Posted by lumi at January 4, 2006 7:51 AM