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Continuing our series on ways to fail at form-based codes, we examine not capturing local character within the code’s basic metrics.

Thc Charter of the New Urbanism is an excellent expression of what cities should be: The danger is dogma.

The book and movie Moneyball follow a general manager who embraces "sabermetrics" in evaluating baseball players. There are also “sabermetric” standards by which urbanism should be measured.

In the new suburbs of America every place looks like every other place, or so it seems: Wide arterial roads, chain retail and scattered office buildings, subdivisions, and a regional shopping mall.

One way to fail at form-based codes is a common mistake — oversimplifying the rural-to-urban Transect.

In honor of Jane Jacobs's birthday May 4, we offer a recent blog that argues planners should learn from and emulate success rather than failure. That may have been Jane's most important, and least understood, message.