Report of the Heights of Buildings Commission to the Committee on the Height, Size and Arrangement of Buildings of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of the city of New York (1913)
New York (N.Y.). Heights of Buildings Commission, Bassett, Edward M. (Edward Murray), 1863-1948, New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and Apportionment, Swan, Herbert S. (Herbert Siegfried), 1888-, Williams, Frank B. (Frank Backus), 1864-1954, Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC · [New York, M.B. Brown Printing and Binding Co.] · leaf 88
is a method of regulating buildings as apart of a general city plan. It has two characteristics: it groupsbuildings of different classes and it limits the density of buildingsprogressively, allowing buildings to be higher, and to cover moreof the lot, in the centers where land values are greater… … MAP XIII—DISTRICTING IN FRANKFORT. DISTRICTING 49 regulated with relation to the width of the street upon which thebuilding is situated; and also, usually, by a maximum which,irrespective of the width of the street, it must not exceed. Inmany cities, in the zone or zones of greatest concentration,…
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