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Although the concept of low-rise high-density housing can be traced back to Le Corbusier's unbuilt Roq et Rob project from 1949, [3] a more direct influence was the pioneering work of the Swiss firm Atelier 5, whose Siedlung Halen project built in Bern, Switzerland in 1955-61 became a seminal example of the typology.
One acre equals 1 ⁄ 640 (0.0015625) square mile, 4,840 square yards, 43,560 square feet, [2] or about 4,047 square metres (0.4047 hectares) (see below).While all modern variants of the acre contain 4,840 square yards, there are alternative definitions of a yard, so the exact size of an acre depends upon the particular yard on which it is based.
The project has been building an experimental town on 25 acres (10 ha) of a 4,060-acre (1,640 ha) land preserve, 860 acres (350 hectares) of which are owned by the Cosanti Foundation, with the remainder leased from the state. Ground was broken in 1970 to begin construction on the site and has continued at a varying pace through the present. [2]
Blocks of 80, 40, and 10 acres establish a street grid at the outskirts which continues into the more finely divided downtown area. A city block , residential block , urban block , or simply block is a central element of urban planning and urban design .
One of the reasons for creating sections of 640 acres (260 ha) was the ease of dividing into halves and quarters while still maintaining a whole number of acres. A section can be halved seven times in this way, down to a 5-acre (2 ha) parcel, or half of a quarter-quarter-quarter section—an easily surveyed 50-square-chain (2 ha) area. This ...
The complex includes three residential towers with 1,132 units and 3 acres (1.2 ha) of park, along with 100,000 square feet (9,300 m 2) of amenity space. [4] [5] The residences range in size from one to five bedrooms. [6] The project, which was designed by Rafael Viñoly, Kohn Pedersen Fox, and Richard Meier, [5] was completed in 2020.
There is a train station and a few office and apartment buildings in Broadacre City, but the apartment dwellers are expected to be a small minority. All important transport is done by automobile, and the pedestrian can exist safely only [citation needed] within the confines of the one-acre (0.40-hectare) plots where most of the population dwells.
Provisions of a cluster development require that the site is at least 2 to 5 acres (20,000 m 2) and there is no minimum to lot dimensions; furthermore each house can be no more than 12 feet (3.7 m) from the street with yard that is at least 25 feet (7.6 m). There also needs to be the ability to place more than one principal building on each lot ...