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  2. Floor area - Wikipedia

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    In architecture, construction, and real estate, floor area, floor space, or floorspace is the area (measured in square metres or square feet) taken up by a building or part of it. The ways of defining "floor area" depend on what factors of the building should or should not be included, such as external walls, internal walls, corridors, lift ...

  3. Floor area ratio - Wikipedia

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    Floor area ratio (FAR) is the ratio of a building's total floor area (gross floor area) to the size of the piece of land upon which it is built. It is often used as one of the regulations in city planning along with the building-to-land ratio. [ 1 ]

  4. Weighted urban proliferation - Wikipedia

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    Urban sprawl in the Greater London Built-up Area at the 1 km 2 scale in 2009 for: Weighted urban proliferation (WUPp), Percentage of build-up area (PBA), Dispersion (DIS) of the built-up areas and Land-uptake per person (LUP) Weighted urban proliferation (WUP) is a method used for measuring urban sprawl.

  5. 11 charts that show how American houses have changed since ...

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    The number of bathrooms has also tended to go up. About 38% of houses completed in 2015 had at least three bathrooms. ... The median house built in 2015 had an area of about 2,467 square feet ...

  6. House plan - Wikipedia

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    Elevation view of the Panthéon, Paris principal façade Floor plans of the Putnam House. A house plan [1] is a set of construction or working drawings (sometimes called blueprints) that define all the construction specifications of a residential house such as the dimensions, materials, layouts, installation methods and techniques.

  7. The cheapest ways to build a house, and the most affordable ...

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    According to HomeAdvisor data from 2023, the average cost to build a house in the U.S. is $318,634. By contrast, the median home price in the U.S. was $416,700 as of August 2024, according to the ...

  8. Build-out - Wikipedia

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    Build-out applies land use or zoning assumptions about density to the available land area. The build-out calculation may deduct land due to physical constraints to development (e.g. sensitive natural resources), potential infrastructure dedications (e.g. streets, public open space, or stormwater management structures), and practical design considerations (e.g. lot layout inefficiencies).

  9. City block - Wikipedia

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    A superblock, or super-block, is an area of urban land that is bounded by arterial roads and the size of multiple typically sized city blocks. [3] Within the superblock, the local road network, if any, is designed to serve only local needs.