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Office of Urban Regulation

Design Rules and Design With Rules!

Cities as cultural products are neither ‘built’ nor ‘planned,’ at best they are guided and steered in a certain direction. Therefore, rules and regulations are one of the few tools that are actually suitable to guide future development within such collective and complex urban settings.

We strongly believe that the field of (urban) design should not simply adhere to these standards as some neutrally existing context but should actively engage in discussing them in order to make them subject to design as well. read more

Office for urban regulation

Artists Certification

New York , SoHo

Only certified artists may own a home in the Art District.

  • SoHo Arts District, New York.

Rule category

Motivation
Hygiene: separation of incompatible uses, programme, land use
The Kind of Rule
Rule that stipulates a fixed limit.
Rule that is tied to a certain zone.
Domain
Rule that influences programmatic and functional issues.
Scale
General Land Use: Rule that specifies land use in general.
District Related Rule: Rule that relates to a whole city district and its identity.