Asia

This Guidebook is an instrument to achieve the urban transformation agenda initiated by the Government of India. It provides tools to implement the Form Based Codes (FBC) approach for Indian cities - the Character Based Area Layout Plan (CBALP), Urban Form Regulation (UFR) unique to corresponding CBALP and Property Development Cards (PDC) for improving public realm by meeting the demands of live-work-recreate, safety, sustainability and resilience, including brownfield areas.

 

Many metropolitan cities in Asia are planning and implementing extensive investment in mass transit networks and thus are now on the threshold of becoming transit cities or car traffic saturation cities. The promotion of transit-oriented development (TOD) policies will be a key to the progression to transit cities.