Comments on: Social software for skyscrapers http://www.akasig.org/2005/04/14/social-software-for-skyscrapers/ Innover, servir, entreprendre. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:29:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Sig http://www.akasig.org/2005/04/14/social-software-for-skyscrapers/comment-page-1/#comment-65295 Sig Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:52:07 +0000 http://sig.levillage.org/?p=611#comment-65295 Gautam, I am sorry I could not help you earlier. I know nothing about building standards and regulation for urban planning. Common sense would suggest that there are no international standards for urban planning (I mean, no enforced standards by the UN or so...). But a quick Google search led me to the following articles which might be useful to you:<ul> <li><a href="http://ci.columbia.edu/0240s/0242_2/0242_2_s6_text.html" rel="nofollow">The regulation debate about New York skyscrapers</a> when they were built one century ago</li> <li>the wikipedia article about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoning" rel="nofollow">Zoning and zoning laws</a></li> <li>the <a href="http://www.iccsafe.org/news/about/" rel="nofollow">International Code Council</a> sets international regulation standards for building safe and fire-proof skyscrapers; they may indicate you some codes about neighborhood regulation or things like that</li> <li>that discussion about <a href="http://www.designcommunity.com/discussion/3593.html" rel="nofollow">New York regulation for skyscrapers may give you useful references</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0620,murphy,73227,5.html" rel="nofollow">an article about the fears of skyscrapers inspired by rezoning New York City</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/83/combuild.html" rel="nofollow">interested in community building?</a></li> <li>more information about <a href="http://www.greatgridlock.net/NYC/nycadd.html#zone" rel="nofollow">New York City regulations for skyscrapers</a></li> <li>more about <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/article01.php?aid=1149" rel="nofollow">the eternal debate about New York zoning laws</a></li> <li>maybe <a href="http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=20" rel="nofollow">this Cyburbia forum is the right place to put your request into</a></li> <li>or someone from the <a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/zone/zonehis.shtml" rel="nofollow">New York City department of City Planning may help you?</a></li> <li>there are things such as a <a href="http://www.cibklutm.com/index.htm" rel="nofollow">"Conference on sustainable building, South-East Asia"</a>; the full brochure may contain references of interest to you, including names of the international organizations involved in "sustainable building"; this may allow you to identify NGOs working in this field; for instance, you may try to get in touch with <a href="http://www.unep.or.jp/ietc/sbc/Resource_Link.asp#NGOs" rel="nofollow">these NGOs</a></li> <li>I noticed there is a <a href="http://static.teriin.org/division/eetdiv/crsbs/crsbs.htm" rel="nofollow">Centre for Research on Sustainable Building Science, located in India</a></li> </ul> Good luck. Gautam, I am sorry I could not help you earlier. I know nothing about building standards and regulation for urban planning. Common sense would suggest that there are no international standards for urban planning (I mean, no enforced standards by the UN or so…). But a quick Google search led me to the following articles which might be useful to you:

Good luck.

]]> By: Gautam Chakraborty http://www.akasig.org/2005/04/14/social-software-for-skyscrapers/comment-page-1/#comment-54001 Gautam Chakraborty Sat, 29 Jul 2006 05:27:59 +0000 http://sig.levillage.org/?p=611#comment-54001 Hi, I will be thankfull if please let me know the international practices/norms for constrction of the Skysrapers. In our locality 4 Nos of tall skysrapers ( each of 35 storey) are comming up. This a residential locality. One of the buildings ( 35 storey) is comming up in the southern side of us & within 25-30 feet of the residential buiding ( 2 storeyed)where we live . We feel the mamoth structure( 35 storey residential tower) will jepopardise the natural light, sunshine, air we are enjoying at present. The municipal authorities have permitted the buidings as per land use pattern & Floor space Index. it is first of its kind in the city and no precedences are there from where we can verify the norms. We feel it is against the international norms/ practices . Please help us with the data/ norms what should be the ideal distance / space between such towers and small houses like ours as mentioned herein. I will be thankful for your cooperation Regards G Chakraborty 357/5 A, Prince Anwar Shah Road Kolkata , india Pin code 700068 Hi, I will be thankfull if please let me know the international practices/norms for constrction of the Skysrapers. In our locality 4 Nos of tall skysrapers ( each of 35 storey) are comming up. This a residential locality. One of the buildings ( 35 storey) is comming up in the southern side of us & within 25-30 feet of the residential buiding ( 2 storeyed)where we live . We feel the mamoth structure( 35 storey residential tower) will jepopardise the natural light, sunshine, air we are enjoying at present. The municipal authorities have permitted the buidings as per land use pattern & Floor space Index. it is first of its kind in the city and no precedences are there from where we can verify the norms. We feel it is against the international norms/ practices . Please help us with the data/ norms what should be the ideal distance / space between such towers and small houses like ours as mentioned herein.
I will be thankful for your cooperation

Regards

G Chakraborty
357/5 A, Prince Anwar Shah Road
Kolkata , india Pin code 700068

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