Zone
The glossary of statistical terms, published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), defines zoning as: ‘…the process in physical planning, or the results thereof, in which specific functions or uses are assigned to certain areas (for example, industrial zones, residential areas).’
Articles about zones and zoning on Designing Buildings include:
- Central activities zone
- Clean Air Zone
- Clear access zone
- Coastal Transition Zone
- Electromagnetic compatibility zone
- Enterprise zone
- Exclusion zone
- Flood zone
- Hearing protection zone
- Heritage Action Zone
- Housing zone
- Hyphoreic zone
- International Zoning Code (IZC)
- Low emission zone
- Marine Conservation Zone
- Pedestrian zone
- Protected zone
- Separate zoning control
- Shared zone
- Simplified planning zone
- Source protection zone
- Surf zone
- Thermal zone
- Tree protection zone
- Ultra Low Emission Zone
- Unprotected zone
- Unsaturated zone
- Zone area
- Zone control
- Zoning in the United States
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