The publishing program of the Center for
Applied Transect Studies is generously funded by
The Richard H. Driehaus Charitable Lead Trust.
The Center for Applied Transect Studies (CATS) promotes understanding of the built environment as part of the natural environment, through the planning methodology of the rural-to-urban transect. CATS supports interdisciplinary research, publication, tools, and training for the design, coding, building and documentation of resilient transect-based communities.
CATS is committed to transect-based environmental and land development principles that encourage the following outcomes:
- walkable, transit-connected communities
- comprehensive zoning reform
- context-based thoroughfare design and engineering
- affordable housing and income diversity
- regional, local, and individual food production
- passive climatic response in building and urban design
- reduction of environmental impacts and costs of infrastructure
- development and use of renewable energy technologies
- repair of unsustainable sprawl patterns
First major city with a transect-based code for the entire municipality:
Miami 21 zoning ordinance implemented as law on May 20, 2010, the same day it was awarded a Form-Based Code Award