In contrast, here is an example of a large building that uses faux-granularity to add a reasonable number of destinations that keep the street alive:. This is a very large building in Manhattan but it feels indistinguishable from walking past eight separate buildings at street level.
A parking structure of an apartment building creating a dead street. You do not have to be very creative to think of a better design. It's so easy to decorate the ground level of a parking structure with faux-granularity, and earn a little bit of extra rent for the building owner:.
A large multi-story parking structure in Adelaide, Australia with businesses on the ground floor. Ideally we would have true granularity individual buildings that are individually owned , but short of that, we should aim for faux-granularity. Faux-grained urbanism gives the feel of a fine-grained urbanism, and for all practical purposes, functions the same as fine-grained urbanism as far as being interesting, attracting foot traffic, and being highly walkable.
However, it does have some shortcomings that we should be aware of:. It still consolidates a lot of the land into the hands of a single owner. It is up to the discretion of the property owner if they decide to be faux-grained or if they build a blank wall.
There is no resilience against a bad building. If the building is abandoned or has to be closed down, the entire block closes down. If the building is cheap and ugly, the entire block is cheap and ugly. We could certainly regulate faux-granularity, but I am against piling on yet another regulation to burden developers with. This would add yet another permit or approval process to go through, which adds to the overhead of development extra permits and approval processes to go through.
It's an example of treating the symptoms of disease instead of addressing the cause. There is a tendency for newer urban areas to be coarse-grained.
An attempt in Carmel, IN to urbanize. They ended up with large buildings taking up entire city blocks with the city spending insane amounts of money in the process to subsidize it all. Urban development, because of its compact nature relative to suburban development, shouldn't cost that much. Do a few at the top really own all of the wealth of the community?
I think a large part of the problem lies in how we go about selling undeveloped land. They were selling it whole to the player with the best proposal that could afford it. I have noticed this is a trend around the country.
Today, when a city finds themselves with a parcel of land they want to sell, they sell it all to the highest bidder or the bidder with the best plan. A century ago, when a city found itself with land to sell off for development, they would plat the land and sell the lots individually:.
It is easy to imagine that if they found themselves with acres of land to sell and develop, the commissioners would have surveyed the area and drawn out a plat, subdividing the parcel of land into streets, blocks, and lots, and if possible, connecting the streets with any surrounding street grid.
Most of the lots would have been purchased and developed individually — and only those that really needed more space would have purchased multiple consecutive lots. The most obvious solution for building fine-grained urbanism seems to be simply to plat out the land into smaller lots.
When a city finds itself in the possession of undeveloped land, it should take its best effort to divide it up and sell it in the smallest lot sizes as possible. An alternative would be for a private developer to subdivide the land and sell of individual lots.
This is similar to how suburban development works. We could use a similar approach, both to build entirely new urban neighborhoods similar to how the railroad companies of the 19th century would found new railroad towns by subdividing and selling off land in the middle of nowhere and also at a much smaller scale to subdivide already existing blocks.
For example, a developer could buy a large lot, build multiple buildings, then sell off each building individually for more than what they could from building and selling a single building.
You can tell that most likely a single developer built these due to the virtually identical architectural styles, but sold them off individually. I saw this happening on a small scale when I was back in Australia where I grew up.
For example, a record of a person's physical characteristics with high data might have separate fields for the person's height, weight, age, sex, hair color, eye color, and so on, while a record with low data would record the same information in a smaller number of more general fields, and an even lower record would list all of the information in a single field.
Greater granularity makes data more flexible by allowing more specific parts of the data to be processed separately, but requires greater computational resources. In the physical sciences, the term refers to the level of detail in scientific models. A fine-grained model is highly detailed, while a coarse-grained model averages out low-level details rather than portraying them individually. For example, a fine-grained computer model of interactions between atoms will model them at the subatomic level according to the laws of quantum mechanics, while somewhat coarser models may treat the entire nucleus of an atom as a single-point particle that is then modeled according to classical physics , and still-coarser models treat whole groups of atoms as a single unit.
In general, IT professionals talking about granularity are talking about bringing a finer level of detail to technologies and computing or code work. This is the general lexical meaning of granularity, to make things into finer, and often more manageable pieces. By: Dr. By: Kaushik Pal Contributor. Dictionary Dictionary Term of the Day.
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