The 1915 Equitable Building. Image via Wikimedia Commons. The 1916 New York City Zoning Resolution imposed height and setback limits and distinguished between residential and industrial districts.

Thus, the city adopted the 1916 Zoning Resolution that required setbacks for new buildings to allow sunlight to penetrate to street level. The zoning ordinance is responsible for the way ...

More than any single property, it spurred the 1916 Zoning Resolution, the first zoning law in the country, which required setbacks on tall towers that we are all familiar with, such as on the ...

When New York City established its Zoning Resolution of 1916, it was the first such comprehensive zoning code in the country, albeit inspired by skyscraper setbacks in Chicago and industrial land ...

Timed with the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Zoning Resolution, the country’s first comprehensive zoning ordinance, the exhibit shows how the zoning code is structured, how it impacts a building ...

A book of zoning maps titled “Height / July 25, 1916," inside the New York Department of City Planning offices in the Equitable Building in New York, March 14, 2018.

The city’s 1916 zoning resolution was the first attempt in the United States to apply zoning restrictions—which regulate the type, design and size of buildings that can be constructed on particular ...

Their efforts culminated with the enactment of the 1916 resolution, the first comprehensive zoning law in the United States. This code established building zones intended to segregate land uses.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of New York City’s monumental 1916 zoning resolution, which paved the way not just for the look and shape of the city’s skyline, but also for how such ...