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8 Context Settings Overview The Expanded FCS provides five context categories to move beyond the traditional urban– rural dichotomy. Five categories allow for a more distinct or specific position along the contextual continuum, which ranges from very little development to very highly developed.
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Context Settings 9 extremely large-scale urban areas with intensive development. For example, New York City, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, and Los Angeles clearly have unique urban development patterns and intensities.
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10 An Expanded Functional Classification System for Highways and Streets terminology and selected photographs/graphic views to assist in determining the most appropriate current and future context category of a roadway segment. The user must recall that there will be exceptions along any roadway, and these occur more often in the vicinity of urban areas.
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Context Settings 11 farms. The land is primarily used for outdoor recreation, agriculture, farms, and/or resource extraction.
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12 An Expanded Functional Classification System for Highways and Streets (a) Only one residential structure is seen in the top right.
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Context Settings 13 (a)
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14 An Expanded Functional Classification System for Highways and Streets • Mixed residential neighborhood and commercial clusters (includes town centers, commercial corridors, big box commercial and light industrial use)
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Context Settings 15 urban–urban core context boundaries change over time with the urban core area expanding in high-growth situations and possibly contracting in low- or no-growth situations. Key Urban Characteristics: • High density (multistory low-rise structures with designated off-street parking)
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16 An Expanded Functional Classification System for Highways and Streets Urban Core • Highest density (multistory and high-rise structures)
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