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central business height index

 
Geography Dictionary: central business height index

A measure of the intensity of land use within the CBD. The total floor area of all storeys of a building is compared with the ground-floor area of the building under consideration. The higher the index, the more intensive the urban land use. The index can also be used to delimit the CBD.

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