Net Attraction Framework

Andrew Burleson’s new paradigm

Jay Blazek Crossley, Jul 01, 10.

“The more people a property attracts, the more valuable it will be,” is one of the starting points to Andrew Burleson’s new concept called Net Attraction Framework. Burleson, who is President of CNU-Houston and creator of the neoHouston blog, now has a new website that explains his approach to studying built form and property values. He has been working on this concept for a long time, and recently presented it at several Houston events and at the national Congress for the New Urbanism.

The intent of Burleson’s work is to develop a tool for analyzing various aspects of urban form and their effect on property value, itself an indicator of how much we humans like a place. As some examples, the work could be used by a planning commission to analyze the effects of a proposed pedestrian realm on a project, could be a component of a dynamic form-based code, or can help identify public policies that will lead to greater net value across an area (or to argue against policies that will reduce value).

Here is his “quick intro”: