New Urbanism
description: urban design movement promoting walkable neighborhoods with a wide range of housing and job types
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City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
by Megan Kimble · 2 Apr 2024 · 430pp · 117,211 words
to remove a mile-long spur of the elevated Park East Freeway in his hometown, stepped down to lead a nonprofit called Congress for the New Urbanism, where he began a campaign for the removal of urban highways across the country. By the time Patrick made removing I-345 a citywide talking
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point in Dallas, Congress for the New Urbanism had active campaigns in two dozen cities, from Pasadena, California, to Syracuse, New York. Some campaigns called for full demolition, replacing highways with boulevards as
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to remove an elevated highway, TxDOT was building a new one—and right through the middle of Austin. Over the following decades, Sinclair helped bring new urbanism to the suburban-feeling Texas city. In 2001, Black + Vernooy wrote Austin’s downtown streets master plan, which articulated a vision of “streets for people
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trying to connect with people fighting highway expansions across the country. He wasn’t the only one. Ben Crowther had taken over Congress for the New Urbanism’s Highways to Boulevards program in 2018. “Every time I talked to a group somewhere, they’d say, who else is out there like us
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for a highway is the opposite direction we should be going as a city,” Michael says. “These are valuable apartments. They were touted as the new urbanism when they were originally built in the early 2000s and now TxDOT has decided they’re not worth anything.” The crowd, more than a hundred
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spring of 2022, the California Department of Transportation began soliciting proposals to remove the two-mile highway. In the spring of 2023, Congress for the New Urbanism published its biennial Freeways Without Futures report, marking fifteen years since the nonprofit began profiling the worst highways in America and highlighting campaigns to remove
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/local/editorspicks/article/embarcadero-freeway-san-francisco-photos-history-15990662.php. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Transit ridership increased: “Embarcadero Freeway,” Congress for the New Urbanism, www.cnu.org/what-we-do/build-great-places/embarcadero-freeway. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT board of supervisors voted: Arredondo, “Rise and Demise
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Open,” New York Times, Oct. 10, 1937. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Portland’s Harbor Drive: “Model Cities: Portland—Harbor Drive,” Congress for the New Urbanism, www.cnu.org/highways-boulevards/model-cities/portland. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Milwaukee’s mayor, John Norquist: “Model Cities: Milwaukee—Park East Freeway
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,” Congress for the New Urbanism, www.cnu.org/highways-boulevards/model-cities/milwaukee. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT active campaigns: “Highways to Boulevards Fact Sheet,” Congress for the
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New Urbanism, www.cnu.org/our-projects/highways-boulevards. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT eighteen North American cities: Ibid. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT In
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/a-divided-neighborhood-comes-together-under-an-elevated-expressway. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT 100,000 cars a day: “Embarcadero Freeway,” Congress for the New Urbanism. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Elm Street was the heart: Paula Bosse, “The Gypsy Tea Room, Central Avenue, and the Darensbourg Brothers,” Flashback Dallas
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TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT proposals to remove: Lauren Mayer, “Freeways Without Futures 2023,” Congress for the New Urbanism. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT marking fifteen years: “Freeways Without Futures,” Congress for the New Urbanism, www.cnu.org/our-projects/highways-boulevards/freeways-without-futures. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT For the
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-25 expansion and, 256, 276 Colorado, Hexel, 166, 250 Colorado Department of Transportation, 256 community land trusts, xiv(map), 215, 219–20 Congress for the New Urbanism, 53–54, 277 Cook, Chloe, 165–66, 242 Cook, Judy, 62–63, 65–66, 67, 68, 79 Cook, Mark, 63, 65–68, 71, 135–36
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, 244 fracking, 71 Freedman’s Town (Dallas). See North Dallas (Freedman’s Town) Freeway Fighters Network, 111–12 Freeways Without Futures (2023, Congress for the New Urbanism), 277 Frisch, Erik, 207–208, 215 Fundamental Law of Road Congestion, 16 Futurama (1939 World’s Fair), 22, 23–24 G Gaston, Jasmine, 152–54
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under Austin: I-35; removal of under Dallas: I-345 Claiborne Expressway (New Orleans), 54–55 community input for replacements, 277–78 Congress for the New Urbanism and, 53–54 Embarcadero Freeway (San Francisco), 51–53 engineering for, 119–20 Harbor Drive (Portland, Oregon), 53 Park East Freeway (Milwaukee), 53 revitalization of
The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream
by Christopher B. Leinberger · 15 Nov 2008 · 222pp · 50,318 words
5 4 3 2 1 Search terms: urban, suburban, sprawl, auto-dependent, real estate product development types, transportation, Futurama, affordable housing, inclusionary zoning, impact fees, New Urbanism, transit-oriented development, American Dream, S&L crisis, walkable urbanism, drivable sub-urbanism, global warming, carbon load, obesity, asthma, favored quarter, metropolitan, regionalism, urbanization, population
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the 1920s, a time during which many observers feel that the best suburbs ever created were built—a precursor to what is referred to as New Urbanism today. The area had everything a youngster needed within walking or bicycling distance. The local drug, variety, and grocery stores were three blocks away, and
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downtowns, new office-based jobs are now being added, reversing a sixty-year decline in regional market share. The design and planning movement known as New Urbanism, which focuses on the development of walkable urban places, generally located in the suburbs, emerged during the same time period and took the planning and
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previously used as farm land. At first this development started slowly in the mid- and late 1990s, but it took off in the 2000s. The New Urbanism movement sparked much of this generally suburban-located development. 88 | THE OPTION OF URBANISM So the middle of the 2000s decade found the country going
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A B L E U R B A N I S M | 9 7 development” (another term for walkable urbanism and defined by RCLCo as “new urbanism, transit oriented development and urban and suburban in-fill”) and that “there is no doubt the size of the market is growing.” The RCLCo conclusions
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changes. Much of the new product that satisfies the demand for walkable urbanism has been built by small and midsized companies—for example, devotees of New Urbanism and firms deeply committed to downtown revitalization and historic rehabilitation, which I guess to be no more than twenty percent of the industry. Yet awareness
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,” “mixed-use walkable development,” and “green building,” one would get the impression that it was published by the Sierra Club or the Congress for the New Urbanism. The online daily news site REBusiness Online recently reported that “developers are uniting this historically urban format with the increasingly popular ‘live, work, play’ motto
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trends in the built environment will notice that I have not used some terms common over the past fifteen years, such as “transit-oriented development,” “New Urbanism,” and “traditional neighborhood development” (TND). The description “transit-oriented development” can and does apply to most regional-serving, walkable urban places. (It is possible, but
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| THE OPTION OF URBANISM walkable urbanism, as some of the examples below demonstrate). Transitoriented development can occur in any density that supports transit. In general, New Urbanism has played out on the ground as neighborhood-serving walkable urbanism. Its best-known, iconic projects, such as Seaside, Florida; Kentlands, Maryland; and Stapleton, Colorado
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bedroom communities (neighborhood-serving) that may or may not become regional-serving someday. “TND” as a term tends to be interchangeable with “New Urbanism” and focuses on neighborhoodserving places. New Urbanism and TNDs have played pivotal roles in the rebirth of neighborhood-serving places in suburban greenfields. Use of this type of development has
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demonstrated that walkable neighborhood demand can be built from scratch. Andres Duany, one of the founders of the Congress of the New Urbanism and a leading thinker and architect, has justified New Urbanism suburban development by saying that most future development will go to the suburban greenfield sites, so they might as well be
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a restaurant, a shop, an apartment—so long as the use addresses the sidewalk in a pedestrian-oriented manner. Pioneered by the Congress for the New Urbanism, form-based codes do not specify what goes on inside the building, making the assumption that the market is much better at figuring that out
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two stations, providing a transit connection to downtown Miami. A master plan for the future redevelopment of the Dadeland district was prepared by Dover Koll, New Urbanism planners, AC H I E V I N G T H E N E X T A M E R I CA N D R
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Leadership in a New Era,’” Journal of the American Planning Association, (Autumn 2006): 393. 2. Dowell Myers et al., “The Coming Demand” (Congress for the New Urbanism, October 9, 2001), http://www.cnu.org/sites/files/Coming_Demand .pdf. 3. Ibid. 4. “Battle for Brainpower,” The Economist, October 7, 2006, U.S
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can be applied to a district because it includes the common area used for transportation and parks surrounding various buildings. 3. Readers familiar with the New Urbanism concept, the Transect, will note a slight difference with the two broad types of development referred to in this book. The Transect makes the point
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-income walkable urbanism. This approach was pioneered during the Clinton administration under the direction of Henry Cisneros, secretary of housing and urban development. Following the New Urbanism planning approach, many of these Hope VI housing projects were built with sixty percent market-rate housing and forty percent affordable housing in a 192
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, 189n5 Nelson, A., 88–89, 104–105, 125, 129, 144, 189n1, 194n17 Neverlands, 114–115, 140, 153, 192n5 redevelopment, 156–159 New economy, 11, 91 New Urbanism, 5, 87, 97, 106, 112, 117–118, 152, 158, 191n3–4 New York City, 36, 98, 130, 161 New York City World’s Fair, 15
Public Places, Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design
by Matthew Carmona, Tim Heath, Steve Tiesdell and Taner Oc · 15 Feb 2010 · 1,233pp · 239,800 words
review as a means to promote better design through planning action and through the professions with the emergence of, for example, the Congress for the New Urbanism. In addition, urban design is the focus of well-developed grass roots activity, with local communities participating in the design, management and re-shaping
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freedom • Provide access for all • Build legible environments • Build lasting environments • Control change (incrementally) • Join it all together. The Congress for New Urbanism During the 1990s in the United States, New Urbanism (see chapter 2) developed from two earlier sets of ideas:• ‘Neo-traditional neighbourhoods’ (NTDs) and ‘traditional neighbourhood development’ (TNDs), where the central
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of a sufficient density to make public transport viable (e.g. Calthorpe 1989, 1993). Formalised through the creation of the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU) in 1993, a Charter for New Urbanism (www.cnu.org) was published advocating restructuring public policy and development practices to support the following:• Neighbourhoods diverse in use and population
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social urbanism is a critique of the contemporary urban condition. Also drawn primarily from an American context, Kelbaugh (2008a, 2008b) identified three ‘self-conscious’ urbanisms – New Urbanism, Post Urbanism and Everyday Urbanism – which ‘… represent the cutting edge of theoretical and professional activity in Western architecture and urbanism.’ (2008a: 105 – see also Fishman
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power; and Post-Urbanist projects typically resulting from prestigious competitions, commissioned ‘… by wealthy and powerful institutions, corporations and patrons who seek high profile, iconic buildings.’ New Urbanism New Urbanism characterises a set of ideas that appeared primarily in the USA during the second half of the 1980s and early 1990s. The movement was formalised
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Urbanists are ‘…. committed to re-establishing the relationship between the art of building and the making of community, through citizen based participatory planning and design.’ New Urbanism thus has a significant social agenda, but, as with Jane Jacobs, one linked to particular built forms: recognising that physical solutions would not solve social
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problems, the Charter argues that ‘… neither can economic vitality, community stability, and environmental health be sustained without a coherent and supportive physical framework.’ (CNU 1998). New Urbanism is a much – sometimes wilfully – misunderstood term and movement. Many, for example, confuse compromised practice with doctrinaire intent; others choose not to see the regional
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is guided by an open-ended set of principles or a design canon with specific forms and norms.’ Providing a comprehensive and systematic discussion of New Urbanism, Ellis (2002) notes how, inter alia, much of the critical literature is characterised by use of caricature, premature judgements, unrealistic expectations and ideological bias (
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see also Brain 2005; Calthorpe 2005; Dunham-Jones 2008). It is particularly – and maybe harshly – criticised for its apparent nostalgia. For Post Urbanists (see below), New Urbanism’s ‘… desire for orderliness embodies nostalgia for a romanticised past that never existed.’ (Kelbaugh 2008a: 109). In terms of urban form, however, this criticism ignores
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of embodied learning represented by tradition and the enduring, timeless qualities of spatial types (see Chapter 4). The ‘style’ dimension is, nonetheless, problematic. Recognising that New Urbanism ‘… is too often formulaic, realised in banal and cloyingly historicist architecture’, Kelbaugh (2008a: 112, 113) laments the use of historical styles lacking ‘authenticity and tectonic
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‘irrelevant or overblown’, Kelbaugh (2008a: 112) observes that ‘judging from the ferocity of the debates’, ‘… clearly it does matter to design professionals and academics.’ Notably New Urbanism has sought to engage, to transform and to offer alternatives to contemporary regulatory systems – what Brain (2005: 230) refers to as ‘the substantive irrationalities of
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Maryland), do not conform with the core principles outlined in the CNU Charter. It is thus useful to distinguish ‘deep’ and ‘shallow’ variants, where deep New Urbanism conforms with a high proportion of the Charter principles (see also Sohmer & Lang 2000) Walters (2007: 157) argues that, for all its flaws, no other
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designers take from these various urbanisms? The best response is to be critical, taking what is useful from each and seeking synergy rather than compromise. New Urbanism can become formulaic, producing the same answer to different problems and challenges, but it has much substantial common ground with principles of good place-making
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.2). Perry’s ideas were developed as a means of organising and developing parts of cities in a systematic and logical fashion. In the USA, New Urbanism brought together neo-traditional neighbourhoods (NTDs) and traditional neighbourhood development (TNDs), which exhibit a clear lineage from Perry’s ideas (see Box 6.3).
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mix is, nevertheless, desirable and there are various benefits from mixed and (better) balanced neighbourhoods. Both the Urban Villages Forum and the Congress of the New Urbanism, for example, emphasised the need for a variety of house prices and tenures. DTLR/CABE (2001: 34) lists the following advantages:• Providing a better
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) 28block structures 57, 78, 83 Change 84management of 243–244 robustness 253–256 time frames of 252–253 urban environment 14see alsoUrban development Charter for New Urbanism 41–42 Chicago 83 Chicago School 28, 29 Childs, Mark 16, 169, 262, 263, 372see alsoconcinnity Choice 49 Circulation mesh 101 Cities 101Central Business District
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Computer imaging and animation 354 Computer-aided design 350–351 Computers, participation and 229 Concept providers 19 Conceptual urbanism 40, 41 Concinnity 262 Congress for New Urbanism 9–10 Connotation 117 Conservation 245–247, 249management 270 Consultation 284 Containment 176, 178 Continuity of place 247–248 Controls 31, 150, 258public sector role
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Neo-liberalism 68 Neo-traditional neighbourhoods (NTDs) 9–10 Newman, Oscar 24, 37–40, 51, 92, 150, 151, 224, 335, 376, 382 New Modernism 25 New Urbanism 9–10, 41–43Charter for 41–42 New Urbanist codes 317, 319 New York, USA 32 Nodes 115 Noise 220 O Obsolescence 248–252 Occupiers
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and evaluation 320–324 frameworks 10–11Allan Jacobs and Donald Appleyard 8–9 Francis Tibbalds 9 Kevin Lynch 8 responsive environments 9 The Congress for New Urbanism 9–10 global context 51–55 holistic approach 363–366 ‘knowing’ urban design 17, 72, 162 local context 47–51 market context 55–62
City: Urbanism and Its End
by Douglas W. Rae · 15 Jan 2003 · 537pp · 200,923 words
meant by urbanism’s ending. The third and last resonance of the term “urbanism” attaches to the vibrant recent movement that announced itself as the New Urbanism. Centering especially on the Miami design studio of Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, this movement seeks to recapture the look, feel, and function of
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democracy in any plausible sense seems out of reach. The notion of urbanism provides a useful perspective for critical study of such hierarchies. Third, the New Urbanism school of design is among the most important movements afoot in our current debate on the future of American city life.72 This movement harks
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in abundance in houses from about 1910. But design alone is apt not to suffice in isolation from other features. The extent to which the New Urbanism’s design strategy can be integrated with cultural, economic, and governmental requirements for success in real city neighborhoods remains largely for the future to decide
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has strong appeal to this day (figures 7.4 and 7.5). At least superficially, it often seems to define the housing ideal of the New Urbanism.32 The numbing sameness of later tract development is often avoided, and the appeal to essentially urban sensibilities is very strong. GROCERY RETAILING, 1913–50
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is a vast literature on these developments. Among the leading critical statements are Kunstler, Geography of Nowhere; Vincent Scully, “The Architecture of Community,” in The New Urbanism, ed. Peter Katz (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994); Kay, Asphalt Na- 439 N O T E S T O P A G E S 2
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). On the internal democracy of suburban municipalities, see Eric Oliver, Democracy in Suburbia (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001). 72. See, for instance, Peter Katz, The New Urbanism (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994). See also Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, “Neighborhoods and Suburbs,” Design Quarterly 164 (Spring 1995). CHAPTER 2. INDUSTRIAL CONVERGENCE
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Jeff Speck, Suburban Nation (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2000); Thomas Hylton, Save Our Land, Save Our Towns (Harrisburg, Pa.: Seitz and Seitz, 1995); Katz, New Urbanism; Philip Langdon, A Better Place to Live (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994). 33. The calculation is made using the Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation
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Construction in the New Haven Area.” 23. Garvin, American City, 12. 24. See, for instance, Duany, Plater-Zyberk, and Speck, Suburban Nation. See also Katz, New Urbanism. 25. The number of towns starts out at ten, before West Haven is chartered in 1921. The total envelope of places nevertheless remains constant, since
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Jennifer Bradley. “Divided We Sprawl.” Atlantic Monthly, December 1999. 486 B I B L I O G R A P H Y Katz, Peter. The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community. New York: McGrawHill, 1994. Katznelson, Ira. Marxism and the City. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. ———. City Trenches. Chicago: University of
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Social Status Groups in American Metropolitan Communities, 1950–80.” Social Forces 68, no. 4 (1990): 1143–63. Scully, Vincent. “The Architecture of Community.” In The New Urbanism, edited by Peter Katz, 221–30. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994. ———. “America’s Nightmare: The Automotive Megalopolis.” Zodiac 17, no. 1 (1967): 11– 17. ———. “The
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useful guidance. The Caliper Corporation of Massachusetts has been generous with data and GIS software. 501 INDEX Appleby, Thomas, 318, 320 architecture. See brutalism; modernism; New Urbanism assembly-line production, 21–22, 224 athletic organizations, 144–45 Atlas Club, 154 automobiles assembly-line production of, 21–22, 221 growth in numbers, 437
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, 156 New Haven State Teacher’s College, 248 New Haven YMCA Junior College, 248 New Haven Youth Soccer, 384 Newton, Huey, 387 Newton, James, 420 New Urbanism, 31, 234, 372, 424 New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, 80, 107–8, 205 New York, N.Y., 65–66, 426 Nineteenth Amendment, 409 North
Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities
by Witold Rybczynski · 9 Nov 2010 · 232pp · 60,093 words
but rather with desirable real estate. In the 1980s, the planning ideas of Raymond Unwin and John Nolen resurfaced as what came to be called New Urbanism. New Urbanism started in the 1980s with Seaside, not a garden suburb but a tiny resort village on the Florida Panhandle. Seaside had an influence far beyond
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were attracted by the picturesque, traditional architecture; developers, who generally paid little attention to design, took note of the financial success. The chief lessons of New Urbanism were that home buyers value planning and design and will accept higher densities when these are associated with a sense of community. The garden suburb
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returns as New Urbanism in a planned community in Orlando, Florida. The resulting new generation of planned communities, such as Kentlands in Maryland, Stapleton in Colorado, I’On in
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among the wealthy. Wright imagined Broadacre City as a place for independent yeomen farmers, but decentralized development attracts independent software developers, and Walmart, instead. The New Urbanism movement has grand ambitions to remake the center of cities, but its greatest successes have been in the suburbs, so much so that Vincent Scully
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presented at the Javits Center were designed by Beyer Blinder Belle; two were the work of Peterson Littenberg, an architecture and planning firm that espoused New Urbanism; one was based on a plan that the powerhouse architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill had prepared for Larry Silverstein, the leaseholder of the destroyed Twin Towers
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all struggling with Miesian planning and the urban-renewal syndrome, and it’s interesting how the responses to Jane Jacobs differed. On one hand, the New Urbanism setting the clock back; in my case, actually feeling we needed to deal with her observations and values looking forward to a denser, more urban
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Realities,” Commentary 33 (1962): 173. 17. Ibid., 172. 18. Ibid. 19. Jacobs, Death and Life, 391. 20. Vincent Scully, “The Architecture of Community,” in The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community, ed. Peter Katz (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994), 221. 21. Martin Meyerson et al., The Face of the Metropolis (New
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York: Random House, 1968), 23. 22. Andrejs Skaburskis, “New Urbanism and Sprawl: A Toronto Case Study,” Journal of Planning Education and Research 25 (2006): 233. Chapter 6: Arcades and Malls, Big Boxes and Lifestyle Centers
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), NY) 75 Frank Lloyd Wright at eighty-four. (Photograph by Al Ravenna. This image is in the public domain.) 86 The garden suburb returns as New Urbanism in a planned community in Orlando, Florida. (Photograph by author) 95 Burlington Arcade in London, an early example of urban design created by entrepreneurship. (Andrew
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: and cities Americans want, 178 neighborliness, 86 Netherlands, 33 New Haven, Connecticut, 9, 164 New Jersey: containerports in, 119 New Orleans, Louisiana, 54, 118, 120 New Urbanism, 85, 92, 129, 191 New York Central Building (New York City), 26 New York City: affordability in, 169–70; Age of Urban Crisis in, 79
Retrofitting Suburbia, Updated Edition: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs
by Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson · 23 Mar 2011 · 512pp · 131,112 words
, and citizens interested in helping suburbs and metropolitan regions, both aging and booming, to grow in healthy ways. In keeping with the principles of both new urbanism and smart growth, we see these retrofits as an enormous opportunity to direct new growth into existing areas, both the by-passed first-ring suburbs
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, and Wendy Redfield. Many of the designers, developers, and planners who contributed to projects featured in this book are members of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU). We acknowledge the crucial role that the Congress has played in recent decades in forcing the hand of “business as usual” suburban developers, and
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$26 million since 2000.47 In many respects, the project has been a great success. Lee Sobel’s 2002 book for the Congress for the New Urbanism, Greyfields into Goldfields, concluded that “Through the oversight of the city of St. Paul, Phalen Village Center’s ongoing revitalization is leading the revival of
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” as the heart of the system.71 Gradually, the regulatory and market obstacles to multiway and transit boulevards are being removed. The Congress for the New Urbanism has worked with the Institute of Transportation Engineers toward updating the Green Book with context-sensitive design standards.72 The Boulevard Book provided much-needed
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Al Gore has made clear, the issue here is not only the inconvenience this causes to drivers. John Norquist, president of the Congress for the New Urbanism, likes to refer to walkable urbanism as the convenient remedy to the inconvenient truth. An additional benefit of mixed use is the economic advantage to
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a significant portion of the tenant portfolios of these two sites. DEAD AND DYING MALLS In Greyfields into Goldfields, a report by the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU), the authors identify a tremendous opportunity to “reclaim vast suburban swaths” by redeveloping so-called dead mall sites.11 A February 2001 report by
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defensive about the future of enclosed shopping malls, a building type and use that design professionals have come to loathe.15 The Congress for the New Urbanism and smart growth advocates have become influential in shaping the new and evolving positions of the ULI and the ICSC. Exact figures are hard to
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-use program in mind, GGP engaged Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ) to produce a master plan. Two of the founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk have earned a seminal reputation for leading efforts to replace suburban development patterns with more traditional and more urban
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area with conference table; a large workspace with approximately twenty tables and power outlets; a command center with copy machine, printer, plotter, reference books on new urbanism and Salt Lake City, and a multitude of drawing supplies; and a well-stocked snacks and drinks table and area for serving catered lunches and
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by formerly sprawling cities like Atlanta and Washington to have met both the 2030 Architecture Challenge for carbon-neutral buildings and the Congress for the New Urbanism’s 2030 Community Challenge to reduce VMT by 50%. Over time, the retrofits’ popularity relaxed suburban residents’ initial fears of the encroachment of “the city
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urbanist projects in Pasadena and Santa Monica. Can third places be franchised? 36 For more on this issue see Thomas H. Sanders, “Social Capital and New Urbanism: Leading a Civic Horse to Water?” National Civic Review 91:3 (Fall 2002): 213–234. 37 Erica Sagon, “‘La Grande’ Eateries to Take Show on
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_meetings/2007/102407/1024_2007_LCA%20Report%20to%20Council.pdf (accessed January 1, 2007). 48 Lee Sobel, Greyfields into Goldfields (San Francisco: Congress for the New Urbanism, 2002), 51. 49 Quoted in Christopher Swope, “After the Mall,” Governing (October 2002): 20–25. 50 Quoted in Sandra Tan, “Aging Retail Outlets Present a
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at http://www.cnu.org/node/127. 73 For more information on this transaction, see Sarah Pulleyblank, Civilizing Downtown Highways (San Francisco: Congress for the New Urbanism, 2002). The financing is also described in Bruce Liedstrand and Kristen Paulsen, “Cathedral City Downtown,” a Livable Places Profile produced for the Coachella Valley Association
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Magazine, October 28, 2007. 5 Cape Trends, “Housing Growth, Part I,” September 8, 2005, http://www.capecodcommission.org/data/capetrends.htm. 6 Peter Katz, The New Urbanism (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994), 169–177. Participants in the first Mashpee Commons charrette included Alex Krieger, John Massengale, and Anne Tate. 7 Storrs. 8
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for Public Life,” Places 14:2 (2001): 48–55. 7 David Brain, “From Good Neighborhoods to Sustainable Cities: Social Science and the Social Agenda of New Urbanism,” International Regional Science Review 28:2 (April 2005): 217–238. 8 Since the 1980 Supreme Court decision in Pruneyard v. Robbins, the legal standing of
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://www.epa.gov/piedpage/case/legacy.htm. 41 Neal Templin, “Can a Dull Office Park Give Birth to a Town? EDS Plan for Development Gives ‘New Urbanism’ a Corporate Ambiance,” Wall Street Journal (eastern edition), November 24, 1999, B16. 42 Haya El Nasser, “Suburban Office Parks Get Urban Injection,” USA Today, September
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, Urban Design Associates, September 2004.” Chapter 10 1 Victor Dover, “The Revitalization of Main Street: Kendall, Florida,” in The Seaside Debates: A Critique of the New Urbanism (New York: Rizzoli, 2002), 59. 2 Ibid., 62. 3 Jonathan Barnett, Redesigning Cities: Principles, Practice, Implementation (Chicago: APA Planners Press, 2003), 170–171. 4 Joseph
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, Colorado) CityCenter Englewood (Englewood, Colorado) civic leadership civic space civility Civitas Inc. Cleveland Galleria Cloud 9 Sky Flats (Minnetonka, Minnesota) CNU. see Congress for the New Urbanism coalitions codes. see also regulations, revision of form-based Mashpee Commons Code Quality of Life Zoning Codes SmartCode Colerain Avenue (U.S. Route 27, Ohio
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County) condominiums Downtown Kendall/Dadeland Nouvelle at Natick Perimeter Place spadominiums University Town Center congestion commuting to office parks infilling edge cities Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) Connecticut General Life Insurance headquarters (Bloomfield, Connecticut) connectivity. see also interconnectivity consensus building Continuum Partners Cooper Carry Inc. corporate campuses corridors. see also commercial
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The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us
by Joel Kotkin · 11 Apr 2016 · 565pp · 122,605 words
characteristic thing about democracy is its diffusion of power among the people.”60 This movement continued, notes economist Ed Glaeser, despite widespread suggestions that “a New Urbanism”—associated with higher-density housing and greater transit use—was generally gaining at the expense of suburbs.61 Indeed, before the 2008 financial crisis, the
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life has almost ceased to exist,” although this assertion is not backed up with any data.140 The suburb, according to the Congress for the New Urbanism, “spells the end of authentic civic life.”141 The more hyperbolic social critic James Howard Kunstler goes even further. “The state-of-the-art mega
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Yet these claims that social comity can be created by architecture are somewhat exaggerated, to be charitable. New Urbanist Léon Krier, for example, claims that New Urbanism can bring together “diverse ages, races and incomes,” citing Seaside and Celebration, Florida, as his examples. This is certainly an odd choice, given that most
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, Peter, MOLLENKOPF, John, and SWANSTROM, Todd. (2002). Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-first Century, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. DREILING, Martin. (2007, December 24). “New Urbanism Examined by Time Magazine, Andres Duany,” Planetizen, http://www.planetizen.com/node/29063. DREW, Rachel Bogardus and HERBERT, Christopher. (2012, August). “Post-Recession Drivers or
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of Urban Regional Economics, http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/Faculty/henderson/sprawl.pdf. GLAESER, Edward L. and SHAPIRO, Jesse. (2001, June). “Is There a New Urbanism? Growth of US Cities in the 1990s,” Discussion paper 1925, Harvard Institute of Economic Research. GLOBAL WORKPLACE ANALYTICS. “Pros and Cons,” http://globalworkplaceanalytics.com/pros
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, Greg. (2008, July 17). “The Declining Value of Your College Degree,” Wall Street Journal, http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121623686919059307. IRETON, Michael. (2005, August 16). “New Urbanism anything but authentic,” FFWD Weekly. ISRAEL, Jonathan I. (1995). The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness and Fall, Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISSACS, Julia B. (2009
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Springs, 9 Columbia, Maryland, 177 Comcast, 130 Commuting patterns, 186–187 The Condition of the Working Class in England (Engels), 27–28 Congress for the New Urbanism, 161 “Connected” cities, 84–85 Connectivity human, 85–87 physical, among global cities, 84–85 Connolly, Cyril, 146 Construction costs, 11–12 Consultants, desires of
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consumer cities, 36–42 New Deal, 30, 150, 176 New Jersey, 178 New Orleans, 32, 107, 144–145 News Corp, 130 New social environment, 132 New Urbanism, 7, 151, 161, 164 New urban paradigm, 19, 42–43. See also Human city New York City black children living in, 156 childlessness in, 117
Data and the City
by Rob Kitchin,Tracey P. Lauriault,Gavin McArdle · 2 Aug 2017
with urban cybernetics in the 1970s (Flood 2011; Townsend 2013), the development of new forms of city managerialism and urban entrepreneurship, including smart growth and new urbanism, in the 1980s and 1990s (Hollands 2008; Wolfram 2012; Söderström et al. 2014; Vanolo 2014), and the fusing of ICT and urban infrastructure and development
Suburban Nation
by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck · 14 Sep 2010 · 321pp · 85,267 words
STATE GOVERNMENT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ARCHITECTS CITIZENS SUBURBAN NATION Acclaim for SUBURBAN NATION APPENDIX A - THE TRADITIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CHECKLIST APPENDIX B - THE CONGRESS FOR THE NEW URBANISM ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY SOURCES OF ILLUSTRATIONS INDEX Notes Copyright Page PREFACE TO THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION THE STORY OF SUBURBAN NATION Now that Suburban Nation
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compelling in person, produced something other than English. I consider this voice to be an essential aspect of the book’s popularity, just as the New Urbanism movement can credit much of its ascendancy to Andres’s charisma and sense of humor. Most of the jokes in the book are his, not
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benefits of urban walking as part of a daily routine. Many organizations have sprung up to promote this change. Among them, the Congress for the New Urbanism, by setting out principles for regional, neighborhood, street, and block design, has influenced many town plans, as well as national standards for traffic engineering. The
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Building, Architecture and Urbanism, and other sister organizations in Australia, Israel, the Philippines, and India are globalizing shared principles and experiences. The Lexicon of the New Urbanism—a continuously updated collaborative work—has advanced theory and technique, introducing the rural-to-urban transect as an organizing structure for conservation and development and
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and governors are including anti-sprawl language prominently in their campaign platforms, with strong grass-roots support. An international organization called the Congress for the New Urbanism, now with over one thousand members, has dedicated itself to the eradication of sprawl. (Its charter is provided in Appendix B.) But this is not
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three hundred new neighborhood and community revitalization plans, most notably for Seaside, Florida, and Kentlands, Maryland. They are co-founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism and they lecture and teach widely, including at the University of Miami, where Plater-Zyberk is Dean of the School of Architecture. After leading projects
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, or colors (plus trim)? (If two materials are used, the heavier [looking] material shall be located below the lighter.) APPENDIX B THE CONGRESS FOR THE NEW URBANISM Advocates for a return to traditional urbanism seem to defy political classification. While academics call the neighborhood model reactionary and homebuilders call it radical, the
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, especially in today’s media-saturated culture. One encouraging development in the attempt to effect change has been the founding of the Congress for the New Urbanism, an international organization dedicated to the replacement of sprawl with a neighborhood-based alternative. First organized in 1994, the CNU was modeled on CIAM (Congrès
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much work remains to be done. Congress VII, in Milwaukee, was attended by over one thousand members. The stated principles of the Congress for the New Urbanism are straightforward: In order to promote community, the built environment must be diverse in use and population, scaled for the pedestrian, and capable of supporting
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public realm supported by buildings reflecting the architecture and ecology of the region. These principles are further described in the CNU Charter, included below. The New Urbanism goes by many names, but the Congress chose this one for its political neutrality, and for the accuracy with which it conveys an enthusiasm for
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, which populates many New Urban neighborhoods, has an airy, freeflowing interior enclosed within a colonial shell. Neotraditionalism is an apt term to describe the New Urbanism, because the New Urbanism’s intention is to advocate what works best: what pattern of development is the most environmentally sensitive, socially responsible, and economically sustainable. As is
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to work best is a historic model—the traditional neighborhood—adapted as necessary to serve the needs of modern man. The commonsense nature of the New Urbanism bodes well for its future. The fact that it was not invented, but selected and adapted from existing models, dramatically distinguishes it from the concepts
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some faith in human experience. Further experience will no doubt modify the precepts and techniques of the New Urbanism, but that is as it should be. THE CHARTER OF THE NEW URBANISM INTRODUCTION The Congress for the New Urbanism views divestment in central cities, the spread of placeless sprawl, increasing separation by race and income, environmental
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renewal of historic buildings, districts, and landscapes affirm the continuity and evolution of urban society. For CNU membership information, please contact: The Congress for the New Urbanism The Hearst Building 5 Third Street, Suite 725 San Francisco, CA 94103 415-495-2255 www.cnu.org For more information about the Traditional Neighborhood
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efforts.dy We must also acknowledge the many idealistic professionals who have joined us in battle, most notably our colleagues in the Congress for the New Urbanism. Our co-founders of the Congress—Peter Calthorpe, Liz Moule, Stef Polyzoides, and Daniel Solomon—have played no small part in the development of the
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ideas advanced here. Before there was a Congress for the New Urbanism, this book’s principles were nurtured over many years in two extremely supportive environments. One is the University of Miami, where a true school of
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Surveys, a comprehensive study compiled by Brooke Warrick’s American Lives. 2 Christopher Kent, Market Performance, 3. 3 Charles Tu and Mark Eppli, Valuing the New Urbanism, 8. 7. THE VICTIMS OF SPRAWL 1 Julie V. Iovine, “From Mall Rat to Suburbia’s Scourge,” 62-63. 2 Stephanie Faul, “How to Crash
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City Centers.” USA Today, November 4, 1997: 1A-2A. ————. “You Can’t Get There from Here.” USA Today, November 4, 1997: 2A. Katz, Peter. The New Urbanism. New York: McGraw Hill, 1993. Kay, Jane Holtz. Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America, and How We Can Take It Back. New York
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, April 30, 1993. Reps, John. The Making of Urban America. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1965. Rising, Nelson. Speech at the second Congress for the New Urbanism, Los Angeles, May 21, 1994. Road Kill: How Driving Solo Runs Down the Economy. Report by the Conservation Law Foundation, 1994. Rogers, Will. The Trust
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—November 1981) (full double issue). Stilgoe, John R. Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. Steuteville, Robert. The New Urbanism and Traditional Neighborhood Development: Comprehensive Report and Best Practices Guide. Ithaca, N.Y: New Urban Press, 1999. Surface Transportation Policy Project. “Campaign Connection.” Surface Transportation
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Transportation Bill. Report, 1998. Swift, Peter. “Residential Street Typology and Injury Accident Frequency.” Report by Swift Associates, 1997. Tu, Charles, and Mark Eppli. Valuing the New Urbanism: The Case of Kentlands. Report by the George Washington University Department of Finance, 1997. Unwin, Raymond. Town Planning in Practice. New York: Princeton Architectural Press
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; variety and community policing Community Reinvestment Act commuters compliance review process congestion pricing Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM) Congress, U.S. Congress for the New Urbanism; charter of connectivity continuity, retail convenience stores “cookie cutter” design Coral Gables (Florida) Cornell (Markham, Ontario) corner stores; transit stops at corporate parks corporations, disinvestment
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law clearly manifests the desire to keep away what one has left behind. f Data given by Nelson Rising at the second Congress for the New Urbanism, Los Angeles, May 21, 1994. From 1970 to 1990, Los Angeles grew 45 percent in population and 300 percent in size (Christopher Leinberger, Robert Charles
The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class?and What We Can Do About It
by Richard Florida · 9 May 2016 · 356pp · 91,157 words
was writing this book, I envisioned a new Democratic administration that would undertake the deep and sustained investments that are required to usher in this new urbanism for all. In earlier versions, I made a sweeping case for transforming and expanding the Department of Housing and Urban Development into a broader Department
The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is Moving
by Leigh Gallagher · 26 Jun 2013 · 296pp · 76,284 words
Peter Calthorpe, the San Francisco–based architect and urban planner who pioneered the notion of transit-oriented development and who, as a cofounder of the New Urbanism movement, is one of the leading thinkers on alternative growth models to conventional suburban development. Millennials hate the burbs . . . America’s eighty million so-called
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area, stores in another, and office space and industrial spaces in others. Andres Duany, a renowned architect and planner, and, as a founder of the New Urbanism movement, one of the leading critics of sprawl, likens this setup to an “unmade omelet,” with “eggs, cheese, vegetables, a pinch of salt, but each
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up with solutions to it, looking to traditional European city planning as their inspiration. In 1993 they organized under the name the “Congress for the New Urbanism,” with the goal of promoting the design and building of traditional neighborhoods that were small and walkable, mixed stores and housing together, and emphasized community
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a central part of the American Dream. For his part, Chuck Marohn is still spreading his message and is gaining cult hero status within the New Urbanism movement and the broader planning community. He’s now a Delta Gold member who’s logged over one hundred thousand air miles in the past
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’t lend itself to any other type of transportation. “The suburbs as we knew them were a petroleum-derived derivative,” says Victor Dover, a leading New Urbanism architect and planner. George Washington University’s Christopher Leinberger puts it another way: “We social engineered the system to where you only have one choice
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sitting in meeting room 1E of the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. I’m here for the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), the annual gathering of the nation’s leading anti-sprawl movement. For twenty years, the New Urbanists have been promoting the development of smaller
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sitting next to me in meeting room 1E has an image of a mixed-use pedestrian village as her screen saver. The Congress for the New Urbanism officially describes itself as “the leading organization promoting walkable, neighborhood-based development as an antidote to formless sprawl.” Organized in the early 1990s, the movement
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public transit, and the incorporation of the kinds of urban design methods that were common before World War II. They established the Congress for the New Urbanism as their organizing body and created a charter outlining their guiding principles. “We stand for the restoration of existing urban centers and towns within coherent
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was a management and town planning genius.) Over the course of the next two days while in West Palm Beach, I get an indoctrination into New Urbanism principles: I learn there is an inverse relationship between the length of a block and how many people will choose to walk down it, that
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invoked as many times as the movement’s enemy as Jane Jacobs is as their hero. The main principles of New Urbanism have not changed much since its founding twenty years ago. New Urbanism is not a rating or rule book like, say, LEED, the third-party green building accreditation that requires structures adhere
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—a sort of neighborhood DNA code—for developers, planners, designers, and policy makers who wish to design neighborhoods based on traditional town planning methods. Most New Urbanism developments have certain identifying characteristics: narrower or more “modest-sized” streets, an easily identifiable town center, a Main Street lined with buildings that mix commercial
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spaces, and a mixture of housing types throughout the rest of the neighborhood—single-family detached houses, attached town houses, and apartments—all commingled together. New Urbanism is not architecture; New Urbanists are almost agnostic to what the houses’ exteriors look like, or even to the architectural style of the neighborhood. In
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the same way Clarence Perry, whose neighborhood unit helped transform suburban design, had nothing to do with the design of homes in those neighborhoods, New Urbanism theories relate primarily to a community’s bones, or the design and layout of the neighborhood itself. As it was with Seaside, the goal of
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New Urbanism is to create neighborhoods whose design serves a social as well as a physical purpose. The mix of housing stock, for instance, ensures that a
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former Stapleton International Airport. Many of these communities build anti-suburban claims in their marketing materials, which can read more like manifestos. Slogans for various New Urbanism developments include “life within walking distance” and “more life per square foot”; others implore home owners to “add the charm that’s missing from suburban
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living.” I’On, a New Urbanism development just across the Charleston harbor in the South Carolina Lowcountry, makes the specific boast that its porches are eight feet deep or more, “to
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it feels right when they walk to the market.” To see these principles in person, I decided to visit one of the oldest and largest New Urbanism communities, Kentlands in Gaithersburg, Maryland, a 350-acre development built on a former farm estate thirty miles northwest of Washington, DC. Conceived in 1988 by
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I make a left into a big suburban commercial retail center that includes a Giant, Kmart, Party City, Panera Bread, and more. One criticism of New Urbanism is that the communities themselves are often built deep within suburbia on large tracts of land, and by the time I get to Kentlands I
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been cut and pasted into the middle of suburbia. I meet Diane Dorney, a twenty-year resident and founder of the Town Paper, the first New Urbanism newspaper published out of Kentlands, at the Starbucks in the Kentlands Market Square for a tour. Market Square is composed of two intersecting streets, Market
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commercial space to a woman who runs a wellness center, and live on the two floors above it. Live/work spaces are a hallmark of New Urbanism; the stores bring the foot traffic, and the presence of residents keeps “eyes on the street,” in Jane Jacobs parlance, making the area safe at
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night. We start to head away from town on Hart Road, a narrow residential street lined with town houses. The densest part of New Urbanism developments is the downtown; the farther away you get, the bigger and more spread out the homes become, but that’s only a matter of
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front door and the edge of the sidewalk, is as little as six feet and no more than twenty feet. That’s because houses in New Urbanism communities are intended to “pull up” to the public realm, that is, the sidewalk or street. The basic rule of thumb is that the front
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back. There are eight different “neighborhoods” in Kentlands, but they all include a range of housing types and lot sizes. This variety is critical in New Urbanism, as an alternative to the formula-based identical lots of conventional subdivisions. On Selby Street, we walk by a larger colonial house that’s right
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build on large plots often in the middle of nowhere, which has led to the nickname “New Suburbanism” (one blogger described New Urbanism as a “pretty veil over common suburbia”). New Urbanism communities can be expensive to build and their homes expensive to buy. Getting over conventional zoning codes is often problematic and requires
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have been followed and copied over the years. In 1996, Disney opened Celebration, Florida, its five-thousand-acre master-planned community near Orlando, largely on New Urbanism principles, though it did not bill it a New Urbanist community. In the mid-1990s, the Department of Housing and Urban Development adopted New Urbanist
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criteria in its program to build public housing projects. The Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Learning now offers a master’s in architecture and New Urbanism. And there is some indication that when the opportunity to rebuild from scratch presents itself, the New Urbanists get called in. After Hurricane Katrina, 170
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after Hurricane Sandy. Membership in CNU is growing, and there is a new offshoot group for the movement’s younger generation. During the housing crisis, New Urbanism communities around the country held up better than traditional suburban communities, performance that won the attention of policy makers and the conventional home-building community
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. The FHA recently loosened the restrictions on the percentage of commercial space that can be attached to residential units. Certain municipalities are starting to bake New Urbanism tenets into their planning methods—even in Texas, of all places. El Paso recently became the first city in the United States to require that
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these recent successes. “Isn’t it interesting,” he says, “that the world has come to us?” Perhaps the biggest proof of the growing adoption of New Urbanism theories is that the large home builders, who don’t tend to care much for the social aspect of the movement or the well-intended
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have adjusted their original plans and are building a massive New Urbanist community instead. It’s important to note that not all of these are New Urbanism developments; New Urbanists, after all, didn’t invent the concept of walkable villages, and the giant urban town centers can be a lot less charming
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that these kinds of communities are more valuable than subdivision-style development. Studies have shown that people are willing to pay more to live in New Urbanism communities than in conventional suburban neighborhoods. A 2001 study that analyzed more than two thousand single-family home transactions found that buyers paid a 15
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of all stripes are seeing this research play out in the market, and many of real estate’s biggest names are coming closer to the New Urbanism way of thinking. Rick Caruso, the Southern California real estate mogul who built the Grove, a retail, dining, and entertainment complex attached to the historic
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of copies of that book when I speak.” • • • Given all these shifts, it shouldn’t be a surprise that even the religious revivalist wing of New Urbanism is drawing some unlikely converts. Take John McLinden, a friendly, gregarious Chicago native and, like Sam Sherman in Philadelphia, a veteran conventional builder. (John Norquist
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, the head of the Congress for the New Urbanism, chided McLinden when he saw him walking the halls of the CNU conference last year. “He’s a former sprawlmeister!” he teased.) But in 2010
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from Libertyville’s bustling Main Street. He bid on the land and won—and began turning School Street into what is essentially a model of New Urbanism: a row of twenty-six arts and crafts–style bungalows nestled right up against one another, each with its own wide front porch. He invited
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with McLinden at the NAHB show (he and I might have been the only two people who attended both the home builders’ show and the New Urbanism conference), his enthusiasm was contagious. “It’s city living in the suburbs,” he says eagerly, sitting so far on the edge of his seat, he
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after the downturn: Kevin C. Gillen, PhD, “The Correlates of House Price Changes with Geography, Density, Design and Use: Evidence from Philadelphia,” Congress for the New Urbanism, October 2012. Studying more than ninety thousand home sales: Joe Cortright, Impresa Inc., for the organization CEOs for Cities, “Walking the Walk: How Walkability Raises
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Towns. Steuteville estimates that there are another thousand-plus neighborhoods or more that have been revitalized in the last ten to twenty years in which New Urbanism thinking has played a part in the vision, building design, codes, street design, public design, or all of the above. one blogger described
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New Urbanism: Chris DeWolf, “Why New Urbanism Fails,” Planetizen.com, February 18, 2002. celebrity author and urban theorist Richard Florida: Florida continues this theme in the foreword to Ellen Dunham-Jones and
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, a housing economist: Kevin C. Gillen, PhD, “The Correlates of House Price Changes with Geography, Density, Design and Use: Evidence from Philadelphia,” Congress for the New Urbanism, October 2012. A separate study of metropolitan Washington, DC: Christopher B. Leinberger and Mariela Alfonzo, “Walk This Way: The Economic Promise of Walkable Places in
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concepts, 157 Concept homes, configuration of, 6–7 Condominiums, developments by suburban developers, 163–66 “Confessions of a Recovering Engineer” (Marohn), 57, 63 Congress for New Urbanism, 52, 113–15, 140 Conservatives, suburbs, support by, 62–63 Cooper, Gary, 194–95 Coors Field, 176 Corporations relocation to cities, 173–76 relocation to
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reduction in cities (2011), 169, 188 in suburbs, 17, 179, 206 Critics of suburbia adolescents, negative factors for, 90, 98, 179 anti-sprawl movement. See New Urbanism; Walkable communities auto accident increases, 82–85 automobile dependence, 79–81, 85–86, 89–91 commuting issue, 94–99 crime, rise in, 17, 179, 206
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, 202 Dorney, Diane, 122–25 Dorsey, Jack, 93 Dover, Victor, 81 Drivable suburbia, housing market in, 199 Duany, Andres, 52, 115–18, 130. See also New Urbanism background information, 115–17 on Pensacola Parking Syndrome, 63 post-disaster planning, 126 reactions to ideas of, 193–94 on sprawl, 40 on suburban benefits
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walking, benefits for, 92–93 Speck, Jeff, 83, 118 Spitz, Steven, 79–80, 112 Sports stadiums, in cities, 176–77 Sprawl anti-sprawl movement. See New Urbanism; Walkable communities and automobile dependence, 82 excessive costs of, 60 history of, 45–46 Stapleton, Colorado, 120–21 Stein, Clarence, 33 Steiner, Christopher, 104 Sterling
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–63, 193–96 shopping malls, 44–45, 180–81 surplus of homes, future view, 159–160 trends impacting, 5–8, 14–22 urbanized suburbs. See New Urbanism; Walkable communities varieties of, 9, 13, 15–16 Suburbs, The (album), 51, 79 Suburgatory (TV series), 91 Susanka, Sarah, 137, 139–140 Swank, Larry, 7
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as bonus, 133, 170–71 home value increase in, 111, 130–32 as market of future, 25–26, 130, 142 millennials’ preference for, 157–59 New Urbanism communities, 128 obesity, lack of, 89 older suburb transformations, 128–29 retrofitted shopping malls as, 180–81 social interaction elements, 116, 120, 123, 134, 136
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Fair (1939), 64 Yearley, Douglas, 18, 164, 166, 189–190, 208–9 Yergin, Daniel, 105 Zappos, 92, 174–76 Zell, Sam, 165 Zipcars, 108 Zoning New Urbanism communities, 126 single-use zoning issue, 39–42, 63 Zuckerberg, Mark, 93 Table of Contents PRAISE FOR The End of the Suburbs TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT
Straphanger
by Taras Grescoe · 8 Sep 2011 · 428pp · 134,832 words
idealistic people are working hard to reclaim neighborhoods once left for dead. The movement goes under a variety of names: transit-oriented development, smart growth, new urbanism. In the wrong mouths, these are just buzzwords; in the wrong hands, they can serve as the justification for boondoggles as bad as any hastily
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: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Lewyn, Michael. “Debunking Cato: Why Portland Works Better than the Analysis of Its Chief Neo-Libertarian Critic.” Congress for the New Urbanism, http://www.cnu.org/node/1533. McNichol, Dan. The Roads that Built America: The Incredible Story of the U.S. Interstate System. New York: Sterling
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York: Crown Journeys, 2003. Ozawa, Connie, ed. The Portland Edge. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2004. Pobodnik, Bruce. “Assessing the Social and Environmental Achievements of New Urbanism: Evidence from Portland, Oregon.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, 2009. Schrank, David, et al. “2010 Urban Mobility
Road to ruin: an introduction to sprawl and how to cure it
by Dom Nozzi · 15 Dec 2003 · 282pp · 69,481 words
dependent became unbearable for a critical mass of people. Twenty more years? Fifty? But there is hope. An important subcategory of smart growth is the “New Urbanism,” a strategy of community and neighborhood design that uses timeless, traditional development principles at the same time it incorporates contemporary technology and values; the pedestrian
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and wildlife preserve (a concept New Urbanists call a “transect“ system). For the walkable portion of the community, the leading design paradigm today is the New Urbanism. New Urbanism is a set of development practices that creates more people-oriented communities—attractive, efficient, sociable, and pedestrian friendly—at the same time that it significantly
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reduces car dependence. According to Duany, a leader in this design strategy: “Since its founding in 1992, New Urbanism has been the antithesis of sprawl, because it designs communities that are balanced in function; creates inclusive housing; supports home-based business; spa-tially defines
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, USA. When we design communities on the scale of people—pedestrians, bicyclists, shopkeepers, neighbors—a number of desirable features fall into place. The principles of New Urbanism result in people-scaled communities. Noted architect and New Urbanist Leon Krier defined such a community in 1977 as “a neighborhood where I can buy
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more affordable. In addition, the higher, yet livable, density that smaller lots create makes public transit more viable.21 As for the streets themselves, again New Urbanism‘s goal is a less car dependent, more people-friendly design. “One of the most important—but least understood—aspects of architecture and urban design
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“geography of nowhere.”37 A WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING We should be on guard not to allow projects touted as New Urbanist that deliver New Urbanism‘s principles only in a skin-deep way, such as those that perpetuate car dependence, or that fail to provide a mix of housing affordability
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, even if the houses have front porches or other forms of window dressing. NEW URBANISM AND THE POOR I am always astounded when people attack New Urbanism as elitist and not in the best interests of poor people. It seems as obvious to me that an auto
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-dominated community is as detrimental to poor people as it seems obvious that community designrecommended by New Urbanism reduces the need for car travel and
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is beneficial. New Urbanism seems to be the best chance to reduce car dependency through urban design, which is an important reason why I
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are often important for low-income jobs and revenue. Finally, in these communities, walking is less pleasant and safe, and public transit less viable. Quality New Urbanism promises and delivers a more affordable future.Regulations Successful City Planning: Public action that generates a desirable, widespread and sustained private market reaction. —Alexander Garvin
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-FRIENDLY COMMUNITIES Greyhound’s slogan for years went something like “Take the bus . . . and leave the driving to us.” Some development that incorporates features of New Urbanism—traffic calming, mixed-use development, and traditional neighborhood design—goes a step further by making public transit stations and transit stops a key design element
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downtown, “must prevail over the needs of motor vehicles.”19 A TRADITIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD: EVERYONE BENEFITS To recap, these are the advantages for communities of the New Urbanism, people- and transit-friendly development, and traditional neighborhoods (when they are done right): People without access to a car, such as children, the elderly, and
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.html. Accessed 15 October 2002. 46. Conservation Law Foundation, Take Back Your Streets, 26. 47. Surface Transportation Policy Project, ISTEA Year Three. 48. Lockwood, “The New Urbanism’s Call,” 10. 49. Fulton et. al., Who Sprawls Most? 3. 50. Chen, “The Science of Smart Growth,” 85. 51. Bookout, “Neotraditional Town Planning,” 10
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. Freeman, “The Effects of Sprawl,” 76. 41. Ewald, A Concept, 52–53. 42. Institute of Transportation Engineers, Traditional Neighborhood Development, 5. 43. Congress for the New Urbanism, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1997. 44. Longman, “Sprawl,” 44. 45. Sayer, “The Costs of Sprawl,” 11. 46. Heimlich and Anderson, Development at the Urban Fringe; Chen
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1996. ———. “Transportation Elasticities.” Online TDM Encyclopedia. Victoria Transport Policy Institute, 2003. http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm11.htm. Accessed 2 February 2003. Lockwood, C. “The New Urbanism’s Call to Arms.” Urban Land 53, 2 (1994): 10. Longman, P. “Sprawl.” Florida Trend, December 1994. Lucy, W. H. “Watch Out: It’s Dangerous
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, expectations, 82–83 73, 79, 136, 139 Sprawl, 14–15, 20, 28, 45, 60, 100 costs of, 8–9, 70, 72, 74–75, 78, 133 New urbanism, 106–9, 116–17, origins of, 15–16, 52–56, 59, 63–67, 123–24, 133–34 74, 133, 137 No-growthers, 8–9, 40
Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back
by Douglas Rushkoff · 1 Jun 2009 · 422pp · 131,666 words
-estate agent. Birkdale was meant to serve as an antidote to the dislocation of the regular suburbs, and an application of a theory known as New Urbanism to the real world. The approach was first pioneered by the urbanist Jane Jacobs, a vocal critic of the land-use policies of the 1950s
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and keeps the sidewalks busy and safe late into the night. It’s hard to plan a town from scratch according to the principles of New Urbanism. Greenwich Village happened over a couple of centuries. Birkdale Village had to happen a lot faster. Its two institutional investors and lending banks needed to
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motion. Dunning is the first to admit that he bent the rules of New Urban-ism to fit the realities of his development situation. “Strict New Urbanism is dogmatically sustainable and ecologically friendly development. But there are market forces, developer mind-sets, retail mind-sets, and economic realities that don’t always
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it’s like to walk around outside with other people. Isn’t reconnecting to a fake town better than not connecting at all? Although the New Urbanism aesthete will deride the people of Birkdale for responding to the cues embedded in its absolutely planned and artificial re-creation of small-town life
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, where does such orthodoxy get us? Is Birkdale just a cynical application of watered-down New Urbanism to make the Gap look and feel more like a local business? Or does it help transform the otherwise alienating landscape of the suburbs into
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our urban and suburban landscapes doesn’t mean that corporations offer the best hope of restoring a social fabric. To the companies paying for it, New Urbanism is the latest in a long series of efforts to take advantage of the deadened suburbs and crumbling, crime-ridden cities. With the civic sector
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logic of corporatism—we have no choice but to record it as another success story. Finally, as with Birkdale Village, corporations abuse the logic of New Urbanism to develop mall towns from the bottom up. These are not genuinely diverse communities in the spirit of Jane Jacobs’s West Village, but selling
The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
by Alan Ehrenhalt · 23 Apr 2012 · 281pp · 86,657 words
generation, or even a large part of it, density—somewhere—is the only real choice. DENSITY HAS BEEN, in many ways, the principal theme of New Urbanism, the movement that is now two decades old and has had a profound if not quite revolutionary impact on the shape of cities all over
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of sociability that placed walking at the center of the urban experience. Many public officials and planning professionals were first introduced to the principles of New Urbanism through the vehicle of lectures and slide shows documenting the ugliness of suburban sprawl and the intelligence of urban design as practiced in many places
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square, and a whole array of other reminders of the old-fashioned, pedestrian-friendly American small town. The first half of the 1990s brought the New Urbanism a reputation and a following far beyond what its founders could have predicted. Not that a whole collection of Seasides emerged on the American landscape
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a whole battery of terms that might have come straight out of the New Urbanist charter. The annual summer meetings of the Congress for the New Urbanism quickly grew from single-room bull sessions into big-time extravaganzas, with hundreds of participants, dozens of speakers, and coverage by numerous reporters from America
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practical. A shopping center was eventually built just across the road from Kentlands, and the residents could walk to it, but it was everything the New Urbanism abhors: cookie-cutter, strip mall–type retail units separated from the street by acres of parking lot. Kentlands hasn’t been a failure by any
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transit connections and struggled to achieve the critical mass to make main-street commercial development viable on its own. Nearly two decades after its founding, New Urbanism was still trying to create a community that embodied all the elements of its doctrine and seeking to retrofit or urbanize the suburbs in a
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Urbanists: Alan Ehrenhalt, “The Dilemma of the New Urbanists,” Governing, July 1997, p. 7. 13 “the most important phenomenon to emerge”: Herbert Muschamp, “Can the New Urbanism Find Room for the Old?” New York Times, June 2, 1996, p. 27. 14 “It is so far beyond what anyone else has done”: Quoted
A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard
by Simon Jenkins · 7 Nov 2024 · 364pp · 94,801 words
on his Duchy of Cornwall land outside Dorchester. This would be high-density, traffic limited and designed by Léon Krier, an apostle of the American New Urbanism. This stressed respect for traditional townscape and its social and environmental character. Krier’s motto was, ‘I’m an architect, because I don’t build
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(Sussex) 241 New Lanark (Lanarkshire) 125, 160 New Society (magazine) 242 new towns 201, 204, 209, 210, 223–7, 239–40 see also garden cities New Urbanism 239 New Wardour Castle (Wiltshire) 101 New Ways (Northampton) 195 New York 192, 254, 255, 262 Chrysler building 186 Soho 255 Sony Tower 246 Tribeca
Aerotropolis
by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay · 2 Jan 2009 · 603pp · 182,781 words
made it his mission to imbue Airworld’s geography of nowhere with a sense of place. There is no better place to start building this New Urbanism than in Denver, whose hub is the cleanest slate. What will these cities look like, and where should we look for a model? The answer
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be the problem. The accompanying manifesto touts four precepts. The first and most important is the “New Suburbanism,” a deliberate echo (and subversion) of the New Urbanism first practiced by the architects Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. They built cities you could walk in— neighborhoods with schools and shops, parks and
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, Florida. Its invocation of the Panhandle’s beach cottages was made famous by The Truman Show as a town too halcyon to be true. But New Urbanism has succeeded in building entire communities from scratch and rehabbing sick ones. Any Mayberryness is just salesmanship, a shortcut for convincing a skeptical generation of
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highway and a “town center” supposed to be its answer to Main Street. It’s what urban planners have in mind when they talk about New Urbanism—“urban villages,” in Reunion’s own description, fusing “commercial, educational, civic, cultural, and entertainment uses.” In other words, it’s a place to mail a
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twenty-year marriage to the project and paid its dowry up front to prove it. In turn, it drafted Peter Calthorpe, a founding father of New Urbanism, to help patch the battered and polluted site back into the urban fabric. Following his movement’s scripture, Calthorpe’s plan dutifully broke down the
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it anew someplace else. It was something he’d thought about before briefing visting members of Parliament on how they might go about rehabbing Heathrow. “ ‘New Urbanism’ is a funny term, because it’s really the old urbanism,” he said. “Peter [Calthorpe] would tell you you can have
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New Urbanism anywhere.” And so would Gleason’s boss, Jon Ratner. The youngest member of the Ratner clan is arguably its most radical. Having started work at
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the city agreed to rezone the land, the firm promised to build the downtown Mesa never had, an exercise in “twenty-first-century desert urbanism”—New Urbanism with stucco flourishes. The plan depends on Gateway living up to its name and winning flights from the region’s hub, Phoenix–Sky Harbor. Impressed
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in our kit is something called “transit oriented development,” an idea coined by Peter Calthorpe the same year he helped found the Congress for the New Urbanism. The name says it all: neighborhoods and cities built along the splines of public transit. Sometimes that can be buses, but typically it means trains
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took place at New Songdo in August 2009. It is the slightly modified lead to a story I wrote for Fast Company called “The New New Urbanism” (February 2010). I drew upon source materials provided by Gale International, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, and interviews with Gale International’s Stan Gale and John
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. William H. Whyte’s map plotting the relationship between corporate relocations and the CEO’s country club is found in City. For an introduction to New Urbanism and the ideas of Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, I recommend Suburban Nation. The notion of Denver and the Front Range as a “megapolitan
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mentors of, 5, 164–67, 339–40, 424–25; Law of Connectivity by, 113–19, 272, 333, 339, 423; Memphis seen as aerotropolis by, 79; new urbanism in ideas of, 136; and Orange County airport debate, 36; speeches and conference appearances by, 8, 173, 339; Subic Bay as validation for, 171; 21st
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; master plan for, 354–57; popularity of, 357; as ’smart’ city, 357; as Western style city, 355 New Suburbanism, as illustrated by Reunion, 140–44 New Urbanism, Detroit as testcase for, 195–96 New York, N.Y.: carbon footprint of residents in, 356; cities in style of, 20–21 NextGen traffic control
City 2.0: The Habitat of the Future and How to Get There
by Ted Books · 20 Feb 2013 · 83pp · 23,805 words
principally made medicine more expensive. It’s time to invest in walking. * * * Notes 1. L. Frank, keynote (18th national conference of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Atlanta, May 2010). 2. J. Gehl, Cities for People (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2010), 111. 3. N. Peirce, “Biking and Walking, Our Secret Weapon
Vanishing New York
by Jeremiah Moss · 19 May 2017 · 479pp · 140,421 words
mobility.” I’m not ready to make that adjustment. I’m not ready to give up on the city. Even Andrés Duany, the father of New Urbanism, sees a problem here. He complained to The Atlantic in 2010 that suburban young people are “destroying the city,” coming in like locusts with a
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Urban Strategy.” In Melissa S. Fisher et al., Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. ———. “New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy.” Antipode 34, no. 3 (2002). ———. The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City. London and New York: Routledge, 1996
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
by Jeff Speck · 13 Nov 2012 · 342pp · 86,256 words
killing us. For Dr. Jackson, the epiphany came in 1999, when he was driving on Atlanta’s Buford Highway—voted by the Congress for the New Urbanism as one of the ten “Worst Streets in America”1—a seven-laner flanked by low-income garden apartments, “with no sidewalks and two miles
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going to sue you when people die on your fat streets.” There is some good news. Thanks to the labors of the Congress for the New Urbanism, a nonprofit focused on making more livable cities,● we have made a start in changing the standards. The CNU teamed up with the Institute of
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Streets in America.” 2. Jeff Speck, “Our Ailing Communities: Q&A: Richard Jackson.” 3. Ibid. 4. Lawrence Frank, Lecture to the 18th Congress for the New Urbanism. 5. Molly Farmer, “South Jordan Mom Cited for Neglect for Allowing Child to Walk to School.” 6. Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson, Urban
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?” 6. Ibid. 7. Michael Mehaffy, “The Urban Dimensions of Climate Change.” 8. David Owen, Green Metropolis, 48, 104. 9. A Convenient Remedy, Congress for the New Urbanism video. 10. Witold Rybczynski, Makeshift Metropolis, 189. 11. The study was prepared by Jonathan Rose Associates, March 2011. 12. New Urban Network, “Study: Transit Outperforms
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Beatley, and Heather Boyer, Resilient Cities, 86–87. 4. Freemark, “Transit Mode Share Trends Looking Steady.” 5. Daniel Parolec, presentation to the Congress for the New Urbanism, June 2, 2011. 6. Terry Tamminen, Lives per Gallon, 112. 7. David Owen, Green Metropolis, 127. 8. Ibid., 121. 9. Andres Duany and Jeff Speck
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Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares: A Context-Sensitive Approach: An ITE Recommended Practice. Institute of Transportation Engineers and Congress for the New Urbanism, Washington, D.C., 2010. Duany, Andres, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck. Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
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, Educated Whites Moving to Urban Areas for Homes, Jobs.” Associated Press, May 9, 2010. RADIO, TELEVISION, FILM, AND SLIDESHOWS A Convenient Remedy. Congress for the New Urbanism video. Aubrey, Allison. “Switching Gears: More Commuters Bike to Work.” NPR Morning Edition, November 29, 2010. Barnett, David C. “A Comeback for Downtown Cleveland.” NPR
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-10-worst-cities-for-asthma. LECTURES AND CONFERENCES Brooks, David. Lecture. Aspen Institute, March 18, 2011. Frank, Lawrence. Lecture to the 18th Congress for the New Urbanism, Atlanta, Georgia, May 20, 2010. Gladwell, Malcolm. Remarks. Downtown Partnership of Baltimore Annual Meeting, November 17, 2010. Hales, Charles. Presentation at Rail-Volution, October 18
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(CSOs) community renewal block grants commuting: civic engagement and; health issues from; as least favorable activity; stress of Condon, Patrick congestion pricing Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) Connecticut, University of ConocoPhillips Consumer Preference Survey Cortright, Joe Cownie, Frank Cox, Wendell cycle track “Cycling for Few or for Everyone” (Pucher and Buehler
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structure Neighbors for Better Bike Lanes (New York City) New England Farmer (journal) New Hampshire, University of Newman, Peter New Partners for Smart Growth Newsweek New Urbanism movement New York City Housing Authority New York City MTA New Yorker, The New York Times New York Times Magazine Niagara Falls Nickels, Greg Nike
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walks through the park on the way to work in Atlanta. But he is the only one. ●Edward Glaeser, comments to the Congress for the New Urbanism, June 3, 2011. For reasons already discussed, New Yorkers born in 2010 are expected to live two years longer than the national average. ●Incidentally, monocultures
The New Class Conflict
by Joel Kotkin · 31 Aug 2014 · 362pp · 83,464 words
.40 “To put it in political speak,” notes urban thinker Aaron Renn, “the creative class doesn’t have much in the way of coattails.” The new urbanism is a new, and equally ineffective, form of “trickle-down economics.” Even Florida, the guru of the “creative class,” admits that the benefits of the
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; Leslee Goodman, “The Decline and Fall of the Suburban Empire,” interview with James Howard Kunstler, The Sun (magazine), October 2009, issue 406. 81. Irvin Dawid, “New Urbanism Examined by Time Magazine, Andrés Duany,” Planetizen, December 24, 2007, http://www.planetizen.com/node/29063; Brian Stone, “Land Use as Climate Change Mitigation,” Environmental
B Is for Bauhaus, Y Is for YouTube: Designing the Modern World From a to Z
by Deyan Sudjic · 17 Feb 2015 · 335pp · 111,405 words
Younger in Texas. And Krier has disciples everywhere from Florida to Romania. He is the father of what his American followers like to call the New Urbanism: of which the Prince of Wales’s development project at Poundbury outside Dorchester, is the prime British example. In argument, Krier takes no prisoners, and
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village hall in Florida designed by Krier and his work on the Italian town of Alexandria. Krier set out to provide a primer for the New Urbanism. ‘The lack of clarity in the vocabulary, the mixing-up of terms, and the extensive use of meaningless professional jargon stand in the way of
One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility
by Zack Furness and Zachary Mooradian Furness · 28 Mar 2010 · 532pp · 155,470 words
proto- situationist critique of urbanism; Henri lefebvre even referred to him as one of the primary instigators of the youth movement.54 in his essay “new Urbanism,” published in Provo (no. 9), Constant argues that the use of urban space as a conduit for automobiles destroys the possibilities for authentic, non-consumer
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he revived and recontextualized the situationist critique in the struggle for sustainable transportation. The potentially practical applications of Schimmelpenninck’s bicycle plan and Constant’s “new Urbanism” paradigm were nonetheless ruthlessly attacked by the situationists, who saw the provo as an ineffectual youth uprising lacking a revolutionary program: “There is a modern
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Voice, august 29, 2005. Kristin ross and Henri lefebvre, “lefebvre on the Situationists: an interview,” October 79 (1997): 71. Constant nieuwenhuys, “nieuw Urbanisme,” translated as “new Urbanism,” in BAMN, 2–6 (originally published in Provokatie, no. 9 [1966]). Situationist international with students at the University of Strasbourg, “On the poverty of Student
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O’Toole’s portland data, see Michael lewyn, “Debunking Cato: Why portland Works Better Than the analysis of its Chief neo-libertarian Critic,” Congress for New Urbanism, 2007, available at http://www.cnu.org/node/1532. randal O’Toole, “Mobility Counted Most in Fleeing new Orleans,” Seattle Times, September 14, 2005. chaPteR
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.org/press/1999/huffy_pr.html. lewyn, Michael. “Debunking Cato: Why portland Works Better Than the analysis of its Chief neo-libertarian Critic.” Congress for New Urbanism, 2007. available at http:// www.cnu.org/node/1532. liedke, Karl. “Destruction through Work: lodz Jews in the Büssing Truck Factory in Braunschweig, 1944–1945
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Bicyclists press release, april 29, 2008. “new Bicycle Gearshift and Man with Telephoto Eyes.” Modern Mechanix (May 1934): 59. nieuwenhuys, Constant. “nieuw Urbanisme,” trans. as “new Urbanism,” Provo, no. 9 (1966). in BAMN (By Any Means Necessary): Outlaw Manifestos and Ephemera, 1965–70, edited by peter Stansill and David Zane Mairowitz, 2
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: and automobility, 137; as cultural actors, 119; dependency of, on oil-related industries, 136–137; institutional biases of, 137; and safety, 139 newsom, Gavin, 96 “new Urbanism” (essay), 57–58 new woman and cycling, 21 new york City, 62, 80, 104, 245n74, 250n7; bicycle crackdown in, 2–3; bicycling in, 3, 38
Planet of Slums
by Mike Davis · 1 Mar 2006 · 232pp
to rehouse the poor, even if many of the projects, in retrospect, were drab adaptations of modernism.35 Although revolutionary Cuba's commitment to a "new urbanism" , was avant-garde, the ideal of a popular entitiement tojiousing wasjiot i unique in the contemporary Third World in the late 1950s and early ' 1960s
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
by Janette Sadik-Khan · 8 Mar 2016 · 441pp · 96,534 words
of guidance, some cities have found new inspiration in Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares: A Context Sensitive Approach, produced in 2010 by the Congress for the New Urbanism and the Institute of Transportation Engineers. The guide was a huge step forward simply by including real-world examples of street design principles that cities
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the Motor Age in the American City (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011), Kindle edition. hundred thousand cars . . . Embarcadero Freeway: San Francisco | Embarcadero Freeway, Congress for New Urbanism, accessed August 19, 2015, http://cnu.org/highways-boulevards/model-cities/embarcadero. 110,000 cars daily: Washington State Department of Transportation, “Viaduct History,” accessed August
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Lanes, 169 New Jersey Transit, 240 New Jersey Turnpike, 42 New Lots Avenue plaza, 106 Newman, Margaret, 37–38, 272 New street code, 1–5 New Urbanism, 21, 30, 84 New York (magazine), 174, 175, 291 New York Board of Education, xii New York City. See also specific streets and boroughs agenda
Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty First Century City
by Anna Minton · 24 Jun 2009 · 309pp · 96,434 words
Dropped a Morsel of My Daughter’s Sausage Roll and the Litter Police Fined Me £75’, Daily Mail, 25/4/08 13. Smith, Neil, ‘Which New Urbanism? New York City and the Revanchist 1990s’, in R. Beauregard & S. Body-Gendrot, eds, The Urban Moment: Cosmopolitan Essays on the Late-20th-Century City
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, Sage, 1999 14. Lambert, Bruce. ‘Ex-Outreach Workers Say They Assaulted Homeless’ 15. Smith, ‘Which New Urbanism?’ 16. Mitchell, Don & Staeheli, Lynn A., ‘Clean and Safe? Property Redevelopment, Public Space, and Homelessness in Downtown San Diego’, in Neil Smith & Setha Low, eds
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& Ludwig, ‘Broken Windows’ 41. Collins & Cattermole, Anti-Social Behaviour 42. Duffy, et al., Closing the Gaps 43. Harcourt, Illusion of Order 44. Smith, Neil, ‘Which New Urbanism? New York City and the Revanchist 1990s’, in R. Beauregard & S. Body-Gendrot, eds, The Urban Moment: Cosmopolitan Essays on the Late-20th Century City
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and Justice, Routledge, 2003 Sinclair, Iain, London Orbital, Granta, 2002 Smith, Neil & Low, Setha, eds, The Politics of Public Space, Routledge, 2005 Smith, Neil, ‘Which New Urbanism? New York City and the Revanchist 1990s’, in R. Beauregard & S. Body-Gendrot, eds, The Urban Moment: Cosmopolitan Essays on the Late-20th Century City
Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
by Anthony M. Townsend · 29 Sep 2013 · 464pp · 127,283 words
with car-obsessed America. With its town center and dense bands of multifamily housing, the Garden City looks less like exurban sprawl and more like New Urbanism, the design movement that swept across America in the 1990s with its emphasis on walkable neighborhoods. But many of Howard’s ideas, such as relegating
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smart city technology will be needed. Cross-Train Designers Inspired by Patrick Geddes’s view of the region as an integrated human and natural system, New Urbanism pioneer Andres Duany developed the notion of the “urban transect” in the 1990s. A cross-sectional diagram, the transect describes the zones of ever-greater
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.S., 67, 255 Negroponte, Nicholas, 177 Neighbornode, 154 New America Foundation, Open Technology Institute of, 293 New Delhi, urban design for, 7 Newsom, Gavin, 227 New Urbanism, 95, 302–3 New York, N.Y., 51, 58, 205–7, 306–7, 314 BigApps contest of, 201–3 Broadband Advisory Committee in, 311 confusing
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are Thekeys to Sustainability
by David Owen · 16 Sep 2009 · 313pp · 92,907 words
Pushkarev’s critical transit threshold of seven dwellings per acre—and it exceeds the density of many developments that have been promoted as examples of New Urbanism, or Smart Growth—yet only a microscopic percentage of Angelenos travel to work in anything but a car, and, largely because of the separation of
Hollow City
by Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg · 1 Jan 2001
District, 1999, fication threatens to yank out some of the strands ing urbanism itself Perhaps the function like suburbs as those them over. In the new urbanism will altogether, diminish- result in old cities that who were suburbia's blandly privileged take postwar years, the white middle class fled cities, which created
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love in San Francisco and is remote to the afford those hotel cities and money. Or The new economy is as economy can what new New Urbanism in which a day, village it suddenly lands being cities love, we took city lost. across the money and economy as a tourthe campesinos in
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documentary on what the new tech- doing to San Francisco's public spaces and calling themselves the Mission calling for class war. nizes a make New Urbanism, whereby suburbs are designed to resemble about the said threaten to life all bland and inert as suburbia, to erase place. as 29 Lower East
City on the Verge
by Mark Pendergrast · 5 May 2017 · 425pp · 117,334 words
gone up in value, as more people move into the corridor. Despite many unanticipated setbacks, Atlanta is already realizing this vision straight out of the “new urbanism” playbook.* The NuGrape building, headquarters for the soda pop company from 1937 through 1971, has indeed been converted into high-ceilinged lofts, and residents really
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senses of the word. It is a troubled, dynamic, appealing, contradictory city, and the BeltLine project has the potential to envelope it with a livable new urbanism where people can walk and bike, enjoy parks, and get around on streetcars (or bus rapid transit) and rapid transit. The BeltLine will link to
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make a lot of plans, but they seldom get implemented.” In 2001 she took a job at a small, innovative Atlanta architectural firm focusing on new urbanism projects. Of course, she lent her full support to Gravel and Woolard’s BeltLine project. “Thank God they resurrected the idea. I felt like I
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of a Southern gothic novel, Wayne Mason saw himself as the white knight of the BeltLine, charging in to lead a sustainable, profitable venture in new urbanism. Instead, he ended up watching the project from the sidelines as his overextended real estate empire crumbled. Mortgage Fraud in 30310 The economic collapse could
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, hip, and rich,” Warbington observed. The annual Suwanee Fest in late September attracts some 40,000 people to the park. This “town center” emulation of new urbanism, funded in part by Livable Centers Initiative planning grants from the Atlanta Regional Commission, became popular in many suburban cities of metro Atlanta. The live
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about 100 homes out of a planned 1,200. The recession had slowed things down a bit, but his vision for a vibrant type of new urbanism in the country was already coming to fruition. As I was leaving, I heard another visitor exclaim, “I feel like I’m in Europe!” When
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. That’s why Avalon, the upscale mixed-use development in Alpharetta in North Fulton County, opened in 2014 as an instant success—an example of new urbanism in the suburbs. But Avalon has a problem, as its developer, Mark Toro of North American Properties, acknowledged. It lies eleven miles from the nearest
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II Princess Wilson Valarie Wilson Tracy Woodard Cathy Woolard Alyssa Wright Evelyn Wynn-Dixon Fred Yalouris Ivory Lee Young Mtamanika Youngblood Sam Zamarripa Pamela Zhang * “New urbanism,” a term that dates from the 1980s, is actually not so new, since it seeks to recapture positive elements of preautomobile city life, promoting walkability
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Mason property and, 58, 94 Westside Trail, 157–158, 280 Street-to-Home program, 112 Studioplex, 15, 182, 252 suburbs automobile transport and, 41–43 new urbanism in, 269 streetcar, 34–38 See also specific locations subway system, 44 Summerhill neighborhood, 71, 195, 208, 219 sustainability, 144–145 Sutherland, Kit and Stuart
The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy
by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley · 10 Jun 2013
. Environmental Protection Agency, “Rocky Mountain Arsenal,” 2013 (www.epa.gov/region8/super fund/co/rkymtnarsenal/). The airport site itself was later converted into a popular New Urbanism–style residential development. The developers did have to invest in cleaning up the former airport land, which was polluted by jet fuel and other contaminants
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.htm#me). 50. See Oregon Metro, “Urban Growth Boundary,” 2013 (www.oregonmetro. gov/index.cfm/go/by.web/id=277). 51. See Congress for the New Urbanism, “Portland’s Harbor Drive,” 2011 (www.cnu.org/highways/portland). 52. Istrate and Marchio, “Export Nation 2012”; “Greater Portland Export Plan: Metro Export Initiative” (Brookings
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
by Charles Montgomery · 12 Nov 2013 · 432pp · 124,635 words
architects and planners came together to wage war against the rules and practices that had produced sprawl. They called their movement the Congress for the New Urbanism—the name a cheeky reference and reaction to the CIAM—Congrès Internationaux d’architecture moderne—the fraternity formed by Le Corbusier and other European modernists
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walkable street networks, with transit and attractive public spaces, all framed by buildings that responded to the local culture and climate. The Congress for the New Urbanism has now grown into a powerful movement with thousands of members. Their ideas, which incorporate much of what Jane Jacobs and Christopher Alexander and Jan
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the government owned factories seven days a week.” Such imaginative interpretations are actually pretty standard among Tea Party urbanists. In city after city, opponents to New Urbanism and “smart growth” claim that local planners are part of an international conspiracy to force everyone to abandon their cars, give up their private property
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.com/ContentManagement/pressrelease.aspx?ChannelID=9&ItemID=4119&accnt=64847 (accessed January 3, 2011). U.S. construction in the last three decades: Dunham-Jones, Ellen, “New Urbanism’s Subversive Marketing,” in Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, ed. Andrew Blauvelt (Minneapolis: Walker Arts Center, 2008). “edge cities”: Garreau, Joel, Edge City: Life on
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Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Geneva: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2008). The travel time: Green, Charles, Health Plenary Address, Congress for New Urbanism 18, Atlanta, May 20, 2010. This we know: Thomas, C., et al., “Extinction Risk from Climate Change,” Nature, 2004: 145–48. alarmed the insurance industry
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: How the Federal Regulatory System Has Driven Unsustainable Growth,” Tennessee Law Review, Tennessee Law Review Association, spring 2008. Commercial Center Revitalization Act: Congress for the New Urbanism, “Sprawl Retrofit,” www.cnu.org/sprawlretrofit (accessed March 3, 2012); South Carolina General Assembly, Reps. Smith, J. E., Brady, Agnew, R. L. Brown, and Whipper
Mysteries of the Mall: And Other Essays
by Witold Rybczynski · 7 Sep 2015 · 342pp · 90,734 words
the winning team is representative of a current approach to urban design that has been termed neo-traditional but whose adherents prefer to call it New Urbanism. New Urbanism represents a turning away from the principles that have characterized American urban design since the 1950s and a rediscovery of the virtues of traditional, gridded
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Solomon, and Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk have been predominantly suburban and aimed at an upper-middle-class clientele, but the commercial successes of New Urbanism are evidence of its broad appeal to consumers and developers alike. It seems appropriate that such a mainstream, pragmatic approach should be applied to the
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remedial design of public housing. An appealing feature of New Urbanism is architectural design whose flavor is regional rather than international. In Nelson, Faulkner, and Carcoana’s proposal, moreover, the traditional design approach means that public
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New Delhi, Viceroy’s House in New England towns, Tocqueville on Newman, Oscar Newman, Paul New Mexico, houses in New Orleans, La. Newport, R.I. New Urbanism New York, N.Y. Central Park in, see Central Park Commissioners’ Plan of 1811 in Grand Army Plaza in Le Corbusier in Prospect Park in
Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car
by Anthony M. Townsend · 15 Jun 2020 · 362pp · 97,288 words
first glance, automation looks like a force multiplier for transit-oriented development. Prominent urban planners like Peter Calthorpe, a founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism, have embraced the synergy of software trains and compact neighborhoods. It’s easy to imagine driverless shuttles playing a role in linking satellite neighborhoods designed
Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing
by John Boughton · 14 May 2018 · 325pp · 89,374 words
strategy. Those Byzantine structures did somehow combine to carry out one of the country’s most radical regeneration transformations. In Hulme, ‘new realism’ met the ‘new urbanism’ – the latter an attempt to ‘create a new neighbourhood with the “feel” of a more traditional urban community’.8 The Hulme Crescents went, finally demolished
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
by Henry Grabar · 8 May 2023 · 413pp · 115,274 words
wanted to live. Eric Jacobsen, a pastor in Tacoma, Washington, had developed a theory of an “embedded church” that was rooted in the concepts of New Urbanism, the school of antisprawl architecture. An embedded church, Jacobsen said, should be in a neighborhood with homes and businesses. It should have a direct connection
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improvements. The “yes in my backyard” (YIMBY) prohousing activists. The small-city restorationists of the Strong Towns movement. Architects who subscribed to the Congress for New Urbanism, the movement for traditional town building founded by Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Andres Duany, who with Jeff Speck called parking minimums the “single greatest killer
How to Kill a City: The Real Story of Gentrification
by Peter Moskowitz · 7 Mar 2017 · 288pp · 83,690 words
story, and so Detroit, at least this narrow part of it, is the new place urban planners point to as a success. The Congress for New Urbanism held its 2016 conference in Detroit. In addition to the usual hotel-based workshops, attendees could sign up for tours of Detroit’s revitalized neighborhoods
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: Andres Viglucci, “Miami Now Winter Home to ‘Creative-Class’ Thinker Richard Florida,” Miami Herald, August 19, 2012. The Congress for New Urbanism held its 2016 conference: 24th Annual Congress for the New Urbanism, June 8–11, 2016, Detroit, Michigan, www.cnu.org/cnu24/schedule. “One problematic consequence [of the rise of the creative class
City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age
by P. D. Smith · 19 Jun 2012
& Row, 1981), 481. 2. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1926; repr. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967), 74–5. 3. Gilles Ivain [Ivan Chtcheglov], ‘Formulary for a New Urbanism’, Internationale Situationniste, No. 1 (June 1958), 15–20 (written 1953), cited from Tom McDonough, ed., The Situationists and the City (London: Verso, 2009), 33. 4
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Lindsay, ‘Cisco’s Big Bet on New Songdo: Creating Cities From Scratch’, Fast Company (1 February 2010) <http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/142/the-new-new-urbanism.html> 11. ‘NASA Research Finds 2010 Tied for Warmest Year on Record’: <http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2010-warmest-year.html> 12. See
The Edifice Complex: How the Rich and Powerful--And Their Architects--Shape the World
by Deyan Sudjic · 27 Nov 2006 · 441pp · 135,176 words
of courage to all of us, not least Albert Speer. Leon Krier, the architect best known for his role in planning Seaside, the outpost of New Urbanism on the Florida panhandle, and the Prince of Wales’s village of Poundbury, has been the most active voice in attempting to rehabilitate Speer. Why
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
by Edward L. Glaeser · 1 Jan 2011 · 598pp · 140,612 words
has given a great boost to Leon Krier, Poundbury’s planner, who is also one of the intellectual forces behind the New Urbanist movement. The New Urbanism “stand[s] for the restoration of existing urban centers and towns within coherent metropolitan regions, the reconfiguration of sprawling suburbs into communities of real neighborhoods
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Model Village Grows Up Gracefully.” 214 forces behind the New Urbanist movement: Watson et al., Learning from Poundbury, 8. 214 New Urbanism “stand[s] for . . . our built legacy”: Charter of the New Urbanism, www.cnu.org/charter. 214 more conservationist than the New Urbanist communities of America: Compare the Web site of Poundbury, www
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Labor Relations Act (1935) Native Son (Wright) neighborhood preservation, see preservation Netherlands Nevins, Allan New Brighton New Deal New Orleans Hurricane Katrina in poor in New Urbanism New York City African Americans in age statistics in Bloomberg as mayor of building construction in Central Park commuting in crime in death rates in
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
by James C. Scott · 8 Feb 1999 · 607pp · 185,487 words
, precisely, was the new capital intended to negate? A large part of the answer can be inferred from Le Corbusier's second principle of the new urbanism: "the death of the street." Brasilia was designed to eliminate the street and the square as places for public life. Although the elimination of local
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
by Charles L. Marohn, Jr. · 24 Sep 2019 · 242pp · 71,943 words
my own beliefs to wander. In 2015, I was invited to speak on a panel titled “Bipartisan Placemaking: Reaching Conservatives” at the Congress for the New Urbanism in Dallas. I thought about my remarks and came up with this formulation that fits most closely with my view of the world: At the
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buildings, 20–23 Complicated buildings, 20–23 Complicated systems, 11–14 Confirmation bias, 69, 74, 183–186 Conflicts, dealing with, 206–212 Congress for the New Urbanism, 210 Congressional Budget Office (CBO), 78–80 Constraints: and economic stability, 93–96 and gold standard, 90 growth as, 100 prudent, for investments, 164–168
If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
by Benjamin R. Barber · 5 Nov 2013 · 501pp · 145,943 words
. 17. There are truly new cities: not just new towns like Celebration, Florida, built by Disney, or planned and “garden cities” growing out of the new urbanism movement such as Radburn, New Jersey, before World War II, or Greenbelt, Maryland, after, but cities like Las Vegas that, as Robert Venturi quips, “was
World Cities and Nation States
by Greg Clark and Tim Moonen · 19 Dec 2016
., Solinger, D.J. and Topik, S. (eds) (1999). States and Sovereignty in the Global Economy. London: Routledge, pp. 7–8. Smith, N. (2002). New globalism, new urbanism: Gentrification as global urban strategy. Antipode, 34(3): 434. Taylor, P. (1995). World Cities and territorial states: The rise of and fall of their mutuality
Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
by John Markoff · 22 Mar 2022 · 573pp · 142,376 words
live in a commune and produce light shows for several years. He studied architecture and became an urban planner internationally known for the concept of New Urbanism, walkable communities, while he lived as Brand’s neighbor on a houseboat in Sausalito a decade later. Until then, at rock shows put on in
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the boat seaworthy again. The South 40 Dock became the best example of what Brand’s friend and neighbor Peter Calthorpe would describe as the “new urbanism.” Calthorpe was inspired in part by living in the houseboat community to realize that “walkability”—the notion that all of the resources a resident might
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Learn found a much more receptive audience among urban planners than architects. It appeared just a year after the formation of the Congress for the New Urbanism, founded by a group of progressive urban planners, including Brand’s friend Peter Calthorpe. The book sparked a discussion that led to the idea of
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, 221, 236–37 New Jersey Institute of Technology, 240 New Left, 143, 225 SB’s antipathy for, 4, 142, 145, 341, 347 Newton, Huey, 229 New Urbanism, 129, 246, 307 New Yorker, 190, 219, 311 New York Times, 259, 265, 280, 314, 341–42 SB profile in, 344–45 New York Times
The Making of a World City: London 1991 to 2021
by Greg Clark · 31 Dec 2014
in the vision and practices of London’s property industry. Since 2007, the specifically environmental elements of sustainability have gained credence as part of a new urbanism which depends on principles of highdensity, urban work–live villages and pedestrian and cycle spaces. The sustainability ambition is fuelled by ongoing investment in London
Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
by Richard Florida · 28 Jun 2009 · 325pp · 73,035 words
of Schumpeter, Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction, Belknap, 2007. 5 Bill Steigerwald, “City Views: Urban Studies Legend Jane Jacobs on Gentrification, the New Urbanism, and Her Legacy,” Reason, June 2001. 6 See the discussion of Jacobs’s ideas in David Ellerman, “Jane Jacobs on Development,” Oxford Development Studies, December
The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America
by Jon C. Teaford · 1 Jan 2006 · 395pp · 115,753 words
unnecessary car trips and commutes.”33 The Portland experience was also welcome news to an emerging planning movement known as the New Urbanism. Led by architects Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, New Urbanism was the planning arm of the antisprawl crusade, dedicated to creating traditional-style neighborhoods with smaller lots, narrower streets, front
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the neighborhoods of the pre-1945 era before Levittown, Southdale Center, McDonalds, and the interstate highway system had corrupted American life. In their manifesto on New Urbanism, Duany and Plater-Zyberk urged their followers to remember the refrain: “No more housing subdivisions! No more shopping centers! No more office parks! No more
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. new towns: Columbia, Md.; Ganada, N.Y.; Irvine, Calif.; Jonathan, Minn.; Maumelle, Ark.; Newfields, Ohio; Park Forest South, Ill.; Reston, Va.; Shenandoah, Ga.; Woodlands, Tex. new urbanism New York, N.Y.; abandoned property in; African American districts of; African American employment in; African American population of; Asian Americans in; big-box stores
Stacy Mitchell
by Big-Box Swindle The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses (2006)
chairs.”37 Colossal in both their physical and psychological impact, dead malls have attracted the most attention. A 2001 study by the Congress for the New Urbanism and PricewaterhouseCoopers conservatively estimated that 140 malls are either dead or nearly so, and an additional 250 are vulnerable to collapse. This represents one in
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o‰cials, and local entrepreneurs in other cities. The director of CoolTown Studios and cofounder of the National Town Builders Association, a trade group of new urbanism developers, Takemoto points with frustration to the many heavily subsidized downtown redevelopment projects, such as Louisville’s Fourth Street Live and Kansas City’s Power
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Hangouts at the Heart of Community, 2nd ed. (New York: Marlowe & Company, 1999). 29. Ibid., 21–85; 70. 30. Hollie Lund, “Testing the Claims of New Urbanism: Local Access, Pedestrian Travel, and Neighboring Behaviors,” Journal of the American Planning Association, Sept. 22, 2003, 414–29. 31. Putnam, Bowling Alone, 213–14. 32
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Handbook, 3rd ed. (Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute, 1999); Seth Harry, Seth Harry & Associates, interview, Mar. 29, 2005. 17. Harry interview; Congress for the New Urbanism, Council Report VI on Retail, published by The Town Paper and the Knight Program in Community Building, Feb. 2004; New Urban Post VIII: A Compilation
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of Online Discussions about the New Urbanism, published by the Knight Program in Community Building, Feb. 2004. 18. Harry interview; Council Report VI on Retail; New Urban Post VIII. 19. Harry interview
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Investments, “Emerging Trends in Real Estate,” 2002 and 2003; Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Urban Land Institute, “Emerging Trends in Real Estate,” 2004. 38. Congress for the New Urbanism and Pricewaterhouse Coopers, “Greyfield Regional Mall Study,” January 2001; Robert Antall, interview, Feb. 8, 2005. 39. Chris Kenton, “To Save a Town, Why Did They
USA Travel Guide
by Lonely, Planet
most intriguing and surreal is the little village of Seaside (www.seasidefl.com) , a Necco Wafer–colored town that was hailed as a model of New Urbanism in the 1980s. Seaside is such an idealized vision that, unaltered, it formed the setting for the 1998 film The Truman Show, about a man
Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet
by Roger Scruton · 30 Apr 2014 · 426pp · 118,913 words
like the National Family Farm Coalition and the Food Family Farming Foundation.341 In reaction to the devastation of the cities there has arisen the New Urbanism movement I discussed earlier, itself anticipated by the seminal Country Club House development of J. C. Nichols in Kansas City. In 1912, shortly after the
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centripetal and centrifugal forces. Howard Kunstler’s response to Bruegmann is well worth reading, and appears in Salmagundi, 152, Fall 2006. 275 The Congress for New Urbanism is an American voluntary association, whose current president is John Norquist, and which is beginning to recruit a following among architects, planners and schools of
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feedback, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10 Nelson, Richard R., ref1 Němcová, Božena, ref1 Neo-liberalism, ref1, ref2 New Republic, ref1 New Urbanism, ref1, ref2 New Zealand, ref1 NGOs, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11 Nichols J. C., ref1 Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, ref1
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
by Conor Dougherty · 18 Feb 2020 · 331pp · 95,582 words
a handful of his staff would later become recognized as early leaders of the environmentally friendly, mass-transit-oriented design movement that became known as new urbanism. The administration tried to ratchet that philosophy further up after Proposition 13, and Brown argued that the sprawl of his father’s California, which the
Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing
by Andrew Ross · 25 Oct 2021 · 301pp · 90,276 words
Negrin, Metin NeoCity Ñeta Association Netflix Netherlands Nevada New 21st Century Public Housing Vision New England “new homeless” See also homeless New Jersey New Mexico New Urbanism New York New York City New Yorker Ninth Circuit Ninth Congressional District “nontransient occupancy” nonurban housing crisis See also housing North Carolina Northeast District Northeast
Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road
by Matthew B. Crawford · 8 Jun 2020 · 386pp · 113,709 words
is closely connected to the transformation of American cities in ways that Jacobs and many others (including myself) regret; this complaint is prominent in the “new urbanism.” But on Jacobs’s account, this connection isn’t entirely a causal one; “we blame automobiles for too much.” She finds a prior cause of
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disturbed by automobiles, 35–36 social life of, 69–70 zoning laws, 71 Nest thermostat, 305 Netherlands, 249 New Deal, 38 New Nationalism, 38, 138 new urbanism, 35–36 Niantic Labs, 308 Nicholson, Jack, 25 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 12, 169, 196–197 Noë, Alva, 61 Norman, Don, 98 Norton, Peter D., 20 NSU
Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life
by Richard Beck · 2 Sep 2024 · 715pp · 212,449 words
it harder to gather outside the home. This is an environment in which the public can barely function at all. The twenty-first century saw “new urbanism,” with its goals of revitalized cities centered on mixed use, walking, and public transportation, become a kind of gospel among urban planners and liberal politicians
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. But under the unlucky star of the terrorist threat, the results have frequently reproduced the forms of new urbanism without any of their content, resulting in parks and plazas that gleam appealingly from a distance but are unpleasant, difficult, or impossible for the public
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
by Stewart Brand · 15 Mar 2009 · 422pp · 113,525 words
the world’s museums and historic sites; in the biological paintings of Isabella Kirkland; and in any town or city reshaped by what is called New Urbanism. That last item is my example. • In 1983, architect Peter Calthorpe gave up on San Francisco, where he had tried and failed to organize neighborhood
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and voices and cats. It was a community, Calthorpe decided, because it was walkable. Building on that insight, Calthorpe became one of the founders of New Urbanism, along with Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and others. In 1985 he introduced the concept of walkability in “Cities Redefined,” an article in the Whole
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Earth Review. Since then, New Urbanism has become the dominant force in city planning, promoting high density, mixed use, walkability, mass transit, eclectic design, and regionalism. It drew one of its
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urbanization and Chinese Academy of Forestry Chipchase, Jan Chu, Steven Church, George cities agriculture and ecological footprint of economic growth and infrastructure of innovation and New Urbanism and population growth and slums and, see slums warfare and see also urbanization Citizendium clathrates Clean Air Act (1970) Clean and Safe Energy Coalition Clean
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) Nature Conservancy Nature by Design (Higgs) negative feedback Netherlands Neuwirth, Robert Nevada, nuclear waste issue and New Mexico New Science of Metagenomics, The New Scientist New Urbanism New Yorker New York Times New Zealand Next Four Billion, The (Hammond et al.) Night Watch (Pratchett) Nilsen, Richard nitrous oxide nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) North
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
by Sharon Zukin · 1 Dec 2009 · 415pp · 119,277 words
. 370; Loretta Lees, “Super-gentrification: The Case of Brooklyn Heights, New York City,” Urban Studies 40, no. 12 (2003): 2487–509; Neil Smith, “New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy,” Antipode 34, no. 3 (2002): 440. 10. Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City
Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World
by Sara C. Bronin · 30 Sep 2024 · 230pp · 74,949 words
in 1995, and from Seaside, in the Florida Panhandle, where the first American form-based code was written in 1982 by the founders of the “New Urbanism” planning movement. Nostalgic for the “traditional” neighborhoods of a century and more ago, New Urbanists love porches, pitched roofs, sidewalks, a set menu of building
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New Haven, CT, 178 New Jersey, 65, 75, 146 New Orleans, 57, 68 Newport, a subdivision in Crosby, 19–20, 28 New Rochelle, NY, 191 New Urbanism, 153 New York City, 6, 7, 42, 67, 68, 76, 191 New York state, 7 Levittown, 92 Long Island, 92 New Rochelle, 191 See also
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Texas, 56 “upzoning,” 26 “urban farms,” 112–15, 170 Urban Institute, 79 urban planning, 1–11, 166–73 in ancient Greece and Rome, 6, 172 New Urbanism, 153 See also governance; streets and roads; zoning “urban renewal,” 137, 369 Urban Street Design Guide, 149 “use tables,” 20, 171 utilitas, venustas, and firmitas
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
by Brian Goldstone · 25 Mar 2025 · 512pp · 153,059 words
other cities where such engineered renewal was underway, Atlanta’s development boom was presented as advantageous for everyone. Under the guise of “smart growth” and “New Urbanism,” the promise of a more beautiful, environmentally sustainable city—with abundant jobs, improved schools, and upgraded infrastructure—was sold to new and old residents alike
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Assistance Corporation of America (NACA), 312–16 Neighborhood Planning Unit (NPU), 265 neoliberalism, 354 New Deal, 55–56 New Life, 257 New Republic, The, xvi New Urbanism, xix New Year’s Eve, 311 New York City, xvii, 10, 267 New York Times, 281, 355, 356 Nicholas House, 184–88, 193, 209–10
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
by Anna Wiener · 14 Jan 2020 · 237pp · 74,109 words
a party, I met a man who leaned in and told me, with warm breath, that he was trying to get involved with an exciting new urbanism project. His T-shirt was creased geometrically, as if he’d had it same-day delivered and only unfolded it an hour ago: artful dishevelment
Urban Transport Without the Hot Air, Volume 1
by Steve Melia · 351pp · 91,133 words
brought its influence to Britain through organizations like the Prince’s Foundation. The aims of the New Urbanists are well meaning. The charter of the New Urbanism calls for neighbourhoods which are “compact, pedestrian friendly and mixed-use”212 (although New Urbanist developments on both sides of the Atlantic have generally failed
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and cycle traffic in Dutch urban networks’. European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research. 13 (3), pp. 221-38. 212 Congress for the New Urbanism (2001) Charter for the new urbanism. On: www.cnu.org/charter 213 See for example: DfT (2005) ‘Home zones: Challenging the future of our streets’. Department for Transport: London
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
by David Harvey · 3 Apr 2012 · 206pp · 9,776 words
cap puccino." Even the incoherent, bland, and monotonous suburban tract development that continues to dominate in many areas, now gets its anti dote in a "new urbanism" movement that touts the sale of community and a boutique lifestyle as a developer product to fulfill urban dreams. This is a world in which
Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories About the Great Good Places at the Heart of Our Communities
by Ray Oldenburg · 30 Nov 2001 · 215pp · 71,155 words
improved. Homes are better equipped, more comfortable, and more entertaining than ever before. This domestic retreat presents a challenge to Traditional Town Planning or the New Urbanism, which purports to restore community and public life by offering a proven alternative to the anti-community tract housing that spread like a plague after
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World War II. The New Urbanism incorporates principles of architecture and layout similar to those developed in the 1920s when we knew how to build communities and proceeded accordingly. But is
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now mostly empty because of elevators and other code requirements. Recently, we have seen a reversal of these trends in what has been labeled the New Urbanism movement. I applaud these changes. I’m more interested in preserving Traverse City as a viable living space where people interact with neighbors and friends
The City on the Thames
by Simon Jenkins · 31 Aug 2020
door. Similar cliffs rose Haussmann-like along Victoria Street, Buckingham Palace Road, Knightsbridge, Marylebone Road, Maida Vale and St John’s Wood. Tenants of this new urbanism were desperate not to be seen as second best. One critic stressed that living in flats per se ‘does not stamp them as failures’, while
Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy
by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel · 4 Sep 2013 · 202pp · 59,883 words
freestanding single-family homes surrounded by lawns, fences and chirping birds, this emerging generation is massively opting for less pastoral—and more stimulating—urban settings. New Urbanism is changing American demographic trends. Multiple reports, including those from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Brookings Institution, see multiyear trends where cities are
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—even when local—is becoming mobile device-centric. They are encouraging and adopting new services that allow local merchants to deliver goods to urban doors. New Urbanism is not only taking hold in such cultural centers as New York and San Francisco, but also in previously forsaken places like Pittsburgh, Detroit and
Emergence
by Steven Johnson · 329pp · 88,954 words
as consequences of colony size.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 95 (1998): 8665–69. Katz, Peter. The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community. New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.: McGraw-Hill, 1994. Kauffman, Stuart. At Home in the Universe: The Search
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
by Geoffrey West · 15 May 2017 · 578pp · 168,350 words
in the design of entire cities, nor in urban development beyond variations on the garden city theme. However, in the 1980s a movement called the New Urbanism arose that was an attempt to combat some of the issues inherent in an automobile and steel and concrete–dominated society where people become alienated
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of Cities, The (Batty), 294–95 Newton, Isaac, 37, 38, 63, 71, 107–8, 181, 339, 428 New Towns in the United Kingdom, 263–65 New Urbanism, 259–60 New York City, 10, 251, 278, 358 economic diversity, 366–68, 367 growth curve, 377, 418–19, 419 infrastructure networks, 252 Jacobs and
Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
by Douglas Rushkoff · 7 Sep 2022 · 205pp · 61,903 words
appreciation for bottom-up natural urban development as an endorsement of the free market. Entirely omitting her call for slow, natural growth of urban districts, new urbanism now amounts to little more than a euphemism for totally planned shopping malls with apartments over the stores. Our digitally inflected world-builders take this
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hated Robert Moses’s : Jane Jacobs, Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics (New York: Random House, 1992). 123 new urbanism now amounts to : Rushkoff, Life Inc.: How Corporatism Conquered the World, and How We Can Take It Back (New York: Random House, 2009), 74–83
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
by Kurt Andersen · 4 Sep 2017 · 522pp · 162,310 words
been before. Celebration is the real town that Disney built at the south end of Disney World in the 1990s. It’s an example of New Urbanism, the movement among architects and planners, beginning in the 1980s, that considers the development of cities and suburbs since World War II disastrously misguided. America
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because they’re inauthentically nostalgic. Most New Urbanists want new houses and neighborhoods to be more accurate simulations of houses and neighborhoods from the past. New Urbanism was upscale Disneyfication before the people running Disney called themselves New Urbanists. Celebration is a self-conscious reproduction of some fictional but ideal American town
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
by Adam Greenfield · 29 May 2017 · 410pp · 119,823 words
territory falls squarely into their core area of expertise. Information is the substance of the new mobility, as it is of the new healthcare, the new urbanism, the new warfare and so on, and this affords the enterprise that has mastered information-work a near-infinite series of pivots. No longer a
Eastern USA
by Lonely Planet
most intriguing and surreal is the little village of Seaside (www.seasidefl.com), a Necco Wafer–colored town that was hailed as a model of New Urbanism in the 1980s. Seaside is such an idealized vision that, unaltered, it formed the setting for the 1998 film The Truman Show, about a man
The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism
by David Harvey · 1 Jan 2010 · 369pp · 94,588 words
. Even the incoherent, bland and monotonous suburban tract development that continues to dominate in many parts of the world now gets its antidote through a ‘new urbanism’ movement that touts the sale of community (supposedly intimate and secure as well as often gated) and a supposedly ‘sustainable’ boutique lifestyle as a developer
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, 233, 237, 243, 255 Nepal: communist rule in 226 Nevada, foreclosure wave in 1 New Deal 71 ‘new economy’ (1990s) 97 New Labour 45, 255 ‘new urbanism’ movement 175 New York City 11 September 2001 attacks 41 fiscal crisis (1975) 10, 172, 261 investment banks 19, 28 New York metropolitan region 169
Fantasyland
by Kurt Andersen · 5 Sep 2017
been before. Celebration is the real town that Disney built at the south end of Disney World in the 1990s. It’s an example of New Urbanism, the movement among architects and planners, beginning in the 1980s, that considers the development of cities and suburbs since World War II disastrously misguided. America
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because they’re inauthentically nostalgic. Most New Urbanists want new houses and neighborhoods to be more accurate simulations of houses and neighborhoods from the past. New Urbanism was upscale Disneyfication before the people running Disney called themselves New Urbanists. Celebration is a self-conscious reproduction of some fictional but ideal American town
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure
by Tim Harford · 1 Jun 2011 · 459pp · 103,153 words
Lindsay, ‘Cisco’s big bet on New Songdo: creating cities from scratch’, Fast Company, 1 February 2010, http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/142/the-new-new-urbanism.html 5 Climate change or: Changing the rules for success 154 ‘I think we’re going to find’: Prince Charles, interview with the BBC, October
You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall
by Colin Ellard · 6 Jul 2009 · 293pp · 97,431 words
of the idea that city spaces evoke feelings as surely as mixtures of chemicals produce drug effects was Ivan Chtcheglov. In his “Formulary for a New Urbanism,” Chtcheglov wrote that cities were inhabited by ghosts created by combinations of “shifting angles” and “receding perspectives” that “allow us to glimpse original conceptions of
Rendezvous With Oblivion: Reports From a Sinking Society
by Thomas Frank · 18 Jun 2018 · 182pp · 55,234 words
came later. The man who bears the most responsibility for popularizing the term seems to have been Duany, the well-known architect and proponent of “New Urbanism.” A Florida newspaper quoted Duany using the term in 1990, and he could be found using it himself in an article he co-wrote for
Lonely Planet Washington, Oregon & the Pacific Northwest
by Lonely Planet · 1,006pp · 243,928 words
is one of the top ‘green building’ cities in the country, and Portland has nudged its carbon emissions to 21% below its 2000 levels. The ‘New Urbanism’ or ‘Urban Village’ concepts are also popular in the Pacific Northwest, emphasizing compact, walkable communities that cut down the need to drive everywhere for work
USA's Best Trips
by Sara Benson · 23 May 2010 · 941pp · 237,152 words
, following coastal highways that move as slowly as molasses pours. Take a breather in almost too picturesque Seaside. This planned community, a 1980s laboratory for New Urbanism, may feel strangely like a movie set. That’s because it was – remember The Truman Show? Airstream trailers parked by the all-American town square
Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives
by Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez · 5 Jan 2010 · 269pp · 104,430 words
and Germany,” American Journal of Public Health, 2004, 93 (9): 1509–16. Ann Forsyth, Reforming Suburbia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005); Peter Katz, The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community (New York: McGraw-Hill Professional, 1994). Jeff Gearhart, Hans Posselt, Claudette Juska, and Charles Griffith, The Consumer Guide to Toxic
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
by Jeff Goodell · 23 Oct 2017 · 292pp · 92,588 words
near term. As recently as 2010, when the county finalized a new zoning plan called Miami 21, which was supposed to celebrate the values of New Urbanism and prepare Miami for the twenty-first century, sea-level rise wasn’t even mentioned. As one Miami-Dade County commissioner told me, “People thought
The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
by Ray Oldenburg · 17 Aug 1999
we come to the necessary matter of rewriting the building and zoning codes, this book should be one of the primers. Peter Katz’s The New Urbanism details and illustrates two dozen developments and redevelopments. It represents our architects’ best attempts at recreating community. A closing essay (an Afterword) by Vince Scully
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
by Eric Klinenberg · 10 Sep 2018 · 281pp · 83,505 words
democracy takes root. But cultural values, and exhortations to change them, are not the only influences on our everyday social routines. As proponents of the New Urbanism movement have demonstrated, people with the same interest in social connection, community building, and civic participation have varying opportunities to achieve those things depending on
Come and Take It: The Gun Printer's Guide to Thinking Free
by Cody Wilson · 10 Oct 2016 · 246pp · 70,404 words
Herod’s Temple façade. Louisiana Street’s own Holy of Holies, just around the corner from the governor’s mansion. Lauren enjoyed mixed-income neighborhoods, new urbanism, community gardening, and meeting for lunch at the Clinton Library. In short, she was a beautiful planner, the kind NATO sends to Eastern Europe. I
Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider
by Weimar Gay · 31 Dec 2001
housing since 1945 as a failure, not just a failure of design but a failure of the spirit, too. Kunstler, at the 1999 Congress of New Urbanism, dismissed postwar suburbs as “the place where evil dwells.” That’s been reflected in the critical response to Holy Land, some of which has been
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
by David Brooks · 1 Jan 2000 · 142pp · 18,753 words
next person will have a penny handy if it’s needed. Or it can be as pervasive as residential projects along the lines of the New Urbanism movement, which are designed to make sure there are eyes on the street, people watching out for each other and subtly upholding community standards of
The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead
by David Callahan · 1 Jan 2004 · 452pp · 110,488 words
P. Fiorina, eds., Civic Engagement in American Democracy (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution/The Russell Sage Foundation, 1999). [back] 10. This section on sprawl and new urbanism draws heavily from David Callahan and Stephen Heintz, eds., Quality of Life 2000: The New Politics of Work and Community (New York: Demos, 2002), 77
How Cycling Can Save the World
by Peter Walker · 3 Apr 2017 · 231pp · 69,673 words
to take decisions, year after year.” He adds: “I think we were in many ways probably twenty years ahead of our time. What you call new urbanism—it was talked about in most places in the 1990s, but we were talking about it in the 1970s. Our first congress was about changing