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Density Of A Cow Town, Traffic Of A Metropolis

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Richard Layman
18 May 2004 - 10:00am

New Urbanists Andres Duany and Anton Nelessen keynote the Building a Better Richmond conference in Virginia.

"The Richmond area should scrap its model for suburban development and borrow from the best between Windsor Farms and Shockoe Bottom, two internationally known planners told about 500 business and community leaders yesterday...Duany emphasized he doesn't advocate prohibiting the current style of suburban development. Instead, he called for flexibility in local zoning codes so both types of communities can be built."

[Conference Agenda, PDF, 1 page.]

Full Story: Planners tout 'new urbanism': They tell local leaders to scrap area's model for building suburbia
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch, May 18, 2004
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