New Urbanists Design Town For Deaf

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Karenn Gobrecht

17 April 2005 - 5:00am

One of the boldest new urban visions to date was created in late March for a field in South Dakota that would not ordinarily be a candidate for large-scale development.

"Laurent, a town designed for the hearing-impaired and for sign language users, may be the first community of its type anywhere. It also may become the first new urban community incorporated as a town. Another unusual aspect of Laurent is its Interstate highway orientation."

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Source: New Urban News, April 11, 2005

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For the past half century we have been building communities for the wrong reasons. We built them to sell cars. This created all sorts of problems.

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