Does New Urbanism Make Good Neighbors?
8 October 2000 - 9:00am
New urbanism is about restoring the idea of the neighborhood. But does it make for good neighbors?
"In the late 1940s, a builder named William Levitt started a revolution in a Long Island potato field. Levitt built 2,000 simple, identical houses for returning GIs in the midst of a nationwide housing crisis. Levittown, as the development became known, was the first emblem of a new American lifestyle -- suburbanism. "
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Won't you be my neighbor?
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CNN, September 30, 2000
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