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Codes and Plans The Key To New Urbanism

Posted by: The Intrepid Staff
Thanks to: Gayle Ross
19 December 2006 - 7:00am

Robert Steuteville comments on the progress The New Urbanism has made in implementing form-based codes and regional plans.

"If the New Urbanism is going to change development patterns in a fundamental way, the keys will be codes and regional plans. These have the potential to change the land-use operating system, improving the outcomes long after the practitioners who create the codes and plans leave town. That’s the theory — so it’s nice to see the theory becoming a reality."

Full Story: Codes and plans make progress
Source: New Urban News, December 13, 2006
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