Codes and Plans The Key To New Urbanism

19 December 2006 - 7:00am

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

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"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."

Source: New Urban News, December 13, 2006