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Is New Urbanism A Failure?

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
19 January 2001 - 8:00am

Few U.S. cities have been successful in turning downtowns into residential and retail hubs.

"Nationwide, downtown areas have not become the residential and retail hubs that planners had hoped for, experts say... Berkeley, Calif.-based architect Peter Calthorp developed the concept of "new urbanism" in theearly 1990s...New urbanism advocates say that downtown areas should include street-level retail storefronts, houses with porches and good public transportation. The idea is to re-create old neighborhoods that are community-oriented, unfriendly to automobiles and safe for children."New Urbanism has been successful in selected cities such as Denver.

Full Story: Few Cities Revamp Downtown
Source: The Rocky Mountain News, January 18, 2001
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New Suburbanism is not a new design paradigm that seeks to compete with or discredit principles of New Urbanism. Instead, our perspective represents a broad-based attempt to find the best, most practical ways to develop and redevelop suburban communities.
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