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New Development Doesn't Follow New Urbanism Roots

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Jennifer Edwards
10 January 2003 - 7:00am

Critics say Quebec Square, a shopping center in northeast Denver planned for the New Urbanist redevelopment of the city's former airport is a "paean to the automobile."

"Quebec Square, the 740,000- square-foot shopping center in northeast Denver, is the first of five retail centers planned for the 4,700-acre site. But critics call Quebec Square a paean to the automobile. It fails to meet the minimum standards of New Urbanism, they say."

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Source: The Rocky Mountain News, January 9, 2003
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