New Apartments For A Suburban City
16 April 2003 - 10:00am
New apartments blend urban ideas into business-park settings in San Jose.
"Experiments using urban ideas to create the suburban city of the future continue to blossom...North Park creates a decent urban/communal space within its boundaries, and it fits intelligently into the city fabric beyond...borrows pieces from the traditional urban landscape and adapts them to suburbia. Here you find flat sidewalks and square blocks lined with front stoops, trees and parallel parking....As suburbia evolves, it borrows from many sources. What matters is how well traditional forms are adapted to the realities of the suburban environment."
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San Jose Mercury News, April 13, 2003
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