New Urbanism And The Popsicle Test
CNU offers a simple "popsicle test" to determine if your neighborhood is a New Urbanist neighborhood.
"If an 8-year-old can take a bike to a store for a Popsicle without having to battle highway-size streets, you're probably in a new urbanist neighborhood."
The Charolotte Observer talks to five Charlotte-area land-development professionals about New Urbanism -- and why Charlotte residents should recognize New Urbanism and care about it.
"New Urbanism is the term for types of residential, commercial and mixed-use development that learn from the ways Americans built towns and cities from the 17th century to the 1940s."
Thanks to Chris Steins
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Published on Saturday, November 13, 2004 in
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