Nature-oriented urbanism is changing the face of North America's cities.
"Just as the City Beautiful movement at the turn of the 20th century transformed Americas ideas of urban design, todays planners and designers are turning to new models for reclaiming cities and retrofitting suburbs. A century ago, planners tried to lift Americas newly industrialized cities out of their congestion and squalor by infusing them with Beaux Arts architecture and civic planning borrowed from Europe and building parks to provide places of fresh air and sunlight. That movement died with the birth of the automobile age after World War I, when planners reshaped cities to accommodate cars and promoted development of residential areas in the suburbsthought at the time to be the healthy antidote to urban life.
"Today, an urban sustainability movement is inspiring architects and city planners to shape new visions of city life, whether its remaking old downtowns and industrial wastelands, incorporating green space, or channeling new growth smartly. Community activists, too, are coming up with new ways of making neighborhoods and cities healthierecologically as well as socially. Here are some tools theyre using."
Thanks to Michael Dudley
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