Is New Urbanism The Next Internet?

Charles Brewer writes: "Is urbanism the next Internet? It's sort of like comparing apples and oranges. I think of the Internet as a tool, primarily. It helps me communicate with people, and it helps me gather information or entertainment. And I think of new urbanism as a set of guidelines for creating good places to live, work and play. But to some extent the Internet can create 'places' also. List-serves, for example, are in a way places. The conversations people have on them are, I suspect, richer and more thoughtful than many of the routine ones that they have in their physical lives. It is in fact very cool to be able to carry on discussions of this sort with leading thinkers from all over the world. And as bandwidth and technology allow richer and richer interactions over the net, the net's ability to create 'places' will certainly be enhanced." Charles Brewer founded MindSpring in 1994. He later served as chairman of EarthLink, Inc., a company formed by the merger of MindSpring and EarthLink.

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