New Urbanism

Basics

• A Design Princible Promoting Complete Streets / Walkability, Higher Density Than Suburbs etc so as to reduce (in theory...se below) Urban Sprawl , Eco-friedly principles, and community via public spaces/community centers etc
  • This needs a clearer definition?

Internal Links

• OBI Aesthetic
• Group Housing (a common, but not essential per se aspect of new urbanism, also only ever medium level, not skyscrapers)

External Links

• The Wikipedia Page on New Urbanism
• A CNU . org Article "The death of New Urbanism is greatly exaggerated"
• A Medium . org article "New Urbanism: a bandaid on a failed urban form"
• An article pointing out how it must be taken into acount with how it fits into the whole, and not be a echo chamber/bubble, and just be a psudo-utopia that actually ADDS to urban sprawl
• "Drawbacks of New Urbanism" Similar points as above, mainly the issue of "retrofit-ability" due to how major roads and skyscrapers in a city can't exactly dissapear etc