Table of Contents The Narrow Base of the New Urbanists By Michael Pyatok Seventh Generation By Richard Milgrom Placemaking as a Critique of New Urbanism By Robert G. Shibley From “Sugar Cookies” to “Gingerbread Men”: Conformity in Suburban Design By […]
HOPE VI and the New Urbanism: Eliminating Low-Income Housing to Make Mixed-Income Communities
By Janet L. Smith Chicago’s public housing is testimony to a long history of struggle between poor people and politicians. The latest contest is over the Chicago Housing Authority’s (CHA) Plan for Transformation, which aims to reduce the existing […]
New Urban Planning for Neighborhood Revitalization
By Jennifer Hurley I became interested in planning because I wanted to fight poverty, and I saw that poverty and the physical environment were tied together. I was also concerned with protecting the natural environment and preserving quality architecture. I […]
From “Sugar Cookies” to “Gingerbread Men”: Conformity in Suburban Design
By Jill Grant New urbanist-inspired approaches to suburban development are common in contemporary Canada. Suburbs influenced by new urbanism and featuring modified grid layouts, narrow streets, small lots and limited street setbacks are increasingly common. “Traditional” houses with front porches […]
The Narrow Base of the New Urbanists
By Michael Pyatok New urbanism has been aggressively marketed within the last decade by “boomers” who came of age professionally in the 1990s, disenchanted with the negative physical and social consequences of the sprawl and urban renewal they had witnessed […]