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Detroit's Bing proposes relocating residents of blighted neighborhoods.

0 Tue, Jun 15th 2010 12:14pm
More neighborliness, less driving in Canadian NU

New urban developments show lower automobile use, more walking, and higher levels of social activity and community satisfaction than corresponding suburban developments

0 Fri, Jun 11th 2010 2:13pm
New urban community promotes social networks and walking

A study of Orenco Station, a large traditional neighborhood development in Hillsboro, Oregon, backs claims that new urban design fosters physical activity and adds to the richness of community life.

0 Tue, Feb 16th 2010 2:16pm
New Urbanism is about better living

In its early days, New Urbanism as a concept was sold based on how it could help humans to have a better life.

0 Tue, Feb 16th 2010 2:16pm
Getting along with homeowners

Developers of new urban (NU) communities — founders — are often disappointed and rather surprised to find out that they are not universally beloved by homeowners.

0 Tue, Feb 16th 2010 2:15pm
Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Sacred,

By Philip Bess
Bess has never advocated giving Christian witness a preferred place at the new urbanist table; he simply wants sound ideas to be given their due regardless of the convictions from which they emerge.

0 Tue, Feb 16th 2010 2:15pm
It’s a Sprawl World After All: The Human Cost of Unplanned Growth — and Visions of a Better Future

By Douglas E. Morris
Feeling lonely, depressed, victimized by rudeness, and threatened with violence? You may be suffering from the physical breakdown of American communities, according to Douglas Morris.

0 Tue, Feb 16th 2010 2:13pm
Legalizing New Urbanism
For decades, rigid zoning codes that segregate housing, offices, stores, and civic buildings have blocked the creation of the traditional neighborhoods that are an essential element of the New Urbanism. Traditional neighborhood development has been effectively outlawed by minimum lot size requirements in residential areas, zoning restrictions banning apartments over shops, and parking requirements for businesses that turn downtowns into parking lots.
0 Tue, Feb 16th 2010 2:13pm
Intown Living: A Different American Dream By Ann Breen and Dick Rigby

Island Press, 2005, 304 pp., paperback $29.95. Ann Breen and Dick Rigby run the Waterfront Center, a nonprofit Washington, DC-based organization they founded in 1981 to promote the best possible redevelopment of urban waterfronts. They travel a lot, and they’re highly attentive observers — two factors that help explain why Intown Living surpasses most other books about the revival or re-creation of urban neighborhoods.

0 Tue, Feb 16th 2010 2:13pm
‘Cohousing’ bolsters new urban neighborhoods
An alternative to the solitary household finds a place in TND projects. Cohousing communities — developments whose residents share dining facilities, gardens, recreation space, and other amenities — have cropped up in 80 locations in the US since 1991, when the first such project, containing 26 townhouses and community gathering places, was built on a 2.9-acre plot in Davis, California. Now, as the cohousing movement learns how to organize projects faster, cohousing is becoming an increasingly promising option for new urban developments.
0 Tue, Feb 16th 2010 2:13pm
Cohousing guidelines, sources
The book that introduced North America to this community concept is Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves by Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett, available in a second edition from Ten Speed Press ($29.95). The authors tell how cohousing developed in Denmark as a grassroots movement and explain how it works in the US using profiles of cohousing communities. “Anywhere from 12 to up to 36 households seems to work best” as a size for a cohousing development, say McCamant and Durrett.
0 Tue, Feb 16th 2010 2:13pm
Celebration: The Story of a Town

By Michael Lassell Disney Editions, 2004, 160 pp., hardcover $50. Those looking for a putdown of Celebration won’t find it in Celebration: The Story of a Town, which is a generally glowing account and assessment of Disney’s famous Florida new urban real estate development. In publishing the book, Disney claims to have sought out an independent author with an objective point of view. Manhattan resident Michael Lassell, a long-time editor at Metropolitan Home and avowed modernist, would seem a good choice.

0 Tue, Feb 16th 2010 2:13pm
Numbers don’t lie: HOPE VI has worked wonders

A recent study by Sean Zielenbach of the Housing Research Foundation in Washington, DC, is comprehensive and breathtaking.

0 Tue, Feb 16th 2010 2:12pm
Is walking only for adults?
National trends always seem more real when they come to the city you call home. In New Haven, Connecticut, the 124,000-population city where I live, the market for housing near the center suddenly is running remarkably strong — making local people feel that urban revival is not something reserved for bigger and better-established places. Just over the sunken railroad tracks from downtown, the Strouse- Alder factory where women used to make Smoothie corsets has been converted into dozens of apartments.
0 Tue, Feb 16th 2010 2:12pm
A study in Galway, Ireland

A study in Galway, Ireland, one of the fastest-growing places in Europe, shows that “residents living in walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods are more likely to know their neighbors, to participate politically, to trust others, and to be involved socially.” In the September 2003 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, Kevin M.

0 Tue, Feb 16th 2010 2:11pm

Research

More neighborliness, less driving in Canadian NU

New urban developments show lower automobile use, more walking, and higher levels of social activity and community satisfaction than corresponding suburban developments

0 Fri, Jun 11th 2010 2:13pm
New urban community promotes social networks and walking

A study of Orenco Station, a large traditional neighborhood development in Hillsboro, Oregon, backs claims that new urban design fosters physical activity and adds to the richness of community life.

0 Tue, Feb 16th 2010 2:16pm
Numbers don’t lie: HOPE VI has worked wonders

A recent study by Sean Zielenbach of the Housing Research Foundation in Washington, DC, is comprehensive and breathtaking.

0 Tue, Feb 16th 2010 2:12pm

New urban community promotes social networks and walking

A study of Orenco Station, a large traditional neighborhood development in Hillsboro, Oregon, backs claims that new urban design fosters physical activity and adds to the richness of community life.

Celebration residents drive less, report quality-of-life benefits

In a survey reaching half the town’s households, 63 percent of the residents reported using their cars less than they did in their previous community. Only 8 percent said they drive more, and 29 percent reported no change in their driving habits.

Insights from the front porch

Residents in a new urbanist community say design can promote social interaction without sacrificing privacy.