New Urbanism

How Do You Rebuild A City In 90 Days?

| Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Crowdsourced Architecture, Architecture, Constitucion, Rebuilding Cities, Pop Up City, Kickstarter Architecture, New Urbanism, Diy Architecture, Destroyed Cities, Culture News

By Vanessa Quirk (click here for original article) A screenshot of the Video for the City 2.0, the 2012 TED Prize Winner, which aims to use cr...

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How To Save Suburbia

| Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Less Driving, Suburbia, Urban Planning, Architecture, Detroit, Cars, Suburban Architecture, New Urbanism, Saving Suburbia, City Planning, Culture News

By Vanessa Quirk Click here for original article. Copyright Flickr User CC tango_28 Poverty and violence, boarded windows and weedy lawns...

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Evaluating Green Communities: Part 5

Mark Hostetler | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Sustainable Living, Energy Efficiency, Urban Biodiversity, Biodiversity, Green Developments, Green, Sustainability, Green Living, Urban Ecology, New Urbanism, Smart Growth, Green News

When you think about it, a window has a complicated job: it must allow the sun's light to pass though, but not the sun's heat. It must keep cool conditioned air inside, but not have condensation on the outside of the glass.

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Evaluating Green Communities: Part 4

Mark Hostetler | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Sustainable Living, Urban Biodiversity, Biodiversity, Green Developments, Green, Sustainability, Green Living, Urban Ecology, New Urbanism, Smart Growth, Green Community Development, Green Communities, Green News

You should not rely on a certificate as the sole indicator of how green your community is -- rely more on your "on-the-ground" analysis. Here are some things to look for.

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Creating the Livable, Walkable Community

John M. Eger | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Livable Communities, Walkable Cities, New Urbanism, Urban Planning, Green News

One of the more interesting and exciting aspects of the "new urbanism" movement is that the next paradigm could well be much more than the return to the close-knit community of small villages and towns.

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Proxy Wars: More on Reconsidering Jane Jacobs

Frank Gruber | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: Andres Duany, New Urbanism, Urbanism, Urban Planning, Jane Jacobs, Jane Jacobs City, Jane Jacobs Urbanism, Books News

What the New Urbanists take from Jane Jacobs is what nearly every other planner or urbanist working today takes from Jacobs regardless in what context they work: a set of pro-urban values. Love of the city.

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Visioning Neighborhood and the City, Then and Now

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: City Grid Design, Grid Design for Chicago, City Grid and Design, Design City Grid, Grid Design City, Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Cities, Green News, Green, New Urbanism, Sustainability, Urbanism, Chicago News

Today's efforts to recreate elements of the city, of whatever prescription of urbanism (e.g., "new," "landscape" or "ecological"), often turn on issues once considered in design competitions long forgotten.

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Urbanism Chasing Utopia

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 06.11.2011

Generally speaking, the description of any Utopia that involves many details is apt to be an unconvincing way to present a principle which can be appl...

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Hill Towns as Icons of Placemaking

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Travel News, Green News, New Urbanism, World, Cities, Sustainability, Urbanism, World News, Green, Culture, Green News

Hilltop centers can serve as the partially self-contained models for the compact and dense urban neighborhoods which are increasingly the vanguard of new century urbanism.

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Talking Urban: A Review of The Language of Towns and Cities by Dhiru A. Thadani

Frank Gruber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Urbanism, Urban Planning, Urbanism, Seaside (Florida), Dhiru A. Thadani, Modernism, Le Corbusier, Kentlands, Modernist Urban Planning, Urban Sprawl, Books News

The Language of Towns and Cities is an oddly personal work. I say "oddly," because the book's title invokes that most characteristically objective of all books, the dictionary.

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Rethinking the Essence of Urbanism

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: World, New Urbanism, Cities, Urbanism, Green News

A key facet of urbanism comes from that indescribable human dance of history, people and place that occurs when we simply like what we see.

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Landmarking Urban Change in New York

Roberta Brandes Gratz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Change, Historic Preservation, Urban Design, Social Change, New-Urbanism, Density, Modernist-Architecture, 2 Columbus Circle, New York Architecture, NY Culture, NY Real Estate, New York News

New York City has become a city for the rich and the poor for national and local economic reasons that have nothing to do with preservation.

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Life After Sprawl: Why the Green Revolution Must Start in Suburbia

Alex Becker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainability, Urban Design, Green Living, Green Energy, New Urbanism, Housing and Urban Development, Green News

Calls to be greener and use less energy ultimately mean nothing unless we can fundamentally restructure the suburban environment. The real problem with suburbia, after all, is spatial.

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City Shaping II: Will Architecture Go Horizontal?

Charles A. Birnbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Architecture, Harvard, Landscape Architecture, Landscape Urbanism, New Urbanism, Suburbs, Urban Planning, Landscapes, Arts News

Landscape Urbanism sees landscape architecture, rather than architecture, as the design medium more capable of organizing the city and enhancing the urban experience.

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Rosemary Beach, Florida: A New Urbanism for Beach-Goers

Pam Grout | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environmentalism, Rosemary Beach, Florida, New Urbanism, Lawns, Bald Eagle, Pish Posh Patchouli's, Beaches, Travel News

Rosemary Beach is one of 14 experimental communities along the 26 miles of Florida's South Walton Beach and unlike most American towns, Rosemary Beach doesn't allow front yards.

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Urban Design: Good Book, Unfortunate Field?

Frank Gruber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alex Krieger, Michael Sorkin, Denise Scott Brown, Lewis Mumford, Urban Planning, Joan Busquets, Jane Jacobs, Urban Design, Rem Koolhaas, New Urbanism, Urbanism, William Saunders, Books News

Urban Design is an excellent guide to both the history of Urban Design as a field and today's conflicts both within and without.

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Could Agriculture Replace Golf For Suburban Communities?

GOOD | Allison Arieff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Agriculture Golf, Farming Suburban Community, Food Production, Golf, Agriculture, Agriculture Suburban Community, Golf Suburban Community, Urban Development, Urban Agriculture, New Urbanism, Andres Duany, Green News

In cities, agriculture might be able to take the place of vacant lots. And in suburbia? Well, in 2008, the New Urbanism evangelist Andrés Duany, of D...

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Grey to Green. Innovating the Sustainable City.

Marc Stoiber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainable Cities, Durban, Calgary, Suburban Nation, Sustainabilty, Architecture, New Urbanism, Andres Duany, International Centre for Sustainable Cities, City Planning, Green News

Cities cover only 3% of the world's land mass, but they house 50% of the world's population, consume 75% of the world's resources and emit a correspon...

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Boulder's Transit Village Plan Debated

Bob Wells | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Transit Village, Boulder, New Urbanism, Matt Appelbaum, City Planning, Boulder-Politics, Colorado Politics, Fastracks, Denver News

The discussion was mostly polite and the issues complex as 70 people crowded into a downtown Library room to hear four experts discuss Boulder's planned Transit Village redevelopment plan.

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Half a Bridge: A Review of "The Smart Growth Manual" by Andres Duany and Jeff Speck with Mike Lydon

Frank Gruber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sprawl, Andres Duany, New Urbanism, Urban Planning, Smart Growth, Urbanism, Urban Sprawl, Books News

If The Smart Growth Manual used images that were more urban, it would have an easier time facilitating a dialogue between the warring camps of urbanists.

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A Fourth Urbanism, Part 6: Limitations on Urbanism

Frank Gruber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Urban Design, Cityism, New Urbanism, Urban Planning, Urbanism, City Planning, Politics News

Bad schools and even the perception of disorder drive people from the city more effectively than bad urban form, and keeping people in the city is more important than the form the city takes.

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A Fourth Urbanism, Part 4: More on the "Why" of Cityism

Frank Gruber | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Koning Eizenberg, Santa Monica, Cityism, Barcelona, Vancouver, New Urbanism, Urbanism, Healthy Living News

Because the rebuilding of cities is so important, the effort to do so, if that effort is based on recognizable principles, deserves recognition as something special.

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In Search of a Fourth Urbanism Part 3; Wherein I Name One

Frank Gruber | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Cityism, Mies Van Der Rohe, Vancouver, Santa Monica, Barcelona, New Urbanism, Robert Venturi, Denver, Healthy Living News

I wrote about three places where I have seen Cityism occurring -- Vancouver, Barcelona, and my own city of Santa Monica -- but there are many other cities where Cityism is taking place.

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Searching for a Fourth Urbanism, Part 2: Wherein I Find One and Describe it

Frank Gruber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Everyday Urbanism, Sprawl, Vancouver, Santa Monica, New Urbanism, Barcelona, Urbanism, Style News

The developments in these three cities are based on maximizing and capturing the economic value of city real estate. They all represent intensification of uses.

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Kindle a book, light my fire

Mark Oppenheimer | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Kindle, Elizabeth Farrelly, New Urbanism, Bridge Street Books, Healthy Living News

I was in Washington, D.C., over the weekend, and I went into Bridge Street Books, located nowhere near Bridge Street, from what I could tell. It was o...

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