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A Fourth Urbanism, Part 6: Limitations on Urbanism

Frank Gruber | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

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

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 08.15.2009 | Living

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

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 08.09.2009 | Living

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

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 08.01.2009 | Style

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

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 07.30.2009 | Living

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

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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In Search of a Fourth Urbanism

Frank Gruber | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Architecture, Sprawl, New Urbanism, Everday Urbanism, Urbanism, Living News
Frank Gruber

If conventional suburban development is our civilization, it has had its discontents for a long time. It's worth considering what the alternatives are.

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Who's Against the New Urbanism?

Mark Oppenheimer | Posted 07.16.2009 | Living

Read More: New Haven, New Urbanism, Philip Langdon, Andres Duany, Ray Oldenburg, Living News
Mark Oppenheimer

As I wrote this morning at the New Haven Review (where I would love to receive comments): I have been thinking about turning this article I wrote abo...

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Report From the Denver New Urbanism Congress Part 3

Frank Gruber | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sprawl, In-Fill Development, New Urbanism, Urbanism, City Planning, Politics News
Frank Gruber

New Urbanism is an elastic concept, and an elastic movement. On one hand it's pragmatic, on the other, it's got a Charter with principles.

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Report From the Denver New Urbanism Congress, Part 2

Frank Gruber | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Architecture, Sprawl, New-Urbanism, City Planning, Politics News
Frank Gruber

Theories were created for all kinds of urbanism except for the kind that became dominant in America: suburban sprawl.

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New Urbanism: Very Misunderstood

Frank Gruber | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: New-Urbanism, Denver, Politics News
Frank Gruber

New Urbanists are attacked from both sides of America's cultural divide. Chances are, if you mention New Urbanism to a group of forward thinking, contemporary design professionals, whether architects or planners, they will roll their eyes.

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Death of a Dream, Giving Birth to Another

Richard Stuebi | Posted 08.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Gas Prices, Mass Transit, Transit-Oriented Development, New Urbanism, Green News
Richard Stuebi

Recently, the Wall Street Journal ran a story that raised the heretical question: is the American dream of suburbanism being killed by high gas prices...

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