Lecture Part 1 of 9

[pavilionking06]

Portland Oregon is an excellent example of a very "European" American city. With an urban growth boundary, great light rail, street car, bus systems and miles upon miles of bike-paths and dedicated bike lanes. The Pearl District neighborhood in the NW area of downtown Portland is a great example of New Urbanism.

[reinvnt]

I live in Austin......I highly disagree with this guy on S.A. Downtown..... horrible to to base the whole existence of your D.T. on tourism and clutter a bunch of Chain food restaurants around a fake river......I go to Vegas for that...where I can gamble and drink for free......Come to Austin sometime and enjoy the Town Lake as a place for nature and conservation that sits 5 minutes walk from Density...

[grisbandet]

It looks a few years old - when is this from? Have these ideas reached some popular awareness in American debate of today?

[jayandstacey1]

@grisbandet: This video is 30+ years old, and since then, Andres Duany's DPZ firm has designed about 300 such communities. So beyond popular awareness into popular implementation. This presentation was given in multiple places when the concept was brand new, I specifically recall watching the presentation given to Gaithersburg MD to convince them to allow Kentlands (Duany's second such project) to be built.

[grisbandet]

@jayandstacey1 Thank you. So there are plenty of good implimentations, then! Still, it's quite staggering to me how modernist ideals keep a pretty tight grip on urban planning, at least here in Europe. Neither market forces, nor politicians, do much to alter the course. There is also a misguided, elitist contempt against building "old fashioned style".

[mangoknights]

NuHerbAndizm, can you please repost this videos in higher resolution? 480p or greater would be great. Or if you could provide the source, we'd be happy to do it.

[SDS3AAPH]

if your interested in this topic, watch the clip on youtube by james howard kunstler: tradegy of suburbia.

[AthenaOnFire]

Hi, please watch my video on Urban Sprawl :)

[Audiomuse]

I live in San Antonio and barely anything has changed.

Sure, there are a few downtown developments here and there, but sprawl keeps moving into the countryside, far far away from downtown. San Antonio keeps annexing while letting growth spread out of control.

Awful planning... traffic is a mess, the city has no mobility

[funguycheng]

i found this lecture so interesting that after watching this i searched for Andres Duany's other videos and found a video called "On the Edge: Latest views from Andrés Duany" from google video, in which in expanded his views on new urbanism. It's simply genious.

[maxxoccupancy]

This is why we need to get more involved in state and local politics. Get involved and see the cronyism, the corruption, the eminent domain abuse... but also insist that you want quality builds--that you want something better than what we've been seeing over the years.

[beansworth]

Unfortunately, San Antonio did not take his advice. While They have continued to improve the downtown area, nothing has changed in the rest of the city. If anything, it's gotten worse. That's because San Antonio depends on a growth strategy of incorporating outside cities and county land, and has never been forced to reorganize or redevelop within.

[mgregg7]

I agree as that is most typical in american cities but I would have to give San Antonio huge credit for the river walk. The river walk is definitely something so many american cities can only dream of incorporating. Unfortunately surfacing to ground level from the river walk in many places one is met with a really sad urban condition.

[urbanewal]

the general public needs to be more educated and care about New Urbanism.

[alchemist889]

The hell is he on about? I prefer the "public realm" of the burbs to any city. The air itself is disgusting there. Sure, there are more clubs and shops. Everything else is a negative.