New Urbanism

Segment from CBS Sunday Morning May 20 2007

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• kentlands
• seaside
• urbanism
• duany
• dpz

[misternhh]

Of all the issues driving sprawl, immigration is probably near the bottom of the list. The big money is in more upscale development. Is there any data to support this argument or is this just an attempt to apply one issue to another for political purposes?

[ikerzgrove]

Urbanism IS the American Dream... Suburban sprawl was the American Nightmare... Interstates, Airports, Strip Malls, and would be the death of this country

[urbanewal]

Why it took so long for consumers / residence to realize the benefit for these kind of compact design ? I guess they don't care about the long commute, social isolation and financial burden of urban sprawl.

[jeffsandychelsea]

"fake towns"?? SUBURBIA is the one that's fake, not NU.

[xxx2397]

@MrJudube WTF is with people and the " american dream"? There is NO american dream. That's just some made up thing they used so people would move to the suburbs

[bmp456]

If you're gonna build a happy community with fine homes, Don,t build them with the same materials that everyone else uses, and all the homes will look like something out of a cheesy display. Thats what they mean by fake. Do the fine old neighborhoods that those people 100 years ago look cheesy? no. They weren't all built at the same time. To build perfect homes they need to be custom, no plastic columns, fences, or siding. But the social community Seems to be perfect.

[Nightmonkey17]

I'm a 24 year old geography student. New Urbanism is the way of the future. I don't want to live in a suburb.

[otis31755]

Hi, this is great and as a land use planner I see the benefit and I was raised in the old row homes in Louisville. I also design walkable communities as well and have a new 5 minute video at otis31755 or geo-life.org

[Cyrus992]

@Castaril

But why not? If we can spread the word on how these auto-oriented suburbs are destroying our finances, environment, traffic time/flow, health, social and cultural life, and of course energy supply.. people would rather live in these sustainiblity instead of being slaughtered in these nasty suburbs.

Eventually they will sell. With oil depletion and the global currency crisis... there will be a demand for a more localized network and the demand will rise. People then have choice.

[Castaril]

@Cyrus992 The free market only created those nice small towns out of necessity, when most people didn't own cars. The central planners purposefully did the opposite of what they were supposed to do after WWII with their zoning laws. The free market will never create a town like Seaside, FL.

[Cyrus992]

@Castaril

Okay.. but who were the suck-ups and maniacs who created the auto-oriented suburbs in the last 70 years?

The Central Planning Authority!

Who were bastards who helped made it happen with zoning and codes?

Oil, Cement, Asphalt, Car, Big Box, and Fast Food companies

What helped create the beautiful streetcar towns with the stick and queen anne styled buildings?

Mostly the free market.

Lets do it differently, to avoid criticsm from F*cktards like O'Toole and Cox!

[Castaril]

How the hell can anybody criticize New Urbanism in favor of suburbia? Suburbia is soulless and needs to be destroyed.

[Castaril]

@mistygarden "My problem with a place like Seaside, Fl is that it seems static and unchanging."

Suburbia isn't static? The place serves as a function for the people to live their lives. Because people age and new generations are born, compact communities are never static. I know people who live in in suburbia and don't even know their neighbors, and hardly see them. That's depressing.