New Urbanism
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New Urbanism is an urban design movement that arose in the United States in the early 1980s. Its goal is to reform many aspects of real estate development and urban planning, from urban retrofits to suburban infill. New urbanist neighborhoods are designed to contain a diverse range of housing and jobs, and to be walkable.
New Urbanism can include (neo)traditional neighborhood design, transit-oriented development, and New Pedestrianism. New Urbanism is the re-invention of the old urbanism, commonly seen before the advent of the automobile age, while New Pedestrianism is a further elaboration of less common, pedestrian-oriented, urban design experiments that date to the early 20th century.
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New Urbanism in Film
The 1998 fantasy comedy-drama film The Truman Show uses the real life New Urbanist town of Seaside, Florida as the setting for a perfect, fictional town constructed as a set for a television show. The 2004 documentary The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream argues that the depletion of oil will result in the demise of the sprawl-type development. New Urban Cowboy: Toward a New Pedestrianism, a feature length 2008 documentary about urban designer Michael E. Arth, explains the principles of New Urbanism, gives a brief history of the movement, and chronicles the rebuilding of an inner city slum into a model of New Urbanism. The film promotes a more ecology- and pedestrian-oriented branch of New Urbanism called New Pedestrianism that Arth founded in 1999.
See also
Architects and urbanists
- Alexander, Christopher
- Arth, Michael E.
- Beasley, Larry
- Bess, Philip
- Calthorpe, Peter
- Duany, Andrés and Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth
- Jacobs, Jane
- Krier, Leon
- Kunstler, James Howard
- Van der Ryn, Sim
Locations
- Greenbelt, Maryland
- Kentlands, Gaithersburg, Maryland
- National Harbor
- Orenco Station, Oregon (New Urbanist transit-oriented development)
- Beacon Cove
- Poundbury
- Seaside, Florida
- Stapleton Colorado Redevelopment
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Topics
- Car-free movement
- Carsharing
- Crime prevention through environmental design
- European Urban Renaissance
- Gentrification
- Naked streets
- New Mobility Agenda
- New Pedestrianism
- Principles of Intelligent Urbanism
- Pedestrian-oriented development
- Pedestrian Village
- Smart Growth
- Transit-oriented development
- Urban Design
- Urban Renaissance
- Urbanate
- Urbanism
- World Urbanism Day
