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JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY
EV5301: URBAN GEOGRAPHY AND DESIGN
FINAL ESSAY
JOHANNA OCHOA RUILOVA
2-11-2012
NEW URBANISM IS TOUTED AS THE SOLUTION TO SPRAWL (CSD) FOR MANY WESTERN CITIES. TO WHAT EXTENT IS THIS USEFUL AS A STRATEGY FOR CITIES IN THE TROPICAL WORLD?
INTRODUCTION
The New Urbanism, also called neo-traditional Planning, traditional neighborhood development or smart growth (Gyourko and Rybczynski, 2000) is a Community Design Reform movement born in response to the prevalence and consequences of unbridled expansion and urban/suburban fragmentation. New Urbanism advocates the revitalization of communities, development models based on pre-World War II. It’s also focused on the pedestrian oriented neighbourhoods with most economic and social facilities within a five minute walk, community oriented around public transit systems, and mixed land uses within neighbourhoods. The objective of New Urbanism is to integrate the components of modern life living, working, shopping and recreation in neighborhoods compact, multifunctional and friendly to pedestrians, in relation to a larger regional framework.
During the decade of the 70s, the cities were mostly built based on a ring system with a business district in downtown and suburban homes alike unfailingly around. However, in the late 1970s and early 1980s the ideas of the New Urbanism movement started to appear and spread. As urban planners and architects started to come up with plans to model cities in the U.S. the leaders in this design trend came together in 1993 to form the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), based in San Francisco (Steuteville, 2000). Some of the most important planers of these movement are Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberg who encouraged the creation of an alternative which could stop sprawling suburbanization over the territory (Hall, 2001, Steuteville, 2000).
This essay intends to give a general idea of the New Urbanist proposals,
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JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY
EV5301: URBAN GEOGRAPHY AND DESIGN
FINAL ESSAY
JOHANNA OCHOA RUILOVA
2-11-2012
NEW URBANISM IS TOUTED AS THE SOLUTION TO SPRAWL (CSD) FOR MANY WESTERN CITIES. TO WHAT EXTENT IS THIS USEFUL AS A STRATEGY FOR CITIES IN THE TROPICAL WORLD?
INTRODUCTION
The New Urbanism, also called neo-traditional Planning, traditional neighborhood development or smart growth (Gyourko and Rybczynski, 2000) is a Community Design Reform movement born in response to the prevalence and consequences of unbridled expansion and urban/suburban fragmentation. New Urbanism advocates the revitalization of communities, development models based on pre-World War II. It’s also focused on the pedestrian oriented neighbourhoods with most economic and social facilities within a five minute walk, community oriented around public transit systems, and mixed land uses within neighbourhoods. The objective of New Urbanism is to integrate the components of modern life living, working, shopping and recreation in neighborhoods compact, multifunctional and friendly to pedestrians, in relation to a larger regional framework.
During the decade of the 70s, the cities were mostly built based on a ring system with a business district in downtown and suburban homes alike unfailingly around. However, in the late 1970s and early 1980s the ideas of the New Urbanism movement started to appear and spread. As urban planners and architects started to come up with plans to model cities in the U.S. the leaders in this design trend came together in 1993 to form the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), based in San Francisco (Steuteville, 2000). Some of the most important planers of these movement are Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberg who encouraged the creation of an alternative which could stop sprawling suburbanization over the territory (Hall, 2001, Steuteville, 2000).
This essay intends to give a general idea of the New Urbanist proposals,
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