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	Urbanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prescriptively, urbanism is the study and practice of creating human communities for living, work, and play; it covers the more human aspects of urban planning, where the prescriptive aspects of urbanism are more fully covered.
		Descriptively, urbanism is the study of cities - their economic, political, social and cultural environment, and the imprint of all these forces on the built environment.
		Urbanism assumes that there is such an entity as the "urban" with its characteristic high population density, and that it can be clearly distinguished from the "rural".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Urbanism (427 words)

	New Urbanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The new urbanism is a reaction to sprawl.
		The heart of new urbanism is in the design of neighborhoods, which can be defined by 13 elements, according to town planners Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, two of the founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism.
		New urbanism is in part a reform movement and, as such, has drawn criticism from all quarters of the political spectrum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Urbanism (2813 words)

	loud paper : articles
		Wirth was concerned with defining urbanism in a sociologically rigorous way and thus came to an understanding of the city as constituted not as a physical structure but rather as a way of life.
		In his "Urbanism as a Way of Life," Wirth defined urbanism as being marked by a large and heterogeneous population, a density that concentrated that population and the new forms of behavior and relationships that resulted.
		Urbanism is the province of the young, as yet unfettered by the shackles of compromise and tradition.
	www.loudpapermag.com /article.php?id=39 (1829 words)

	Situationist International Online
		We speak of urbanism only to the extent that with the concept of conscious creation and its relationship to a superior life, we advocate a definitive break with current notions of urbanism.
		The idea of a unitary urbanism was generated on the one hand by the experiments into the dérive and psychogeography, invented and practiced by the lettrists; and on the other by the building research undertaken by a few modern architects and sculptors.
		Unitary urbanism is not a cultural work but a permanent activity, and this activity began at the very moment that the notion of unitary urbanism was born.
	www.cddc.vt.edu /sionline/si/inaugural.html (1080 words)

	Market-Oriented New Urbanism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		New urbanism at the neighborhood level is a development innovation, one that is stifled by current restrictive land use controls.
		Realize that the concept of new urbanism can succeed only if it is perceived as an improved development innovation from the average suburb, not a mandated government design.
		Understand that new urbanism is not a policy cure for all growth ills, but rather one alternative neighborhood design that may improve the attractiveness, functioning, and aesthetics of a neighborhood.
	www.rppi.org /marketnewurban.html (1169 words)

	moham.html
		Urbanism is dedicated to Canadian Modern Architecture and Design, and to the Preservation of Architecture across the Dominion of Canada.
		Urbanism was launched in mid-1998 in a campaign to save Toronto's CNE Grandstand Stadium from demolition.
		Urbanism is a resourse for the public to utilise and act if they so choose.
	www.interlog.com /~urbanism/moham.html (2276 words)

	Basic Program of the Bureau of Unitary Urbanism (Kotanyi & Vaneigem)
		The main achievement of contemporary city planning is to have made people blind to the possibility of what we call unitary urbanism, namely a living critique of this manipulation of cities and their inhabitants, a critique fueled by all the tensions of everyday life.
		Unitary urbanism is the contrary of a specialized activity; to accept a separate urbanistic domain is already to accept the whole urbanistic lie and the falsehood permeating the whole of life.
		With the advent of unitary urbanism, present city planning (that geology of lies) will be replaced by a technique for defending the permanently threatened conditions of freedom, and individuals — who do not yet exist as such — will begin freely constructing their own history.
	www.bopsecrets.org /SI/6.unitaryurb.htm (1100 words)

	City Comforts, the blog: Is New Urbanism "crimogenic?"
		This is [sic] creates a dilemma for proponents of New Urbanism and their solution is to reject certain key crime reduction principles in order to try and overcome the fact that much of the concept is inherently (and demonstrably) criminogenic.
		New urbanism, in the U.S. at least, recovers defensible space from the depredation of modernist theory (towers or housing pods naturalistically arranged in communal parks; brutalist megastructures with blank walls fronting the street).
		I think the authors use of criminogenic for new urbanism may be a little of an over reaction, however the poor design/layout of estates can be enablers for acts of criminal activity, what is certain is that eco-warriors campaign against the motor vehicle have found a friend in new urbanism.
	citycomfortsblog.typepad.com /cities/2003/10/centerfield_cri.html (1908 words)

	Periferia: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Everyday Urbanism is the most populist, with the designer seen as an empirical student of the common and popular as opposed to the idealized or purified.
		Everyday Urbanism, which is the least aesthetically driven, rarely achieves beauty or coherence, day or night, micro or macro, but is egalitarian and lively on the street.
		Tourists in rental cars, experiencing the architecture and urbanism through their windshields, are a better served audience than residents for whom there is little human-scale nuance and architectural detail to reveal itself over the years.
	www.periferia.org /3000/3paradigms.html (1905 words)

	Libertarians at the Gates of New Urbanism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The challenge of urbanism is not just that we have to manage the externalities that result from people living close to each other.
		The general lack of recognition among Libertarians that urbanism has been largely banned by existing regulations and codes, and their insistence on directing their attacks on urbanism rather than on those codes in pretty good evidence that Libertarianism is just another shallow ideological fad.
		From the perspective of New Urbanism, I think it is a fundamental misunderstanding of both the position and motives of the market-oriented folks (which includes libertarians, conservatives, private property rights advocates, and others that simply want to be left alone) to assume that their opposition to Smart Growth is opposition to New Urbanism.
	www.rppi.org /libertariansatthegates.html (4490 words)

	New Urbanism Does Not Promote Crime \| Planetizen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He equates the New Urbanism with "Radburn" layouts, which are rarely used in true New Urban communities.
		He adds that New Urbanism promotes pedestrian permeability but restriction of vehicular traffic, which is not true, either.
		An analysis that makes broad generalizations about New Urbanism based on data from a community that is not New Urban is obviously not worth the hard disk space that it occupies.
	www.planetizen.com /oped/item.php?id=110 (1569 words)

	FSCC State News Services: Sustainable Communities Do NOT Automatically Result From New Urbanism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In this lack of "post-occupancy evaluation," New Urbanism is oddly similar to its supposed arch-enemy, modern architecture, when modernism was at the peak of its influence in the making (or un-making) of cities.
		Living in New Urbanism does not automatically change us into "new urbanites." Occupants of New Urbanist developments are most often refugees from traditional suburbia or those seeking its benefits in a scaled-down model.
		This immodest suggestion assumes that the proponents of New Urbanism are serious about creating more than simply the appearance of sustainable communities--as is suggested by the optimistic title of this conference.
	www.state.fl.us /fdi/fscc/news/state/9804/mccarter.htm (999 words)

	Unitary Urbanism
		Such is the case with the origins of unitary urbanism (UU), intuited as early as 1953 and first named as such at the end of 1956 in a tract distributed on the occasion of a demonstration by our Italian comrades in Turin.
		Unitary urbanism is one of the central concerns of the SI and, despite any delays and difficulties that might arise in its application, it is entirely correct (as the opening report of the Munich conference confirms) that unitary urbanism has already begun at the moment that it appears as a program of research and development.
		First all of, UU is not a doctrine of urbanism but a critique of urbanism.
	www.notbored.org /UU.html (1701 words)

	CNU Florida - the Congress for the New Urbanism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In celebration of the June 2002 Tenth Congress for the New Urbanism in Miami Beach, this overview highlights the remarkable record of New Urbanism in South Florida.
		Long before New Urbanism became a name, faculty members were teaching the importance of design based on precedents and viewing architecture as part of a city.
		Today, conditions in South Florida are ripe for the broader application of New Urbanism throughout the region – there is the demand, with the pressing need to change the way of planning, and the concentration of expertise.
	www.cnuflorida.org /nu_florida/south_florida.htm (4752 words)

	About New Urbanism
		New urbanists take a wide variety of approaches — some work exclusively on infill projects, others focus on transit-oriented development, still others are attempting to transform the suburbs, and many are working in all of these categories.
		Just as Starbucks raised the quality of coffee in competing restaurants and cafes, mainstream developers are adopting new urban design elements such as garages in the rear of houses, neighborhood greens and mixed-use town centers.
		While using designers and principles closely associated with the New Urbanism, Disney has shunned the label, preferring to call Celebration simply a “town.” Meanwhile, the movement may have benefited from all of Celebration’s publicity — but not without a price.
	www.newurbannews.com /AboutNewUrbanism.html (2062 words)

	HISTORY OF UNITARY URBANISM AND PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY AT THE TURN OF
		Another founding text was The Formulary for a New Urbanism, by Gilles Ivain alias Ivan Chtcheglov, written in 1953 and published in 1958, in the first issue of the Situationist International bulletin.
		In the third issue of the bulletin published in december 1959, the text " Unitary Urbanism at the end of the fifties " confirmed that Unitary Urbanism was one of the central concerns of the SI and that Unitary Urbanism was not a doctrine of urbanism but a critique of urbanism.
		Guy Debord said that urbanism was becoming an ideology and that people were becoming too much fascinated by it.
	www.socialfiction.org /psychogeography/unitary_urbanism.html (2794 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: New Orleans: New Urbanism?
		Admirers find New Urbanism to be an attractive, ecologically responsible alternative to the never-ceasing cycle of suburban single-story, petroleum-dependent blight, or the denser, dirtier cities that the suburbanites were fleeing.
		In post-Katrina New Orleans, New Urbanism could mean an expansion of the beloved small-scale, city-mouse lifestyle of the city's old neighborhoods.
		One of the city's most notable New Urbanism proponents is Pres Kabacoff, chief operating officer of Historic Restoration Inc., a development company principally known for converting unused industrial dinosaurs into apartment hives, with restaurants, dry cleaners, wine shops, workout centers, swimming pools and other on-site yuppie amenities — a sort of old urban/New Urban synthesis.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002626329_neworleans16.html (1429 words)

	Welcome to the New Urbanism
		In addition, it would be ideal to have a variety of travel options, housing for all and protected natural areas.
		An attempt to deliver these amenities in one package is a form of planning called new urbanism.
		New urbanism returns to these time-tested principles and adapts them for a healthy, sustainable 21st century.
	www.tndtownpaper.com /welcome_to_nu.htm (336 words)

	NSBH: New Urbanism
		The Congress for the New Urbanism views disinvestment in central cities, the spread of placeless sprawl, increasing separation by race and income, environmental deterioration, loss of agricultural lands and wilderness, and the erosion of society's built heritage as one interrelated community-building challenge.
		The New Urbanism is the most talked about trend in planning and community design in the last decade, and New Urban News is the only publication devoted exclusively to providing detailed, substantial news and analysis of this trend.
		NEW URBANISM is the most important planning movement this century, and is about creating a better future for us all.
	www.notsobighouse.com /urbanism.asp (555 words)

	The Next Conservatism #10: Conservative New Urbanism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is called “new urbanism.” As a conservative, I think new urbanism needs to be part of the next conservatism.
		Conservative new urbanism should be built on property rights.
		That is conservative new urbanism, and I think it needs to be part of the next conservative agenda.
	www.freecongress.org /commentaries/2005/050920.asp (755 words)

	The Claremont Institute: The New Urbanism:From Aristotle and God to Baseball
		So the first point about New Urbanism (in contrast to the view that has grown since the rise of the Industrial City from the mid-18th century and now prevails in much of contemporary culture) is that it views urbanism positively, as something that human beings will naturally do in order to live a good life.
		The paradox of New Urbanism is that what it seeks is to relearn and restore the habits of good urbanism; but that in order to do that, it must first change the legal environment to make traditional urbanism even possible.
		The argument goes something like this: the primary symbolic import of architecture is not as an emblem of its "age" or its structural "honesty," but rather as a symbol of its commissioning institution; and ultimately, of the legitimate authority of the community represented by that institution.
	www.claremont.org /projects/local_gov/Newsletter/aristotle.html (2198 words)

	The Archive of the New Urbanism
		The Archive of the New Urbanism is intended to provide a record of the initiation and evolution of the New Urbanism as seen in projects, articles, books, research, compendia, notes, and other materials.
		The New Urbanism is an interdisciplinary movement whose goals are to promote urban reinvestment and alternatives to suburban sprawl.
		The principles of the movement were articulated in 1994 in the Charter of the New Urbanism.
	www.arc.miami.edu /school/New_Urbanism_Archive/Archive_index.html (562 words)

	Interview on New Urbanism
		New Urbanism is not utopian and does not impose social master plans.
		Traditional detailing generally has to do with resolving practical problems of building in an elegant way, whereas style is really the quality with which you master what are technological issues.
		What we have to point out to modernists again and again is that in democracies even architecture and urbanism are a matter of choice, and are not metaphysical constraints or absolutes of their own making.
	luciensteil.tripod.com /katarxis02-1/id23.html (1096 words)

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	www.nowpublic.com /tag/urbanism (392 words)

	City Mayors: New Urbanism
		The New Urbanism design movement hails from the US and is a term attributed to the school of thought which emerged in the late 1980s that sought to harness principles of liveability and diversity in the way urban space is designed and managed.
		Furthermore, the advocates of New Urbanism are critical of housing provision in the form of large-scale social housing for the poor and a lack of diversity for everyone else.
		In the US, the movement is led by the Congress for a New Urbanism (CNU), which despite the presence of the word ‘new’ in its title, is in fact directly influenced by the garden city movement of the UK known as the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA).
	www.citymayors.com /environment/new_urbanism.html (1803 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'New urbanism' embraces Latinos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Amid a suburban county's gated communities, three-car garages and megamalls, Santa Ana is a fledgling hub of "new urbanism," an increasingly popular antidote to sprawl that promotes dense, walkable neighborhoods where people live, work and play.
		Latino new urbanism is taking hold in California and Texas, the nation's two most populous states and the ones with the largest numbers of Hispanics.
		Latino new urbanism has gotten the attention of Henry Cisneros, former secretary of Housing and Urban Development and now the chairman of American CityVista in San Antonio.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2005-02-15-latinos-usat_x.htm (1213 words)

	Metroactive Features \| New Urbanism
		Briefly and in short (not to mention in summary), the principle of new urbanism is to erect fabricated "small towns" with an increased density of friendly residential neighborhoods, schools right down the block and happy residents harmoniously living, working and playing, all within walking (or skipping) radius of their home.
		Baby new urbanism was given birth by Miami-based architects Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, who won recognition in the early '80s for their Florida coastal development knighted Seaside.
		In abidance with the architectural rules of new urbanism, neighborhoods are within walking distance to the town square, with narrow streets to reduce the influx of cars.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/11.06.03/evergreen-0345.html (4046 words)

	The Seaside Institute - New Urbanism
		The principles of the New Urbanism underlie The Institute’s approach to bettering civic life.
		As expressed by The Congress for the New Urbanism, "The built environment must be diverse in use and population; must be scaled for the pedestrian, yet capable of accommodating the auto and mass transit and must have a well-defined public realm supported by an architecture reflecting the ecology and culture of the region.
		New Urbanism communities seek to bring to their residents new opportunities to experience neighborliness in their personal lives and facilitate greater participation in the life of the community.
	www.theseasideinstitute.org /page.aspx?s=8629.0.79.7801 (208 words)

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