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Its creators and
defenders, Peter Katz and Peter Calthorpe , propose to stop
and control the chaotic evolution of the American cities by creating
new communities mimicking the patterns and configurations of small 1920’s
towns.
They praise car free
cities, diversity of people, housing, functions,
better
environment, limited size town, public space… They work
for better liveability!
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| Celebration, Florida- Disney |
Celebration,
Florida- Disney
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| Seaside, Florida- DPZ |
Celebration, Florida- Disney
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Their view of urbanism
is to attract people out of existing cities, plagued with pollution,
urban sprawl, extensive highways, and crime, and start over. Just
start over as easy as it sounds, take a brand new page and design your
very own community… It's the Moderns' Tabula Rasa . The same very
Moderns heavily criticized by the Neo Modernist embracing New Urbanism.
Numerous people such as
Alex Marshall and David
Harvey have written about the fact that New Urbanism does not
work. It is only a slight improvement of the Suburbia. Projects like Sea
Side, Florida and Kentlands, Maryland, designed by Miami-area Andres Duany
and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk ( DPZ) are nice subdivisions composed of good
looking wooden buildings on each side of the streets leading to the sea.
Sounds like a success…
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