Talk:Examples of New Urbanism

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[edit] Attribution

The term 'New Urbanism' is used as a selling ploy on many developments. For the sake of attribution/verifiability, references should be made to independent sources (ie. academic) that describe the development as new urbanist, and not promotional sources. Also, perhaps a better name for this article would be "List of New Urbanism developments" or "List of developments with New Urbanism influences"? --maclean 07:13, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree that some additional criteria should be used to verify that a development actually meets the majority of the definition of new urbanism. However, this can raise some problems, as there doesn't seem to be a good way to determine whether or not a development really is "new urban." I put this list up as somewhat of a starting point. For those that came from promotional or developers' sites, I tried to glean from their description whether the site is being developed in the "spirit" of new urbanism (which is admittedly very subjective). Scott182 13:19, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

The New_Urbanism article cites a definition, of sorts, from the Congress for the New Urbanism that's helpful:

We advocate the restructuring of public policy and development practices to support the following principles: neighborhoods should be diverse in use and population [a.k.a. mixed use]; communities should be designed for the pedestrian and transit as well as the car; cities and towns should be shaped by physically defined and universally accessible public spaces and community institutions; urban places should be framed by architecture and landscape design that celebrate local history, climate, ecology, and building practice.

Of these criteria, mixed use (residential units of various income levels, office space and retail, all together -- or at least within walking distance of one another) is probably the most objectively verifiable. ô¿ô (talk) 21:22, 24 February 2008 (UTC)