New Urbanism: The potential of new planned communities based on traditional models

Helen Lochhead / 1997

Community Development, Planning & Urban Design
Australia, United States

New Urbanism proposes an alternative (planning) scenario for new planned communities based on successful traditional neighbourhoods and small towns by combining the best of the past with the realities and benefits of today. In doing so New Urbanism purports to address many of the problems of the existing suburban paradigm: environmental degradation, physical and social isolation, private transport dependency and lack of housing affordability.

The author studies these emerging trends in the design of new communities in the United States to develop a compendium of ‘well-designed’ traditional and newly planned communities which could serve as models for the Australian context.

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