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Shaping the region
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Chapter 2 of the New Urbanism Best Practices Guide

Regional or large-scale plans incorporating New Urbanism’s principles have been written to guide development in many places across the US. Examples in this chapter include the Chicago Regional Plan, Envision Utah, Portland 2040 (in Oregon), and the Community Character Plan of Collier County, Florida. Such plans generally uphold the idea that the modern metropolis has multiple centers, should contain identifiable cities, towns, and villages, and should make the neighborhood its basic unit of growth.

A ‘boomburb’ adopts New Urbanism
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New Urban News Article with images, 1/1/2009
A suburban Texas municipality approves one of the largest applications of the SmartCode and is work-ing on a city-wide form-based code.
“Boomburbs,” as described by author Robert Lang, are suburban municipalities topping 100,000 people that have seen double-digit growth for at least three decades in a row. Most boomburbs were rural outposts in 1950, and although you may have not heard of many of them, they have accommodated a disproportionate share of the nation’s growth in the last half-century.

Ideas for Mississippi’s coast ignite enthusiasm, face FEMA resistance
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New Urban News Article with images, 12/1/2005
New urbanist “mega-charrette” calls for boulevards, rail transit, mixed uses, and walkable neighborhoods in a devastated 11-city region.
The people of Mississippi’s Gulf Coast have begun taking a series of previously unfathomable mental leaps, thanks to an extraordinary new urbanist charrette that captured the imagination of the region this fall.