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Pedestrian ways: The passage
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New Urban News Technical Page by Andres Duany, Michael Morrissey, and Patrick Pinnell

Pedestrian paths come in a wide variety and are anything but simple. To  understand their variety and complexity, it is useful to begin by noting  their relationship to other movement systems, and where on the Transect they are typically found.

Principles of human-scale communities
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Chapter 1 of the New Urbanism Best Practices Guide
New Urbanism aims to foster meaningful places. It does so by reviving and adapting ideas and practices that were at the heart of American community-building from the 1600s to the Second World War. Instead of separating various uses, as conventional development has done for the past 70 years, New Urbanism tries to bring housing, shopping, employment, and other uses closer together, often mixing them.

The strategy of time and change
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New Urban News Technical Page by Andres Duany, Michael Morrissey, and Patrick Pinnell

The ability to evolve is among the most important and underestimated differences between conventional zoning and Transect-based development. The social and economic forces at work on places are always changing. It is better to anticipate change and channel it intelligently than to ignore it and ultimately collapse under its force.