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Charrettes
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Chapter 12 of the New Urbanism Best Practices Guide
New Urbanism challenges development conventions, including codes, transportation standards, and finance mechanisms. It also challenges people’s perceptions about growth, arguing, for example, that “density done right can make things better.” For these reasons, new urbanists recognize that everyone affected by the outcome should be included in the planning effort from the beginning. Thus the three-phase process in which the charrette is the central transformative event.

Who will opt for a green community?
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New Urban News Article, 1/1/2008
Andres Duany identifies four main target groups and their outlooks.
To produce sustainable buildings and communities, it’s important to know who would like to live in them. Andres Duany identifies four target markets, which differ in outlook and personality. At the Green Architecture and Urbanism Council, he presented profiles of the four groups and discussed how to appeal to each of them:

The “flagship” of new urban streets
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New Urban News Article with images and sidebar, 9/1/2002
A comprehensive new book on boulevards offers important new findings and is destined to be a classic work on the design of an important and long-neglected street type.
If any street deserves to be built more extensively than has been its fate for the past 70 years, that street is the boulevard. And now research has been completed that lays a compelling basis for the boulevard’s reintroduction throughout North America.

In Amish country, TND suffers a setback
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New Urban News Article with images, 3/1/2008
Lancaster County has a regional plan that supports smart growth and many projects underway, but one township may have gone too far too fast.
Two major new urbanist plans were shot down when a traditional neighborhood development (TND) ordinance failed to win approval near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in January. It’s not clear what will happen to the Independence and Lime Spring projects in East Hempfield Township — but if they had been approved as previously submitted, they could have served as models of TND in central Pennsylvania.