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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.

Coping with economic crisis: how new urbanists are responding
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New Urban News Article with images, 7/1/2009

Subdividing homesites, writing form-based codes, and assigning white-collar staff to blue-collar jobs are three of the many courses of action.

Roughly 10 months into the world economic crisis, hardly anyone in the new urbanist fold remains unscathed. Architects, builders, developers, planners, lawyers — many have seen their work decrease, their incomes shrink, their projects cut back or cancelled.

New Urbanism abroad
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Chapter 24 of the New Urbanism Best Practices Guide

Abstract: Born in the US, New Urbanism has expanded into a global movement. This chapter looks at how New Urbanism has been implemented in other countries. Because of the stronger role of government overseas, frequently the work there is done at a larger scale, sometimes encompassing an entire downtown, city, or region. In some countries, governments require new developments to accommodate substantial employment and to house a sizable proportion of low- and moderate-income residents.

New Urbanism in the new millennium
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Chapter 3 of the New Urbanism Best Practices Guide

New Urbanism has been applied to an ever more diverse array of settings in the three decades since Seaside was planned on the Florida Panhandle and Battery Park City was replanned in New York. Seaside showed how to revive many of the best elements of small-town design. Battery Park City, with its requirements for consistent street-walls and open space showed how large, dense urban precincts could respect human scale and enhance the public realm.

So far, new urban projects weather downturn better
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New Urban News Article with images, 10/1/2007
Product diversity, closeness to transit, and the appeal of urban living help offset the biggest housing decline in years.
Sales of new housing slowed in August to the most laggard pace in seven years, and some conventional homebuilders reported losing tens of millions of dollars per quarter. New urban projects, however, have kept chugging along — many of them marginally affected by the market’s decline.

Financial crisis hits New Urbanism
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New Urban News Article with images and sidebars, 12/1/2008
Economic troubles spread from housing to other development sectors, including retail and offices.
From one end of the US to the other, new urbanists are entering tough times, thanks to the combination of a severe credit squeeze and a rapidly deteriorating national economy.

Where New Urbanism is strong — and where it’s weak
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New Urban News Article with tables, 6/1/2008
The New Urbanism is growing nationwide, but in some places more than others, an analysis of the movement’s geographical distribution shows.
Fifteen years after its official founding, New Urbanism remains a planning and design movement that’s distributed very unevenly across the country.