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Policy
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Chapter 23 of the New Urbanism Best Practices Guide

Abstract: In some places, new urbanists have been able to build compact, walkable, mixed-use developments without government policies encouraging or mandating this form of growth. But often New Urbanism stands a better chance of being implemented when governments set the stage. This chapter focuses on “smart growth” policies.

New urbanists step up their progress toward ‘green’ design
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New Urban News Article with images, graphs, tables, sidebars, 1/1/2008
A council highlights green architecture initiatives of the New Urbanism while the trend gains recognition for fighting greenhouse gas emissions.
The inherently climate-friendly aspects of New Urbanism have recently attracted a burst of public attention, at the same time that new urbanist designers and developers have increasingly incorporated environmentally advanced energy and stormwater technology into their projects.

Urban growth boundary did not make Portland unaffordable
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New Urban News Article, 3/1/2005
New figures undercut claims that the Oregon region’s housing costs have gone out of sight.
For the past several years, opponents of “smart growth” policies have insisted that Portland, Oregon’s urban growth boundary has made the region a much less affordable place to buy a house. But it now appears that the critics’ arguments relied to a large degree on figures that were wrong.