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#1 ·
These are master-planned towns built in the New Urbanism Style

Background

New Urbanism is an urban design movement which promotes walkable neighborhoods containing a range of housing and job types. It arose in the United States in the early 1980s, and has gradually informed many aspects of real estate development, urban planning, and municipal land-use strategies.
- Wikipedia

These are examples of New Urbanism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examples_of_New_Urbanism
 
#9 ·
Quite the opposite really.

NEW URBANISM promotes the creation and restoration of diverse, walkable, compact, vibrant, mixed-use communities composed of the same components as conventional development, but assembled in a more integrated fashion, in the form of complete communities. These contain housing, work places, shops, entertainment, schools, parks, and civic facilities essential to the daily lives of the residents, all within easy walking distance of each other. New Urbanism promotes the increased use of trains and light rail, instead of more highways and roads. Urban living is rapidly becoming the new hip and modern way to live for people of all ages. Currently, there are over 4,000 New Urbanist projects planned or under construction in the United States alone, half of which are in historic urban centers.

http://www.newurbanism.org/newurbanism.html
New Urbanism is a wonderful movement. Hope to see lots of info, pics and contributions in this thread.

A couple more articles of interest:

[URL="http://newurbanismblog.com/"]New Urbanism blog[/URL]

[URL="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/23/business/la-fi-himi-polyzoides-20110123"]Livable cities[/URL]
 
#8 ·
Fake or just different? :)
 
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#12 ·
^^ You're welcome musiccity. I'm a huge fan too. If anyone gave New Urbanism some consideration they'd realise how brilliant it really is.

Please keep posting. People need to learn more about this wonderful movement that can help create better living environments for everyone on the planet. :cheers:
 
#13 ·
The styles in Prospect New Town look vibrant and welcoming. If Prospect Town is the model for New Urbanism I believe it'll be an attractive alternative to surban sprawl. There's enough privacy with single story homes with density for easy commute to stores and community centers.
 
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#19 ·
The Netherlands put up a national program in the mid-1980s to build 20-30 of these downs.

It was a program aimed at building "new room" for the Dutch population (Netherlands was suffering a severe shortage of housing as household size had shrunk and many more people were living by themselves or as single parents etc)

The philosophies of these towns (VINEX) was:
- building them close to mass transit (train lines, subways)
- providing different housing options
- offering spaces for new architectural forms that played with water, "rough green" etc.
- being located close enough to big cities to act as escape valves for demographic pressures in these towns

They have unique looking and awesome design.

My city is the location of one of them, De Reeshof

(Google MAps)

View within the region (yellow: build-out official urban areas including industrial parks)


Master plan


The street plan is build with just a few through-streets. The rest allows only easy crossing for pedestrians and bikes, there are 11km of segregated bike paths within the project.

Single-detached houses with backyard canal

(C) Cast

Row houses

(c) Cast

More semi-detached houses, with "bike priority" street design

(c) Cast

Single-detached houses (just 5% of the development provide this typology)

(c) Cubra


"Anti-traffic" typical measure: cars can't take shortcuts


New school (opened 2013)


Low rise flat area


Community center


Aerial view of area still to be developed (train station Tilburg Reeshof, that serves the development, can be on lower right)

(c) NieuwbouwTilburg


More low-rises


Sports' center



The commercial center (location Google Maps), it is nice, but I hate they built flats over the stores, makes it look bad
 
#22 ·
Here are notes about New Urbanism from my architecture class:

A type of compact neighborhood design
pioneered by Miami architects Andres Duany
and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. New Urbanism
replaces the typical suburban subdivision with
more diverse environments which mix
residential and commercial buildings
hypothetically providing a walkable community
where people live, work and play.
 
#23 ·
Jakriborg, Sweden

Jakriborg by Anders Bengtsson, auf Flickr

Jakriborg 3 by Peter Hillhagen, auf Flickr

Jakriborg by Anders Bengtsson, auf Flickr


Poundbury, UK

Poundbury by diamond geezer, auf Flickr

Poundbury_ALL0068 by JonathanLClarke, auf Flickr

Poundbury_ALL0103 by JonathanLClarke, auf Flickr


Brandevoort, Netherlands

brandevoort, Helmond by Gerben of the lake, auf Flickr

Brandevoort by Jeroen Mul, auf Flickr

Brandevoort by Jeroen Mul, auf Flickr + https://flic.kr/p/rqakyU


There's various more New Urbanist settlements like that in Europe, all new.
Like Le-Plessis Robinson near Paris. But nothing's like the theme park stuff you find in China.
 
#31 ·
Fabulous additions Notgnirracen! Thank you.
I just love New Urbanism when done right. It so often goes hand in hand with wonderful, sustainable and human-scale architecture. Developing countries should use it way more often, they are the ones that create new cities all the time - and do so much wrong all the time.

Let's keep this thread alive, it's an amazing topic! :eek:kay:
 
#34 ·
Developing countries should use it way more often, they are the ones that create new cities all the time - and do so much wrong all the time.
Yep, that makes me think of a plan by Duany Plater-Zyberk for the gradual development of a city block in Haiti. The proposal was made shortly after the earthquake, but it hasn't been implemented.

City Block

Port au Prince, Haiti











 
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