NEW URBANISM

NEW URBANISM
Formed by the
CONGRESS for NEW
URBANISM (CNU)

Founders: Andres
Duany, Elizabeth Plater-
Zyberk, Peter
Calthorpe, Peter Katz,
Daniel Solomon, among
others
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“The Congress for the New Urbanism views disinvestment in

central cities, the spread of placeless sprawl, increasing
separation by race and income, environmental
deterioration, loss of agricultural lands and wilderness, and
the erosion of society's built heritage as one interrelated
community-building challenge”.
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NEW URBANISM
Cities and towns should
be shaped by physically
defined and universally
accessible public
spaces and
community
institutions;
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NEW URBANISM
Urban places should be
framed by architecture and
landscape design that
celebrate local history,
climate, ecology, and
building practice.
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NEW URBANISM
Infill development which
conserves environmental
resources, economic
investment, and the social
fabric, while reclaiming
marginal and abandoned
areas, should be
encouraged.
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NEW URBANISM
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NEW URBANISM
Cities and towns should
bring into proximity a broad
spectrum of public and
private uses to support a
regional economy that
benefits people of all
incomes.
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NEW URBANISM
Affordable housing should
be distributed throughout
the region to match job
opportunities and to avoid
concentrations of poverty.
these three are the
fundamental organizing
elements of New Urbanism
neighborhoods are
urbanized areas with a
balanced mix of human
activity
districts are areas
dominated by a single
activity
corridors are connectors
and separators of
neighborhoods and districts
the form of New Urbanism
is realized by the deliberate
assembly of streets,
blocks, and buildings
streets are not the dividing
lines within a city, but are to
be communal rooms and
passages
blocks are the field on
which unfolds both the
building fabric and the
public realm of the city

buildings are the smallest

increment of growth in the
city
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GUIDELINES
The neighborhood has a
discernible center and/ or a
focal point

Most of the dwellings are

within a five-minute walk of
the center, an average of
roughly 600 to 700 meters
(2,000 feet)
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GUIDELINES
Within neighborhoods, a broad
range of housing types and
price levels can bring people of
diverse ages, races, and
incomes into daily interaction,
strengthening the personal and
civic bonds essential to an
authentic community.
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NEW URBANISM
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GUIDELINES
A mix of land uses should be
provided for energy efficiency
and practical convenience
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NEW URBANISM
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NEW URBANISM
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GUIDELINES
Interconnected
networks of streets
should be designed
to encourage
walking, reduce the
number and length
of automobile trips,
and conserve
energy.
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GUIDELINES
A grid pattern
disperses traffic by
providing a variety
of pedestrian and
vehicular routes to
any destination
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GUIDELINES
Schools should be sized
and located to enable
children to walk or bicycle
to them.
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NEW URBANISM
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GUIDELINES
A range of parks, from
totlots and village greens
to ballfields and community
gardens, should be
distributed within
neighborhoods
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GUIDELINES
Streets and sidewalks
should be covered with
rows of trees and other
landscaping elements that
provide shade to
pedestrians and create an
overall pleasant
environment

On-street parallel parking

should be encouraged
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GUIDELINES
Sidewalks should be wide,
at least 3.0 meters, and
free from dangerous
obstructions except for
landscaping elements and
street furniture that invite
pedestrians to sit.

Storefronts should be built

close to the sidewalk, with
wide window openings and
visible entrances that are
inviting to the pedestrian
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GUIDELINES
Buildings in the
neighborhood center are
placed close to the street,
creating a well-defined
“outdoor room”.

Prominent sites at the

termination of street vistas
or in the neighborhood
center are reserved for
civic buildings.
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GUIDELINES
Parking lots and garage
doors should not front the
street. Parking is relegated
to underground, to
multilevel structures, or to
the rear of buildings,
accessed by alleys.
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NEW URBANISM
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GUIDELINES
Where there are bays,
lakes, and rivers, build
facing the water
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GUIDELINES
The neighborhood is
organized to be self-
governing. A formal
association debates and
decides matters of
maintenance, security and
physical change.