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What is New Urbanism?
Starting in the early 1980’s as an idea to create compact, pedestrian friendly mixed-use diverse developments has now matured into the perferred alternative to the cookie cutter, look-alike surburban tract development.
The are several hundred successful examples of New Urbanist developments around the country, with the most right here in Florida. Also called “Neo-Tradtional development” (TND) people of all ages find living within a TND a much more rewarding and fullfilling.
The Charter of the Congress for New Urbanism – CNU defines New Urbansim as follows, “We advocate the restructuring of public policy and development practices to support the following principles: neighborhoods should be diverse in use and population; communities should be designed for the pedestrian and transit as well as the car; cities and towns should be shaped by physically defined and universally accessible public spaces and community institutions; urban places should be framed by architecture and landscape design that celebrate local history, climate, ecology, and building practice.”
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Sarasota New Urbanism
Devin has been a student of the New Urbanism since 1990 and continues to be an outspoken advocate of the ideals and principles and championed the City of Sarasota’s Downtown Master Plan 2020 to include the principles of New Urbanism in all new development. |
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