PLAN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Florida Panhandle, Kentlands, Gaithersburg, Maryland, Transit-Oriented Development
24 Apr 2016
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Misnomer: originally referred to as neo-traditional planning. Reaction against conventional suburban development with its car orientation, low density, land use specialization, often poor appearance, pedestrian inhospitality. Draw inspiration from lewis mumford and jane jacobs. Tries to reproduce pre-war small town and urban neighbourhood layout, appearance and dynamics. Studies what is appealing and what works in historical towns and tries to reproduce this in a new urbanism. Tries to recreate social environment of old towns and neighbourhoods: neighbourliness: everyone knows everyone else because they all walk around together. Tries to achieve a measure of self-containment: institutions, retailing, services within walking distances. Traditional architecture: models borrowed from nearby towns or older neighbourhoods. Most importantly, deemphasize the presence of the car through design; back lanes w/ garages, parking behind buildings. Variety of housing types (attempts to achieve mixed income), but compatible appearance. Main retail street (as praised by jane jacobs) in original concept. First new urbanism town; development began in 1981.
