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- From: Michael Winslow Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>
- To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [internetworkers] New Urbanism
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 22:07:27 -0500
On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 04:37 PM, K. Jo Garner wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
->I was happy to stand on a soapbox regarding the area's growth policies.
So, just out of curiousity, why do you live in Southern Village?
there was nothing but land there when I first started coming to CH.
Thanks for asking! This subject could go on and on so I'll try to be succinct.
I'm a proponent of New Urbanism, and I live in Southern Village because its the best example of this type of development in the Triangle. The neighborhood is within the city limits of Chapel Hill, and only a few minutes drive from Carrboro, where I do most of the shopping outside of Market Street. We would have liked to live in a pre-WWII older neighborhood which New Urbanism seeks to reproduce, but the high demand has driven the prices higher than we can afford, which in itself is a big indication there's a marked unmet demand for this type of living environment.
The best book I've found on New Urbanism so far is:
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0865475571/103-4363544-2833441
The emphasis of this book is that all of the reasons that people site for wanting a suburban tract home are in fact not met with that growth pattern, but could be met with growth along a New Urbanism model.
I could ramble at this point, but perhaps its better to simply list the basic principles:
THE PRINCIPLES OF NEW URBANISM (Stolen from newurbanism.org)
1. WALKABILITY
-Most things within a 10-minute walk of home and work
-Pedestrian friendly street design (buildings close to street; porches, windows & doors; tree-lined streets; on street parking; hidden parking lots; garages in rear lane; narrow, slow speed streets)
-Pedestrian streets free of cars in special cases
2. CONNECTIVITY
-Interconnected street grid network disperses traffic & eases walking
-High quality pedestrian network and public realm makes walking pleasurable
3. MIXED-USE & DIVERSITY
-A mix of shops, offices, apartments, and homes on site. Mixed-use within neighborhoods, within blocks, and within buildings
-Diversity of people - of ages, classes, cultures, and races
4. MIXED HOUSING
A range of types, sizes and prices in closer proximity
5. QUALITY ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN
Emphasis on beauty, aesthetics, human comfort, and creating a sense of place; Special placement of civic uses and sites within community. Human scale architecture & beautiful surroundings nourish the human spirit
6. TRADITIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD STRUCTURE
-Discernable center and edge
-Public space at center
-Importance of quality public realm; public open space designed as civic art
-Contains a range of uses and densities within 10-minute walk
-Transect planning: Highest densities at town center; progressively less dense towards the edge. The transect is an analytical system that conceptualizes mutually reinforcing elements, creating a series of specific natural habitats and/or urban lifestyle settings. The Transect integrates environmental methodology for habitat assessment with zoning methodology for community design. The professional boundary between the natural and man-made disappears, enabling environmentalists to asses the design of the human habitat and the urbanists to support the viability of nature. This urban-to-rural transect hierarchy has appropriate building and street types for each area along the continuum.
7. INCREASED DENSITY
-More buildings, residences, shops, and services closer together for ease of walking, to enable a more efficient use of services and resources, and to create a more convenient, enjoyable place to live.
-New Urbanism design principles are applied at the full range of densities from small towns, to large cities
8. SMART TRANSPORTATION
-A network of high-quality trains connecting cities, towns, and neighborhoods together
-Pedestrian-friendly design that encourages a greater use of bicycles, rollerblades, scooters, and walking as daily transportation
9. SUSTAINABILITY
-Minimal environmental impact of development and its operations
-Eco-friendly technologies, respect for ecology and value of natural systems
-Energy efficiency
-Less use of finite fuels
-More local production
-More walking, less driving
10. QUALITY OF LIFE
Taken together these add up to a high quality of life well worth living, and create places that enrich, uplift, and inspire the human spirit.
___________________________________________________________________
No place better demonstrates the worst aspects of both the American
character and public policy than the nation's highways.
-- michael at czeiszperger dot org, Chapel Hill, NC
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Re: [internetworkers] Re: Uzi knitting at Caffe Driade?
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- Re: [internetworkers] Re: Uzi knitting at Caffe Driade?, Paul Jones, 01/06/2003
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Re: [internetworkers] Re: Uzi knitting at Caffe Driade?,
burnett, 01/06/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] Re: Uzi knitting at Caffe Driade?, Thomas C. Meggs, 01/06/2003
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Re: [internetworkers] Re: Uzi knitting at Caffe Driade?,
David R. Matusiak, 01/06/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] Re: Uzi knitting at Caffe Driade?, Thomas C. Meggs, 01/07/2003
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Re: [internetworkers] Re: Uzi knitting at Caffe Driade?,
Michael Winslow Czeiszperger, 01/06/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] Re: Uzi knitting at Caffe Driade?, Steven Champeon, 01/07/2003
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Re: [internetworkers] Uzi on the cover of the N&O?,
uzoma nwosu, 01/06/2003
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Re: [internetworkers] Uzi on the cover of the N&O?,
Michael Czeiszperger, 01/06/2003
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Re: [internetworkers] Uzi on the cover of the N&O?,
K. Jo Garner, 01/06/2003
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Re: [internetworkers] New Urbanism,
Michael Winslow Czeiszperger, 01/06/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] New Urbanism, Kristen James Eberlein, 01/06/2003
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Re: [internetworkers] New Urbanism,
Jason Tower, 01/06/2003
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RE: [internetworkers] New Urbanism,
Bill Geschwind, 01/07/2003
- RE: [internetworkers] New Urbanism, Diane M. Kurilecz, 01/07/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] New Urbanism, Michael Winslow Czeiszperger, 01/07/2003
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RE: [internetworkers] New Urbanism,
Bill Geschwind, 01/07/2003
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Re: [internetworkers] New Urbanism,
Josep L. Guallar-Esteve, 01/06/2003
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Re: [internetworkers] New Urbanism,
Thomas C. Meggs, 01/07/2003
- RE: [internetworkers] New Urbanism, Diane M. Kurilecz, 01/07/2003
- RE: [internetworkers] New Urbanism, Thomas C. Meggs, 01/07/2003
- RE: [internetworkers] New Urbanism, Thomas Beckett, 01/07/2003
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Re: [internetworkers] New Urbanism,
Thomas C. Meggs, 01/07/2003
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Re: [internetworkers] New Urbanism,
Michael Winslow Czeiszperger, 01/06/2003
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Re: [internetworkers] Uzi on the cover of the N&O?,
K. Jo Garner, 01/06/2003
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Re: [internetworkers] Uzi on the cover of the N&O?,
Michael Czeiszperger, 01/06/2003
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