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19 Nov 09

CoolTown Studios: "19 urban development types for creatives"

So, "...what would be the 19 urban development types for the creatives that fuel the knowledge economy? Here’s one look at it, based on a list initially produced by renowned urbanist Andres Duany:"
A. Primarily Commercial Mixed-Use Buildings
1. Pedestrian-Only Town Center Retail Entertainment Grouping;
2. Standard Town Center Retail Entertainment Grouping
3. Neighborhood Center Retail Entertainment Grouping
4. Triple Mixed-Use Flat
5. Triple Mixed-Use Mid-Rise
B. Primarily Residential Mixed-Use Buildings
6. Mixed-Use Loft Apartment Mid-Rise
7. Mixed-Use Loft Apartment Flat
8. Mixed-Use Mini-Condo Mid-Rise
9. Loft Apartment House
10. Live-Work Units
C. Exclusively Residential Buildings
11. Loft Apartment House
12. Courtyard Apartments
13. Townhouses with an Ancillary Building
14. Green-fronting Townhouses
15. Paseo Housing Grouping
16. The Inn
D. Exclusively Commercial Buildings
17. Loft Office Mid-Rise
18. Avenue Office Grouping
19. Urban Villa

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28 Apr 08

New Urbanists Point the Way Forward by Catesby Leigh, City Journal 18 April 2008

"The New Urbanism and suburban sprawl have something in common: they’re uncool. New Urbanism is uncool because it is basically traditional; modernism is still the thing in architecture, notes Andrés Duany, the most influential New Urbanist."

For some reason, City Journal is impossible to annotate (neither highlights and consequently "stickies" work), which is too bad. Some good ideas in this article, but I can't mark it up.

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  • To make the most of these changing public preferences, the New Urbanists need to focus on a vision that supports the resurgence of an architectural culture—which is precisely what we haven’t got now.
  • Perhaps the New Urbanists should cherish their outsider status. A gifted crew of architects and planners, they have changed the conversation about urban planning in the United States. They reject conventional postwar developers’ essentially quantitative, two-dimensional, single-use-oriented blueprints for residential subdivisions and office parks in favor of a qualitative, three-dimensional, mixed-use approach to designing neighborhoods and towns that generally involves reliance on traditional architectural styles.
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