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this feels racist somehow

if you are here for school you can contact me

whos also here for school?

This spot aired on US networks.

No thanks and with the Covid19 virus sweeping the planet I would want more space between me and my neighbors not less. This is a nightmare not utopia.

Great commercial & true back then and still funny as hell now!

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I grew up in the dense Randstad area of Holland, where they're been applying their own type of NU in the past 40 years. They were worried that the cities were going to fuse into a big, ungovernable sprawling mess that would swallow all the countryside and forests, so they established new villages (New growth centres). It wasn't just establishing new villages in places, but also the decision of, instead of expanding the suburbs of a city, expanding the suburban capacity of surrounding, old villages. There was even one village they purposefully grew into a city. To accommodate urban overflow from neighbouring cities. As a result, you totally don't have the impression you're living in one of the most crowded regions on earth. Instead, I could walk for 15 mins and look out over meadows and woods as far as the horizon, all around my town. Things were also really close together, so I could cycle to the city in 30 mins or take public transport, which has an urban level of service coverage. It was also not far to the sea, and there are lakes next to the town. Great place, actually :)

If you like it, then congradulations and enjoy, but I find these communities to be just as fake, superfically and soul destroying as the suburbs and citys these eliteist claim to be replacing, I plan to move out to a rural area where if purchase land you can build on it and do as you see fit. Now that is just my opinion, if you love your new urban community more power to you and I hope you enjoy, Just don't try to force your choice of lifestyle and community on me.

A video for anyone interested in sustainable, vibrant communities.

I think about housing a lot, especially after teaching English in South Korea for two years. Not one of my students ever lived in an individual house, and that was not a desired lifestyle anyway. There, people want an apartment prefabbed from a super conglomerate and only in a high-rise, not a low-rise, the latter of which is considered low-class. The problem with so much identical housing is that rivalries ensue. -"tarotworldtour"

New Urbanism isn't meant to address modern cities, it's addressing suburban sprawl by designing livable, walkable communities. The Kentlands was designed for a mix of incomes but has become more upscale because it works so well -- the law of supply and demand at work, there is only one community like it in the region and people like it, so the prices of homes inside Kentlands have appreciated much more than the surrounding homes. It's nice living in a town where people know each other.

These "towns" are just a place for rich white people to move away from poverty. Of course every one's happy, no one lives there but upper middle class people. This town looks no different than the utopia pictured in movies like its a Wonderful Life. New Urbanism doesn't address the issues of modern cities, save maybe walkability. It just proposes we all live in the 1950's.

@Cyrus992 Remember the reason LA doesn't have streetcars. During the period from 1936 to 1950, National City Lines and Pacific City Lines-with investment from GM, Firestone Tire, Standard Oil of California, Phillips Petroleum, Mack Trucks, and the Federal Engineering Corporation-bought over 100 electric surface-traction systems in 45 cities including Baltimore, Newark, Los Angeles, New York City, Oakland and San Diego and converted them into bus operation. So much for the free market...

"fake towns"?? SUBURBIA is the one that's fake, not NU.

Can anyone name the games in this ad I know one of them is Juipetar lander

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@MrJudube WTF is with people and the " american dream"? There is NO american dream. That's just some made up thing they used so people would move to the suburbs

the landing game is cool

If you're gonna build a happy community with fine homes, Don,t build them with the same materials that everyone else uses, and all the homes will look like something out of a cheesy display. Thats what they mean by fake. Do the fine old neighborhoods that those people 100 years ago look cheesy? no. They weren't all built at the same time. To build perfect homes they need to be custom, no plastic columns, fences, or siding. But the social community Seems to be perfect.

I'm a 24 year old geography student. New Urbanism is the way of the future. I don't want to live in a suburb.

Hi, this is great and as a land use planner I see the benefit and I was raised in the old row homes in Louisville. I also design walkable communities as well and have a new 5 minute video at otis31755 or geo-life.org

I love the new urbanism and tnd.

Not every suburb is a hellhole...I'm tired of that urban elitism. The one I grew up in was safe, friendly, and quaint, with access to good education, food, and plenty of culture. I do welcome the more distinctive architecture of new urbanism, but not everyone can afford these more expensive houses/locales. However, the "Oh, those new urban towns aren't 'real' towns" perspective is annoying, condescending, and ridiculous.

So glad to hear that sprawl isn't going to go away. I was getting a little scared it might be in danger.

:O i love this music

feels strange... those guys promote this WOL as the new way to go and in europe we know nothing else. these sprawl suburbs show what horrible can happen if gasoline is sold to people for next to nothing over 60 years! they are the real fake-towns. I think theyre rather made for cars than for people.

The suburban lifestyle is the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.

@Cyrus992 No, she should actually be stopping sprawl. We can't turn the Earth into a city.

I am ALL for this type of development...BUT in reality most people don't have the resource$ to demand or purchase sensible development. Most people take what is built...and guess what is being built? I almost wish a meteor would fall and wipe out a huge swath of suburbia so we could start over...(No, not really).

The design of the homes, neighborhoods, architecture, and public transit of the 1920's-30's was just about ideal, and I'm glad to see that there is hope that we will return to that sort of neighborhood. Look at any of the closer-in suburbs of a large, older city in the USA, and you'll find sensibly sized houses with beautiful arched windows, covered front porches, within walking distance to schools, small stores, and old streetcar lines.

Honestly, people do live there, and people do run real lives, and real successes but these towns really are fake. You know what it is? It is a suburbia with a newurban facade to disguise the suburbia it really is. These designs are safe and diffident to make a change.

Why would anyone say they aren't real towns?? What? A bunch of cookie cutter huge ass houses in the middle of nowhere is a "real town?" The best amenity they offer is quick access to the freeway and the Walmart half a mile away.

the funny thing about NU is the communities are looked on as great places and southern NU developments are visited often for vacation by suburbanites and they dont fight to have those built everywh. one of my favorite sprawl-bashing authors is James Howard Kunstler. his 'home from nowhere' and 'geography of nowhere' books offer amazing thoughts and incite on the subject of sprawl. they are written with pretty humorous wit too. i feel like you would appreciate them if you don't already have them!

Cyrus: I'm not exactly sure how sprawl should be fazed out; whether it be with new regulations or by letting free market take over. my one concern with the market approach is that globalized corps like walmart and mcdonalds already have too much power and influence on americans' lives and how development is shaped. sadly, i feel that people just accept the sprawl lifestyle without thinking that there are better ways. i fear that people may be too lazy or scared to seek new ways to live

cyrus992, you put up some very good points and i think i gave everyone a thumbs up haha The government is responsible for zoning laws but i think its important to note that it is the LOCAL governments that really control these things. bureaus and counties primarily, a few states (north carolina's comes to mind) but the federal government has left zoning codes alone. recently though, the HUD, EPA, and the DOT have created the Partnership for Sustainable Communities. you should check it out.

cyrus992 - the government already gives us nonsense rules and regulations on planning... it's called single-use zoning. it pretty much makes it ILLEGAL to create traditional style neighborhoods and forces developers to instead create the seperated residential zones with wide streets and low densities, strip malls with gargantuan parking lots on 4-lane highways, and office 'parks' that are as close to a park as is the surface of the moon. that is sprawl, and those regulations are what is nonsense

When you say "unexpected" do you mean a spontaneous streetside BBQ, a gasline break, or an unusual house with wacky features? I know there are some codes there to limit to a colonial style, but they are very open about variety.

The demise of cheap oil will doom suburbia forever... by 2025 a surplus of 22 million suburban homes will be on the market. New urbanism is the only way to go. It's all going to be about sustainability now.

Of all the issues driving sprawl, immigration is probably near the bottom of the list. The big money is in more upscale development. Is there any data to support this argument or is this just an attempt to apply one issue to another for political purposes?

All you greenies who hate urban sprawl need to face the cause: mass immigration. Developments don't just 'form'--IMMIGRANTS (legal and illegal), mostly from developing countries, provide the ever-expanding warm body-supply of fecund foreigners to keep the developers in business. Developers give a LOT of money to parties like the Democrats (and ex-prez Dubya), to liberalize immigration laws. When Mexico implodes, you people are going to end up with a HORRENDOUS immigrant influx/sprawl problem.

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DONT GET FOOLED: American dream: YES. Your OWN idea of utopia? NO! If i wanted my own individual freedom(famous american freedom) to live as i wanted? i just couldnt! it is ONE IDEA that is HOMOGENEOUSELY SPREAD ALL OVER

Yeah the C64 blew the VIC-29 outta the water! I got one when I was 10 years old and didn't stop using (okay, PLAYING) till I hit college! 'sigh' The memories...

NU works if everybody has relatively high incomes and/or are a homogenous group such as Greeks, Italians owning shops or the like. If you look at new urbanism and the like applied in Britian with normal people, you will see a larger crime rate DUE to communal property, common entrances to a home, back alleys etc.

i live in kentlands that place with the chinese characters is call Yo-yogi's

I want to create a New Urbanism Awareness campaign. The movement needs a glossy informational website that can convincingly "sell" the idea of NU to those who are unfamilar with it. Once the knowledge is out there and people realize that they don't have to deal with urban sprawl no more, they'll effectively push down the barriers preventing NU. The major goal right now should be to swell up a critical mass of NU promoters. Only then will change come. Power to the people!

One day New Urbanism will rise like a great Phoenix from the ashes of urban sprawl. Human scale will be revived as will the sense of community that is manifested from it. Our bodies will be healthier, our air cleaner, and our minds more resilant. The ideals and ambitions of our early founders will finally be constructed and America will take it's place among truely great nations. Until that day comes, help spread the word of New Urbanism. Yea!

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