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Article: Pedestrians, pocket parks and power savings: New Urbanist communities are becoming popular in Colorado, but how they are defined differs by project.
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- ColoradoBiz
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- June 1, 2007
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"New Urbanist Project Construction Starts Soar," enthused the influential New Urban News in 2001. Among the 50 states in the journal's survey, California led the way. But Colorado paced the Rocky Mountain region, with "15 NU communities and neighborhoods ... under construction," a number that today seems laughable.
Fifteen? Just 15? You call that "soaring"? ColoradoBiz counts perhaps two score developments in one stage or another that call themselves "New Urbanist" and probably are.
Colorado's New Urbanist communities, or developments, are multiplying faster than jackrabbits in spring. The question quickly becomes, what is a New Urbanist development, ...