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Article: Putting people back into architecture.(Features)(Ideas)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- April 5, 2001
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Americans are rethinking their cities. Chicago is tearing down its low-income housing projects. Houston is building a new transit system. Community organizations across the country are combating suburban sprawl.
The New Urbanist movement is influencing all of the above. It's a philosophy of architecture and urban planning that calls for the construction and reconstruction of communities around the pedestrian and the neighborhood, rather than the automobile.
Prof. Vincent Scully, an architecture historian at Yale University, is a pioneer in the movement. He traces the origins of New Urbanism to the New England town and shows that the traditional ...